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United Automobile Workers

Index United Automobile Workers

The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, better known as the United Automobile Workers (UAW), is an American labor union that represents workers in the United States (including Puerto Rico) and Canada. [1]

87 relations: Aerospace, AFL–CIO, Alliance for Labor Action, American Federation of Labor, American Machine and Foundry, American Motors Corporation, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Atlanta, Automation, Automotive industry crisis of 2008–10, Battle of the Overpass, Black Lake (Michigan), Bob King (labor leader), California State University, Canada, Canadian Auto Workers, Canadian Labour Congress, Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Chrysler, Chrysler Chapter 11 reorganization, Collective bargaining, Congress of Industrial Organizations, Craft unionism, Dearborn, Michigan, Deep South, Democracy Now!, Detroit, Douglas Fraser, Dual unionism, Final Offer, Financial crisis of 2007–2008, Flint sit-down strike, Ford Motor Company, Frank Fitzsimmons, Frank Murphy, Freightliner Trucks, General Motors, General Motors Chapter 11 reorganization, Globalization, Graphic Artists Guild, Great Recession, Great Society, Harry Bennett, Homer Martin (labor leader), International Brotherhood of Teamsters, John L. Lewis, Kevin Boyle (historian), Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, Labor unions in the United States, ..., Leon Bates (American labor leader), Leonard Woodcock, List of United Auto Workers local unions, Michigan, Mother Jones (magazine), Murray (bicycle company), National trade union center, National Writers Union, New Deal coalition, New York University, North American Free Trade Agreement, Owen Bieber, Pickup truck, Postdoctoral researcher unionization, Puerto Rico, R. J. Thomas, Reuther's Treaty of Detroit, Richard Bensinger, Ron Gettelfinger, Schwinn Bicycle Company, Sierra Club, Sport utility vehicle, Stephen Yokich, Strike action, UAW Local 5810, United States, University of California, University of Connecticut, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Washington, Vietnam War, Walter Reuther, Wayne State University, WDET-FM, 1973 oil crisis, 2000s energy crisis, 2007 General Motors strike. Expand index (37 more) »

Aerospace

Aerospace is the human effort in science, engineering and business to fly in the atmosphere of Earth (aeronautics) and surrounding space (astronautics).

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AFL–CIO

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is the largest federation of unions in the United States.

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Alliance for Labor Action

The Alliance for Labor Action (ALA) was an American and Canadian national trade union center which existed from July 1968 until January 1972.

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American Federation of Labor

The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was a national federation of labor unions in the United States founded in Columbus, Ohio, in December 1886 by an alliance of craft unions disaffected from the Knights of Labor, a national labor union.

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American Machine and Foundry

American Machine and Foundry (known after 1970 as AMF, Inc.) was one of the United States' largest recreational equipment companies, with diversified products as disparate as garden equipment, atomic reactors, and yachts.

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American Motors Corporation

American Motors Corporation (AMC) was an American automobile company formed by the 1954 merger of Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and Hudson Motor Car Company.

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Andrew Ross Sorkin

Andrew Ross Sorkin (born February 19, 1977) is an American journalist and author.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.

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Automation

Automation is the technology by which a process or procedure is performed without human assistance.

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Automotive industry crisis of 2008–10

The automotive industry crisis of 2008–2010 was a part of a global financial downturn.

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Battle of the Overpass

The Battle of the Overpass was an incident on May 26, 1937, in which Walter Reuther and members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) clashed with Ford Motor Company security guards at the River Rouge Plant complex in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Black Lake (Michigan)

Black Lake is located in Cheboygan and Presque Isle counties in northern Michigan, United States.

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Bob King (labor leader)

Robert Thompson "Bob" King (born August 18, 1946)United Auto Workers, 2007 Media Fact Book, 2007, p. 59.

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California State University

California State University (Cal State or CSU) is a public university system in California.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Canadian Auto Workers

The Canadian Auto Workers (CAW; formally the National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers Union of Canada) was one of Canada's largest and highest profile labour unions.

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Canadian Labour Congress

The Canadian Labour Congress, or CLC (Congrès du travail du Canada or CTC) is a national trade union centre, the central labour body in English Canada to which most Canadian labour unions are affiliated.

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Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code

Chapter 11 is a chapter of Title 11, the United States Bankruptcy Code, which permits reorganization under the bankruptcy laws of the United States.

