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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...
Sponsored by an Institute of Politics study group, Fraser said he thinks the 1.5 million UAW workers can look forward to a four-day work week. The current UAW contract expires next year...
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...