The United Automobile Workers (UAW).
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Flint, Michigan
Flint, Michigan
General Motors recognized the United Automobile Workers Union.
A UAW members refused to leave a GM plant until the company agreed to recongnize the union
The UAW had only been formed in 1935 and held its first convention in 1936. Shortly thereafter the union decided that it could not survive by piecemeal organizing campaigns at smaller plants, as it had in the past, but that it could organize the automobile industry only by going after its biggest and most powerful employer, General Motors Corporation,
According to several sources (NYT, Bloomberg, etc.), the 2011 UAW-GM contract calls for a $14-16/hour wage for newly hired workers. Incumbent workers make twice that rate.
There is no E-mail address for UAW local 435.
This is up to the employer. I personally belonged to the UAW, had insurance and my domestic partner was covered. However, this depends upon what agreement your specific employer has with the UAW local you belong to. Of course, if you mean that you are an employee of the UAW, then that is a different question.
The UAW were a Union that was over the Century gain Health Care 40 hour work weeks pensions and social care for the Nation througe the leadership of the Canadian local 222 in Canada as leader in most of the Contracts in the big three.
My meaning of UAW is: U Ain't Working But it really stands for United Auto Workers