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NOTICE OF LOCAL 598 MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS

The next membership meeting will be MAY 18TH, 2025, 2PM Scheduled meetings are @ 2PM on the following dates February 16, 2025 March 16, 2025 April 13,...

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April 10 Livestream - UAW - Our Economy, Our Country, Our Future

President Fain's remarks from April 10 Livestream - Our Economy, Our Country, Our Union

Our mission, no matter which industry, which company, which President is in the White House, is to take our power back and raise the standard for the...

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Walk to Freedom

On June 23, 1963, over 125,000 people marched down Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan in the 'Walk to Freedom.' The march was the largest civil rights demonstration at the time highlighting the injustices African Americans faced across the country.

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FREEP: Juneteenth feels different this year for autoworker

For Gerald Kariem, Juneteenth feels even more special in Detroit. So many successful Black Americans today are descendants of the millions of men and women who left the south for work in the north starting back in 1916 to build Ford cars.

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UAW President Rory L. Gamble Juneteenth Memorial

Today, we take time to honor the memory of our lost brother, George Floyd. We will sit still, we will put down our tools and silence our phones for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. A full eight minutes and 46 seconds -- the agonizing amount of time that Mr. Floyd lay on the pavement begging for his life.

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Juneteenth Memorial

Dear Sisters and Brothers, As trade unionists and as Americans, we were outraged and heartsick at the horror of George Floyd’s death on May 25. It was yet another tragedy in a long and sorrowful history of the divisiveness of racism in this nation. Since that day in communities from coast to coast, we have seen Americans from all walks of life, black, brown and white, stand together to demand change. To demand – finally – that we address the systemic racial divide that has plagued our nation since its inception.

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