United Auto Workers

The United Auto Workers (UAW), officially the United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America International Union, is one of the largest labor unions in North America, with more than 700,000 members in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico organized into approximately 950 union locals.

Academic Union

In the 1990s, the UAW began to focus on new areas of organizing both geographically -- in places like Puerto Rico -- and in terms of occupations, with new initiatives among university staff and employees of non-profit organizations. And, since the 1980s the UAW is also taking on the organization of academic student employees (aka "ASEs") -- typically Teaching Assistants, Research Assistants, Graders, Tutors -- under the slogan "Uniting Academic Workers". As of 2004, the UAW represents more ASEs than any other Union in the United States. Universities with UAW ASE representation include the public schools the University of California, California State University, University of Massachusetts, University of Washington, and private New York University.

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1990s - Non-profit organization - 1980s - University of California - California State University - University of Massachusetts - University of Washington - New York University

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