Walter Reuther was president of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) from 1946 until his death in 1970. Under his leadership, the UAW grew to more than 1.5 million members, becoming one of the largest ...
UAW President Walter Reuther, center, shakes hands with a Ford executive after agreeing on a three-year contract in 1967. Bettmann via Getty Images The United Auto Workers are engaged in high-stakes ...
Walter Reuther is known as the man who gave birth to the UAW, helped create the middle class and fought for civil rights. He often paid a price for it. He was beaten senseless by company thugs on an ...
At the United Auto Workers convention that opens Monday, June 14, job No. 1 will be to install a new leader to follow Ron Gettelfinger, whom a Detroit News columnist last week called “the most ...
"There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well." Those are the words of ...
Victor Reuther, who along with his brothers Walter and Roy helped make the United Auto Workers union a powerful force in the U.S. labor movement, has died at 92. Mr. Reuther, who had been living in a ...
Walter Reuther, the C.I.O.’s cocky redhead, had a noticeable wilt to his comb this week. Somehow his swagger toward fame had bogged down in the quicksands of the wage-price formula and union politics.
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WESTLAND, Mich. – A member of the Michigan Senate is pushing for state hearings to find out who knew what at the Hawthorn Children’s Psychiatric Hospital. An active shooter drill inside the state-run ...
Having grown up in Michigan in the years which almost exactly coincide with Walter Reuther’s presidency of the United Auto Workers (1946-1970), it is shocking to read in the Detroit News how federal ...
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