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Both the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the American Federation of Labor had each chartered a labor union for auto workers, both named the UAW. The UAW-CIO met in Cleveland, representing 370,000 members, and elected R. J. Thomas, who was a former Chrysler worker and the former Vice President of the UAW-AFL union.
While the union has been on strike against all three unionized automakers for the first time in its history, the UAW started the strike on September 15 with a targeted work stoppage by 12,700 ...
On Tuesday GM and Stellantis each announced more layoffs triggered by the UAW's strike expansion against each company this week. GM and Stellantis lay off another 650 employees, blaming the UAW strike
The United Auto Workers (UAW), fully named International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, is an American labor union that represents workers in the United States (including Puerto Rico) and southern Ontario, Canada.
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 ...
UAW official and Ford employee Marcel Edwards picks up UAW On Strike signs as he walks across Michigan Avenue to watch live announcement at Local 900 across from Ford's Michigan Assembly Plant in ...
The UAW would later orchestrate similar strikes against the Ford Motor Company in 1940 and 1941, culminating in a National Labor Relations Board order to Ford demanding they halt opposition to the union. [13] The success experienced by the UAW against GM was also indicative a gradual strengthening of organized labor observed during the era. [14]
United Auto Workers members strike at the Ford Michigan Assembly Plant on Sept. 16, 2023 in Wayne, Mich. This is the first time in history that the UAW is striking all three of the Big Three ...