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The 1945—1946 strike established a strategy, forged by then-UAW president Walter Reuther, to target efforts on a single company. Since the 1950s, UAW has faced declining union membership and a growing service sector, reducing the economic impact that a strike could have. [15] In 2019, UAW autoworkers went on strike against
Since the UAW strike began on Sept. 15, more than 45,000 UAW workers have gone on strike across the nation.. GM makes many of its best-selling vehicles in Arlington, including Chevrolet Tahoes and ...
The latest expansion will mean that about 25,000 of the UAW’s 146,000 members will be on strike as the walkout continues. Fain started a Facebook Live broadcast almost 30 minutes past its ...
The strike will initially target GM’s Wentzville Assembly plant in Missouri, Stellantis’ Toledo Assembly in Ohio and Ford’s Michigan Assembly in Wayne, Mich., Fain announced on a live stream ...
The UAW was highly critical of the plant’s closure and now says Stellantis is using the plant’s future as a “bargaining chip.” United Auto Workers members strike at the Ford Michigan ...
The UAW expanded its scope to include workers in other major industries such as the aerospace and agricultural-implement industries. The UAW disaffiliated from the AFL–CIO on July 1, 1968, after Reuther and AFL–CIO President George Meany could not come to agreement on a wide range of policy issues or reforms to AFL–CIO governance. [33]
Striking union members are eligible for $500 a week from the union’s strike fund. If all 145,000 UAW members among the three automakers were to strike at the same time, it could cost the fund ...
As the deadline passed with no new contract proposal, the workers went on strike on October 14, 2021. [10] At the plant in Milan, Illinois, strikers almost immediately began picketing, [10] and UAW President Ray Curry voiced his support for the strike, saying, "The almost one million UAW retirees and active members stand in solidarity with the striking UAW members at John Deere."