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Veterans Memorial Building

UAW-Ford National Programs Center, Detroit, Michigan, a building that may possibly also be known as Veterans Memorial Building


1996 in radio

UAW's president at the time, Stephen Yokich, saw UBN as a way to promote the union's ideals and counter conservative radio talk show hosts.

Charles I. Krause

One of the first 1,000 men recruited to join the nascent United Auto Workers (UAW) in 1935 by John L. Lewis, then-president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), Krause participated in the famed sit-down strike at a General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan in 1936.

He served two separate stints as president of UAW Local 923 located in Pico Rivera, California before retiring in 1973.

Flint Sit-Down Strike

Other notable participants in the sit-down strike were future D-Day hero and Greco-Roman wrestling champion Dean Rockwell, labor leader and future UAW president Walter Reuther, and the uncle of documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, whose debut feature Roger & Me contains a clip from the strike.

Kenny Winfree

Winfree currently works at a large aircraft plant in Texas and is a member of UAW Local 848 in Grand Prairie, Texas and also the Dallas/Fort Worth Professional Musicians Association / American Federation of Musicians Local 72-147.

Kobalt Tools 400

After Daimler sold Chrysler to Cerberus Capital Management, the race became known as the UAW-Dodge 400 for 2008.

Owen Bieber

The UAW struck Caterpillar in 1982, a strike that (by 1993) was the longest in UAW history and which had severely drained the union's strike fund.

Theodore J. St. Antoine

He serves on the internal board of review of the United Automobile Workers, a UAW-constitutional agency that provides redress for aggrieved union members.

Union of Australian Women

In 1981, for example, NSW state secretary Lee Gorman pledged the UAW's support in pursuing the case of four women appealing to the Anti-Discrimination Board for being stood down by the Urban Transit Authority for being pregnant.

In 1970, the UAW were active in aiding the Roper River People's land rights claim and then in September 1971 they similarly aided the Gurindji people.

The UAW started off in an environment hostile to the notion of women joining the workforce, despite the availability of work, availability of time afforded by advances in domestic technology, and the necessity for working-class households to meet rising costs of living (another target of the UAW's efforts; see below).

The UAW protested the South African apartheid movement since the 1950s, maintaining support for various anti-apartheid citizens and figures, including Elizabeth Mafekeng and Helen Joseph.


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