(8755) Contract negotiations, 1949 Ford Strike, Detroit, Michigan

Walter Reuther (UAW President) and Ken Bannon (director of the UAW Ford Department) lead the UAW-Ford bargaining team in the 1949 negotiations, Detroit, Michigan. The negotiations resulted in the creation of the first pension plan in the industry.

Pictured left to right (front row): Jim Warren, Local 896; Virgil Lacey and Peter Llewellyn, Local 600; Kack Conway, administrative assistant to the president ; Ken Bannon; Walter Reuther; Gene Prato, chairman of the Ford Council; Carl Boyle, Ford Council secretary; and Shelton Tappes, Local 600. Second row: Ed Fitzgerald, Local 862; Angelo DeMardo, Local 906; Jim Sullivan and Nat Weinberg, International staff members; Lew Michner, Local 406; and Carter Page, Local 249. Standing: Art Valenti, Local 900, and Jim Hamby, Local 551.