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Chattanooga, Tennessee

Chattanooga is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, with a population of 177,571 in 2016.

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Chrysler

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles US LLC (commonly known as Chrysler) is the American subsidiary of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V., an Italian-American automobile manufacturer registered in the Netherlands with headquarters in London, U.K., for tax purposes.

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Chrysler Chapter 11 reorganization

Chrysler LLC and twenty-four of its affiliated subsidiaries filed a consolidated petition for bankruptcy on April 30, 2009, with the federal bankruptcy court in New York.

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Collective bargaining

Collective bargaining is a process of negotiation between employers and a group of employees aimed at agreements to regulate working salaries, working conditions, benefits, and other aspects of workers' compensation and rights for workers.

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Congress of Industrial Organizations

The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955.

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Craft unionism

Craft unionism refers to a model of trade unionism in which workers are organised based on the particular craft or trade in which they work.

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Dearborn, Michigan

Dearborn is a city in the State of Michigan.

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Deep South

The Deep South is a cultural and geographic subregion in the Southern United States.

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Democracy Now!

Democracy Now! is an hour-long American TV, radio and internet news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

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Douglas Fraser

Douglas Andrew Fraser (December 18, 1916 – February 23, 2008) was an American union leader.

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Dual unionism

Dual unionism is the development of a union or political organization parallel to and within an existing labor union.

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Final Offer

Final Offer is a Canadian film documenting the 1984 contract negotiations between the United Auto Workers Union (UAW) and GM.

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Financial crisis of 2007–2008

The financial crisis of 2007–2008, also known as the global financial crisis and the 2008 financial crisis, is considered by many economists to have been the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

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Flint sit-down strike

The 1936–1937 Flint sit-down strike against General Motors (also known as the General Motors sit-down strike, the great GM sit-down strike, and other variants) changed the United Automobile Workers (UAW) from a collection of isolated locals on the fringes of the industry into a major labor union and led to the unionization of the domestic United States automobile industry.

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Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company (commonly referred to simply as "Ford") is an American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

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Frank Fitzsimmons

Frank Edward Fitzsimmons (August 7, 1908 – May 6, 1981) was an American labor leader.

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Frank Murphy

William Francis "Frank" Murphy (April 13, 1890July 19, 1949) was a Democratic politician and jurist from Michigan.

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Freightliner Trucks

Freightliner Trucks is an American truck manufacturer and a division of Daimler Trucks North America.

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General Motors

General Motors Company, commonly referred to as General Motors (GM), is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit that designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts, and sells financial services.

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General Motors Chapter 11 reorganization

The 2009 General Motors Chapter 11 sale of the assets of automobile manufacturer General Motors and some of its subsidiaries was implemented through Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code in the United States bankruptcy court for the Southern District of New York.

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Globalization

Globalization or globalisation is the process of interaction and integration between people, companies, and governments worldwide.

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Graphic Artists Guild

The Graphic Artists Guild is a guild of graphic designers, illustrators, and photographers and is organized into seven chapters around the United States.

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Great Recession

The Great Recession was a period of general economic decline observed in world markets during the late 2000s and early 2010s.

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Great Society

The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65.

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Harry Bennett

Harry Herbert Bennett (January 17, 1892 – January 4, 1979), a former boxer and ex-Navy sailor, was an executive at Ford Motor Company during the 1930s and 1940s.

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Homer Martin (labor leader)

Homer Martin (September 16, 1901 in Illinois – January 22, 1968) was an American trade unionist and socialist.

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International Brotherhood of Teamsters

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) is a labor union in the United States and Canada.

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John L. Lewis

John Llewellyn Lewis (February 12, 1880 – June 11, 1969) was an American leader of organized labor who served as president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) from 1920 to 1960.

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Kevin Boyle (historian)

Kevin Gerard Boyle (7 October 1960) is the William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern University.

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Labor Management Relations Act of 1947

The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, better known as the Taft–Hartley Act, (80 H.R. 3020) is a United States federal law that restricts the activities and power of labor unions.

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Labor unions in the United States

Labor unions in the United States are organizations that represent workers in many industries recognized under US labor law.

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Leon Bates (American labor leader)

Leon E. Bates Sr. (December 3, 1899 – July 25, 1972) was an American labor union leader with the United Auto Workers union (UAW) from 1937 to 1964 when he retired as an "International Representative" of the UAW.

