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UAW & Union Events
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U.S. & World Events
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1929 |
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Great Depression (20% unemployment) |
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1932 |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt—US president |
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1935 |
CIO formed |
Wagner Labor Act (NLRB) |
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UAW formed |
Social Security Act |
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UAW President: Homer Martin |
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Sit-Down Strikes |
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1936 |
Sit-Down Strikes |
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1937 |
Ford negotiations--Battle of the Overpass |
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UAW bargaining: Union security, grievance procedures, senority |
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UAW Canadian Regional Office |
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Reuther organizes 1st auto department: UAW Chrysler Department |
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UAW Recreation Department |
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UAW General Motors Department |
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1939 |
UAW bargaining: Overtime pay |
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UAW President R.J. Thomas |
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1940 |
UAW bargaining: Paid vacation |
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1941 |
UAW organizes Ford, UAW Ford Department Collection |
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UAW War Policy Department
UAW National War Labor Board & NLRB |
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UAW bargaining: Union shop |
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor |
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1942 |
Walter Reuther proposes converting plants into “Arsenals for Democracy” |
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UAW War Policy Division: Women’s Bureau |
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UAW bargaining: Improved call-in pay |
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1943 |
UAW Aircraft (Aerospace) Department |
Smith-Connolly Anti-Labor Act |
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1944 |
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Peak unemployment 1.2% |
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GI Bill of Rights |
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1945 |
Start of 113 day GM strike and new UAW strategy. |
War with Germany ends |
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Harry S. Truman, U.S. President |
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1946 |
UAW President Walter P. Reuther |
War with Japan ends |
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Unions initiate anti-Communism measures |
Employment Act weakened |
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UAW bargaining: Dues Check Off |
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UAW Fair Practices & Anti-Discrimination Department |
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1947 |
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Onset of the Cold War with USSR |
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Taft-Hartley Act |
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1948 |
UAW bargaining: Cost of living escalator |
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Assassination attempt on Reuther |
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1949 |
UAW Foundry & Forge Departments |
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Assassination attempt on Reuther’s brother Victor |
US Recession (5.9% unemployment) |
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1950 |
UAW bargaining: Vested pensions, improved health coverage |
Korean War |
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104-Day Chrysler strike |
McCarthyism |
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1952 |
Reuther elected president of CIO |
Dwight David Eisenhower elected U.S. President |
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1953 |
UAW Technical, Office, Professional (TOP) Dept. |
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1954 |
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Brown v. Board of Education begins the end of Jim Crow schools |
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1955 |
UAW bargaining: Supplemental unemployment benefits, added holidays |
Montgomery Bus Boycott |
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AFL-CIO merger |
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UAW Women’s Department |
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1956 |
UAW Social Security Department (early HMO) |
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1957 |
UAW Public Review Board |
USSR launches Sputnik—1st satellite |
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UAW Special Projects Department |
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1958 |
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Recession (6.8% unemployed) |
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1959 |
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Landrum-Griffin Act |
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1960 |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy elected US President with strong UAW support |
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1961 |
UAW bargaining: Paid hospital and surgical benefits, improved relief time, anti-discrimination clauses |
Peace Corp established following Reuther suggestion |
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1963 |
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Civil Rights March on DC, Reuther & UAW involved & helping fund the movement |
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Kennedy assassinated, Lyndon Johnson as U.S. President |
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1964 |
UAW bargaining: Retiree hospitalization |
Civil Rights Act |
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1965 |
UAW support for Cesar Chavez and Farm Workers |
Voting Rights Act |
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1966 |
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U.S. Canada Auto Trade Pact |
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Viet Nam escalates into war |
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1967 |
UAW bargaining: 10th paid holiday |
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Master agreement at Caterpillar & Deere |
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1968 |
UAW leaves AFL-CIO |
Martin Luther King & Robert Kennedy assassinated |
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1969 |
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Richard Nixon takes office |
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1970 |
Walter P. Reuther dies in plane crash |
OSHA and EPA |
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UAW President: Leonard Woodcock |
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1972 |
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Watergate |
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Gerald Ford replaces Nixon |
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1975 |
UAW bargaining: Remove COLA caps, 4 weeks vacation pay, 30 and out, improved accident and sickness benefits |
Recession (8.5% unemployment) |
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1976 |
UAW bargaining: Paid personal holidays |
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1977 |
UAW President: Douglas A. Fraser |
Jimmy Carter as U.S. President |
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1979 |
UAW bargaining, visual, hearing and dental plans |
Chrysler Loan bailout |
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1980 |
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1981 |
UAW organizes Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Rejoins AFL-CIO |
Ronald Reagan as U.S. President |
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1982 |
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Recession (9.7% unemployment) |
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1983 |
Owen Bieber elected UAW President |
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1984 |
UAW bargaining: Job security program, profit sharing |
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1985 |
Canadian Autoworkers leave UAW |
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2000 |
Pres. Yokich negotiates voting holiday |
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2002 |
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