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More than 12,000 UAW members were paid this benefit in 2005. [48] In December 2008, the UAW agreed to suspend the program as a concession to help U.S. automakers during the auto industry crisis. [49] UAW leadership granted concessions to its unions in order to win labor peace, a benefit not calculated by the UAW's many critics. [50]
United Auto Workers (UAW) 1935 990,000 Full name: International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Automobile, truck, farm equipment, and construction equipment manufacturing workers. 2010: UAW: United Steelworkers (US) 1942 860,264 [2] Steel mill workers; related trades. USW
By 2011 fewer than seven percent of employees in the private sector belonged to unions. The UAW's numbers of automobile union members are representative of the manufacturing sector: 1,619,000 active members in 1970, 1,446,000 in 1980, 952,000 in 1990, 623,000 in 2004, and 377,000 in 2010 (with far more retired than active members). [194]
Shawn Fain in his first year as UAW president received a total of $228,872 from the union in salary and other payments. ... It also provides a view of the union’s membership numbers, which ...
In 1983, the first year where comparable union data is available, the union membership rate was 20.1% and there were 17.7 million union workers, compared with 14.3 million last year.
The GM sit-down strike led to a burst in UAW membership. Its membership surged from 88,000 in February 1937 to 400,000 by October. By 1941, it had jumped to 649,000 members, according to Greenhouse.
For one thing, it would add thousands of members to the UAW. UAW membership is far below its 1979 peak of 1.5 million. ... Right after the UAW won wage gains of 25% across 4½-year contracts with ...
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 ...