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__U A W H IS TO RY __ In the year 1935 200 delegates from all types of auto plants met in Detroit for the founding convention of the UAW. Also president Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the national labor relations act strengthening the right of workers to organize unions and bargain collectivity plus AFL issues charter to the UAW.

Between the years 1936 and 1937 UAW launches historic flint,mich sitdown strike at GM on dec 30th. The strike ended on Feb 11th 1937. After GM agrees to negotiate with the union. In 1941 they did the same to Ford, but they also adopted a no strike pledge when the war broke out between the U.S and Japan.



 Then in 1944 the UAW was the first to hold a womens conference that called for employment and equal pay for women, in 1946 Walter Reuther was elected the fourth UAW president. In 1955 UAW is the first in the industry to win Supplemental Unemployment Benefits at Ford as part of an effort to win a gaurenteed annual wage for workers.

At GM the union wins the first fully paid hospitalization and sick benefits, and they also made an agreement for no discrimination on any basis of race, creed, color or national origin. Then in 1970 Leonard Woodcock became the fifth president of the UAW also the Occupational Safety and Health act passed along with the Workers Memorial and the next day they established a meeting to remember those who died on the job.



Through the years 1983-1990 Owen Bieber became the seventh president of UAW and then 2 years later more than 22,000 michigan employers join the UAW, Also Nelson Mendela as he expressed his appreciation for the unions aid in fighting apartheid received a UAW membership card while visiting members at Dearbourn's Ford Rouge complex following his release from prison in south america.

In 2002 Ron Gettelfinger was elected as the ninth UAW president, also in 2005 workers at Thomas who built buses in North Carolina voted for UAW representation, defeating a right-to-work challenge and bringing the total of UAW workers in the freightliner system to 8,000.

Then finally in the years 2006 & 2007 40,000 childcare workers in Michigan form there own union in a joint effort with the UAW and AFSCME, also more than 6,367 casino dealer and slot technicians in Atlantic City, NJ- Evansville,IND- and Norwich,CONN also vote to join the UAW.

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__REFERENCES__ @http://www.uaw.org/ @http://www.uaw2322.org/ http://www.uaw.org/history/uaw70years.html