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The UAW recently separated from the much larger union, The American Federation of Labor (AFL). Organizing in Flint was a difficult and dangerous plan. GM controlled city politics in Flint and kept a close eye on outsiders. As Wyndham Mortimer, the first UAW officer put in charge of organizing the campaign in Flint, entered the town, he was ...
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.
The United Auto Workers (UAW) was founded in Detroit on August 26, 1935. The labor union struggled to gain members until the Flint sit-down strike in 1937. [2] The strike started on December 30, 1936, when workers at the Fisher Body Plant No. 1 stopped loading tool dies on the night shift, locking themselves into the plant.
The former president’s plans to show up for autoworkers are more overt than Joe Biden’s. But Trump’s track record has its holes.
The Battle of the Overpass was an attack by Ford Motor Company against the United Auto Workers (UAW) on May 26, 1937, at the River Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan.The UAW had recently organized workers at Ford's competitors, and planned to hand out leaflets at an overpass leading to the plant's main gate in view of many of the 90,000 employees.
Pro-Palestine protesters march to Northwestern High School hours before Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the high school in Detroit during a Labor Day rally on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024.
More: 5 memorable visits to Detroit by presidential candidates on Labor Day Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer addresses union members at the annual Labor Day parade on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024, in Detroit.
The labor union United Auto Workers (UAW) represents approximately 145,000 automobile workers employed at Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Stellantis. [14] To achieve its goals, UAW has engaged in strike action; from November 1945 to March 1946, UAW went on strike against General Motors.