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United Auto Workers
The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, better known as the United Auto Workers , is a labor union which represents workers in the United States and Puerto Rico, and formerly in Canada. Founded as part of the Congress of Industrial Organizations in the 1930s, the UAW grew rapidly from 1936 to the 1950s...
Timeline of Events
1936
4.27.1936
The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
12.30.1936
The United Auto Workers union stages its first sit-down strike.
1968
7.1.1968
Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.