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

Vega assembly line at Lordstown, 1972

In the heart of the heart of the country: The strike at Lordstown - Peter Herman

A detailed historical account and analysis of the dispute at the General Motors Lordstown plant in…

US oil workers strike in 1945

The World War II and post-war strike wave - Jeremy Brecher

Jeremy Brecher on the huge, often unofficial, strikes which swept the US during and after World War…

CLR James

Young Detroit radicals 1955-1965 - Dan Georgakas

Dan Georgakas's personal recollections of radicals in Detroit and the people who formed the League…

Wildcat: Dodge Truck June 1974

Detailed article by participants and eyewitnesses about the wildcat strike at the Chrysler truck plant in Michigan, 1974, and the roles of the…

Sitdown strikers in Fisher Body

Flint 1936-7: Diary of a sitdowner

The diary of one of the striking General Motors workers who occupied their factories between December 1936 and February 1937.

DRUM: vanguard of the black revolution

A short history of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, detailing their beginnings as well as their opposition to the United Auto Workers…

The Lordstown struggle and the real crisis in production - Ken Weller

Fascinating pamphlet by Solidarity on the informal workers struggle against the frenetic pace of…

UAW sit-down strike in Flint, 1937

Organized labor versus "the revolt against work" - John Zerzan

Article examining the role of unions in the exploitation of workers, focussing in particular on the…

General Motors worker on strike, Parma, Ohio

USA: Auto-workers on nationwide strike at General Motors

Thousands of United Auto Workers walked off the job at General Motors Corp. plants around the…

Sitting down

1911-1970s: Unions and workers: limitations and possibilities, by Martin Glaberman

Detroit auto-worker Martin Glaberman analyses the bureaucratisation and decline of the US trade…

Cleveland Freightliner plant

Union calls off truck plant wildcat strike

With layoffs imminent, truck manufacturing workers in North Carolina walked out until union officials called off the action.

An open letter to rank and file labor activists

An open letter by the IMPACT group in Ohio, USA, to rank-and-file workers. The letter cointains short accounts of sell-outs and closed-door deals…