Word: uaw
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Douglas Fraser, president of the United Auto Workers (UAW), told 150 people at teh Kennedy School ARCO Forum last night that although he has no "philosophical hangups" about labor forming a third party in America, social activists should try to reform the Democratic Party first...
Fraser, who is president of the 1.5 million member UAW, will speak tonight at 8 p.m. at the Kennedy School's Room 150 on "Labor in American Politics...
Fraser is coming to Harvard at the behest of UAW staff member Don Stillman and Harvard Law/Public Health student Edgar James, who are running the "American Labor Movement in Crisis" student study group sponsored by the Institute of Politics...
Fraser, who was a close associate of former UAW president Walter Reuther, has been a leader of the left-wing within the labor movement along with such often-isolated progressives as Jerry Wurf of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and William Wimpisinger of the International Union of Machinists...
This fact lead the UAW to make its demand for increased employment through paid days off the major issue in the negotiations with Ford. It is an issue that other unions in major industries will stress in their own contract talks--and justifiably. Hopefully, the proposal for more jobs through fewer hours for each worker--at no loss in pay--will gain support from left-liberal groups in political circles, and from a new national administration in January. For those who place the problems of working class and poor people above all others, the UAW initiative is a very welcome...