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The Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Building, locally called the "Boat Building", is a notable Modernist office building located on Constitution Plaza in Hartford, Connecticut. Designed by Max Abramovitz and completed in 1963, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is the world's first two-sided building.
The UAW's fortunes began to improve after it began organizing on an industrial basis. The union found rapid success with the sitdown strike, a tactic where workers "sit down" at their work stations to occupy a factory. [14] Sitdown strikes enabled small numbers of workers to interrupt the assembly line and stop production across an entire plant ...
United States Postal Service workers other than letter carriers. 2022: NPMHU: Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) 1892 190,000 Mass transit service workers. 2022: ATU: American Nurses Association (ANU) 1897 152,294 Professional association for registered nurses. ANA: International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) 1893 160,000 ...
Employees for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan strike in front of their two office towers at the Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023.
Faria noted that UAW president Ron Gettelfinger agreed to have the UAW's "all-in" wage, benefit and pension costs drop from a high of $75.86 per hour in 2007 to an average of about $51 per hour starting in 2010. By comparison, the CAW's cost per hour was $77 in 2007 and will rise to over $80 per hour by the end of the new contract.
The contract, based on a UAW contract with Caterpillar Inc., included job security for 90 percent of employees, health and life insurance, retirement pension, profit sharing, maintained cost-of-living adjustments, and a one-time payment of $735 (equivalent to US$1,970 in 2023). However, it did not change general wage rates.
The Connecticut General Life Insurance Company Headquarters is a commercial office complex at 900 Cottage Grove Road in Bloomfield, Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 27, 2010. [1]
In 1947, Ford had offered its workers a choice between a contributory pension plan and wage increases. While the UAW took wage increases at the time, Reuther suspected that Ford might be most amenable to a pension plan. [11] New management and an aging workforce at Ford also suggested that the UAW would have the best chances of success with ...