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Leonard Woodcock

Leonard Freel Woodcock (February 15, 1911 – January 16, 2001) was President of the United Auto Workers (UAW) and the first US ambassador to the People's Republic of China (and the last Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office in Beijing).

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List of United Auto Workers local unions

The following is a list of local unions belonging to the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, better known as the United Auto Workers (UAW).

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.

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Mother Jones (magazine)

Mother Jones (abbreviated MoJo) is a progressive American magazine that focuses on news, commentary, and investigative reporting on topics including politics, the environment, human rights, and culture.

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Murray (bicycle company)

Murray was an American company whose assets are now owned by Briggs & Stratton and Dorel Industries.

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National trade union center

A national trade union center is a federation or confederation of trade unions in a single country.

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National Writers Union

National Writers Union (NWU), founded on 19 November 1981, is the trade union in the United States for freelance and contract writers: journalists, book and short fiction authors, business and technical writers, web content providers, and poets.

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New Deal coalition

The New Deal coalition was the alignment of interest groups and voting blocs in the United States that supported the New Deal and voted for Democratic presidential candidates from 1932 until the late 1960s.

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.

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North American Free Trade Agreement

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA; Spanish: Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte, TLCAN; French: Accord de libre-échange nord-américain, ALÉNA) is an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America.

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Owen Bieber

Owen Frederick Bieber (Sawyer, "In Troubled Detroit, the UAW to Follow 'a Guy You Can Trust'," Washington Post, November 22, 1982. born December 28, 1929)Maynard, "Owen Bieber: Rising Above Criticism," United Press International, November 12, 1982.

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Pickup truck

A pickup truck is a light-duty truck having an enclosed cab and an open cargo area with low sides and tailgate.

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Postdoctoral researcher unionization

Postdoctoral researcher unionization is the formation of labor unions by postdoctoral researchers (postdocs).

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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.

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R. J. Thomas

Roland Jay Thomas (June 9, 1900 – April 18, 1967), also known as R. J. Thomas, was born in East Palestine, Ohio.

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Reuther's Treaty of Detroit

Reuther's Treaty of Detroit was a five-year contract negotiated by trade union president Walter Reuther between the United Auto Workers (UAW) and General Motors in 1950.

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Richard Bensinger

Richard Bensinger is an author, American labor activist, and labor consultant known for his advocacy of expanded organizing efforts.

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Ron Gettelfinger

Ronald A. Gettelfinger was the president of the United Auto Workers from 2002 to 2010.

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Schwinn Bicycle Company

The Schwinn Bicycle Company was founded by German-born mechanical engineer Ignaz Schwinn (1860–1945) in Chicago in 1895.

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Sierra Club

The Sierra Club is an environmental organization in the United States.

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Sport utility vehicle

Sport-utility (vehicle), SUV or sport-ute is an automotive classification, typically a kind of station wagon / estate car with off-road vehicle features like raised ground clearance and ruggedness, and available four-wheel drive.

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Stephen Yokich

Stephen Phillip Yokich (August 20, 1935 – August 16, 2002) was an American labor union activist who served as President of the United Auto Workers from 1994 to 2002.

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Strike action

Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.

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UAW Local 5810

UAW Local 5810 is the labor union representing postdoctoral researchers at the University of California.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of California

The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the US state of California.

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University of Connecticut

The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land grant, National Sea Grant and National Space Grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, United States.

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University of Massachusetts Amherst

The University of Massachusetts Amherst (abbreviated UMass Amherst and colloquially referred to as UMass or Massachusetts) is a public research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States, and the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system.

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University of Washington

The University of Washington (commonly referred to as UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Walter Reuther

Walter Philip Reuther (September 1, 1907 – May 9, 1970) was an American leader of organized labor and civil rights activist who built the United Automobile Workers (UAW) into one of the most progressive labor unions in American history.

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Wayne State University

Wayne State University (WSU) is a public research university located in Detroit, Michigan.

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WDET-FM

WDET-FM is a public radio station in Detroit, Michigan.

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1973 oil crisis

The 1973 oil crisis began in October 1973 when the members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries proclaimed an oil embargo.

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2000s energy crisis

From the mid-1980s to September 2003, the inflation-adjusted price of a barrel of crude oil on NYMEX was generally under US$25/barrel.

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2007 General Motors strike

The 2007 General Motors strike was a strike from September 24 to 26, 2007, by the United Auto Workers against General Motors.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Automobile_Workers

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