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ben_meyers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-08 02:36 PM
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UAW membership drops below 500,000
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Union has lost more than 1 million members since 1979


WASHINGTON - United Auto Workers union membership has fallen below 500,000 for the first time since World War II, reflecting the massive restructuring undertaken by Detroit's automakers.

The union reported Friday in a filing with the Labor Department that it had 464,910 members by the end of 2007, compared with 538,448 at the end of 2006. UAW membership peaked in 1979 at 1.5 million but has been dropping ever since.
Mike Smith, director of the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University in Detroit, said the last time the UAW had fewer than 500,000 members was in 1941. By 1945, UAW membership had surpassed one million.


Anybody else detect a disturbing 40 year trend here? What amount of bridge loan will it take to reverse this decades old slide.

Or maybe that's not really an important question.



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