United Auto Workers (UAW)

Content about the North American United Auto Workers' union (UAW)

Black UAW members at GM on strike

Black UAW members at GM on strike

When the union's the enemy: an interview with Cleo Silvers

Cleo Silvers, a former organizer with the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, discusses racism in…

The Mechanics Educational Society of America and World War II

A brief introduction to the MESA and their experiences in WWII.

Better late than never - Needle Trades Action Workers Committee

This is a 1981 shop leaflet from the Needle Trades Workers Action Committee, a rank and file group…

The great Flint sit-down strike against GM 1936-37 - Walter Linder

A history of the Flint sit-in strike by Walter Linder, slightly abridged by Solidarity and published…

Solidarity motor bulletin #02: UAW scab union

Issue of Solidarity's car industry bulletin from March 22, 1974, looking at the behaviour of the US auto workers' industrial union the UAW and how it was sabotaging and scabbing on struggles of its members at the time.

The union-management GM strike, 1970 - Jeremy Brecher

A brief history of the interesting national strike of the United Auto Workers union at General…

A strikers' orchestra in the occupied Flint plant

The Flint sit-down strike, 1936-1937 - Jeremy Brecher

Jeremy Brecher's account of the great sit-down strike in the General Motors plants in Flint, 1936…

Sitdown strikers at Flint, 1937

Workers, employers and unions in the US sitdown strike wave, 1933-1937 - Jeremy Brecher

Jeremy Brecher's excellent history and analysis of the wave of sitdown strikes in US from 1933-1937…

Black workers demonstrate

Detroit: I do mind dying. A study in urban revolution - Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin

Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge…

Punching out - Martin Glaberman

Seminal text by Marty Glaberman detailing his experiences of wildcat strikes and union policing of the workforce during the heyday of the UAW in…

UAW-CIO Local 75 Election

Personal histories of the early CIO

Transcript of a talk given by 5 people who were involved in CIO organizing in the 1930s.

This image from the Lansing Labor Holiday shows how protesters used automobiles

Holiday! The Lansing general strike of 1937

A summary of the 1937 Lansing 'Labor Holiday', a general strike in the city in response to police raids on union organizers.