Going Into Classrooms With Our Story By Ann Skelton
In the 65 years of our existence, The UAW has been a key constituency for every piece of positive social legislation since the great Depression. The history of the United States in the twentieth century is a monument of working men and women combining to redress economic, political and societal ills while bringing democracy to its full bloom in our plants and offices, in our communities, in our states and in our nation, and by example the world.
1930- 1940 1933- 1945 1935-1936 1935 1939- 1946 1939 1941 1943 1944 1945 1945-1953 1946-1970 1950-1953 1953-1961 1957 1958 1961- 1963 1961 1963-1969 1965 1969-1974 1970-1977 1974-1977 1977-1983 1977-1981 1983-1992 1981-1989 1989-1992 1992-2002 1992-2000 2000 2002	Depression up to 20% unemployed Franklin D. Roosevelt President of the United States Francis Dillion President of the UAW Wagner Act & Social Security R.J. Thomas President of the UAW World War ll. Starts Pearl Harbor Smith-Connolly anti-labor act 1.2 % unemployed G I Bill of Rights Hiroshima Taft-Hartley Act Harry S. Truman President of the United States Walter P. Reuther President of the UAW Korean War Dwight D. Eisenhower President of the United States Civil Rights Act Landrum-Griffen Act John F. Kennedy President of the United States Peace Corp Lyndon B. Johnson President of the United States Voting Rights, Medicare, War against poverty Richard Nixon President of the United States Leonard Woodcock President of the UAW Occupational Health & Safety, Environmental Protection Gerald Ford President of the United States Douglas Fraser President of the UAW Jimmy Carter President of the United States Owen Beiber President of the UAW Ronald Reagan President of the United States George Bush President of the United States Stephen P. Yokich President of the UAW William J. Clinton President of the United States Family and Medical Leave Act, NAFTA, GATT, PTRC George W Bush President of the United States Ron Gettelfinger President of UAW

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