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If all 145,000 UAW members among the three automakers were to strike at the same time, it could cost the fund more than $70 million a week, draining the $825 million fund.
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
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 initial strike on September 15 called for roughly 13,000 UAW members to stop work at three plants. Ford's Michigan Assembly in Wayne, Michigan, was the first, where the company currently ...
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 ...
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.
This recognition marked a turning point in the growth of the UAW and organized labor unions more generally. [17] The next month, auto workers at Chrysler won recognition of the UAW as their representative in a sitdown strike. By mid-1937 the new union claimed 150,000 members and was spreading through the auto and parts manufacturing towns of ...
With the deadline set for 11:59pm on Sept. 14, it was no real surprise when Fain and the UAW made the late-night call to strike. But what was surprising was the method — the so-called stand-up ...