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In 1997 the plant was closed by an 84-day UAW strike, the longest strike against GM since 1972. [3] The plant closed in September 2009 and ownership was transferred to the RACER Trust, an organization marking surplus GM properties, as part of the General Motors bankruptcy settlement. [4] In late 2011, demolition of the plant began.
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]
] George Marchuk of the Auto Workers Union, and John Bielak of the Hudson Motor Local of the AFL, both Communist labor activists, found shot to death three months apart. [200] April 1934 Lakeland, FL citrus organizing 1 Frank Norman, a citrus workers union organizer, was abducted by Klansmen, and never seen or heard from again. [174] p. 9
UAW's Shawn Fain led a rally in Belvidere Thursday, days after giving his "Trump is a scab" speech at the DNC. Here's what he told local auto workers. 'I woke up mad as hell': UAW's Shawn Fain ...
UAW Local 600 Vice President Harold Byrd, left, talks with past president of UAW Local 600 Bernie Ricke in a conference room at the the union hall on Friday, January 26, 2024. Ricke officially ...
The union dated its origins to August 26, 1935, when the United Auto Workers (UAW) was established. As it was associated with the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO), it was suspended by the American Federation of Labor the following year, and it was expelled in May 1938, but a minority, led by Homer Martin, and representing locals ...
A Connecticut man and woman are accused of manslaughter in connection with the death of a 24-year-old man who was hit by a car in July. Kevin Gangell died after being struck by a vehicle outside ...
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.