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The UAW Archivist at the Walter P. Reuther Library (@reutherlibrary.bsky.social), the @uaw.org's official repository. Open to the public, learn more at http://reuther.wayne.edu. Proud Wayne Academic Union member.

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Big plans for this summer?? Why not the 1947 @uaw.org summer school in Port Huron, MI? They have classes on cooperatives, political action, collective bargaining, and MORE. From the union’s Education Department records at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Just visited the @detroithistorical.bsky.social on my lunch break, and am beyond pumped after seeing their Red Wings’ centennial exhibit, especially anything related to the back to back Stanley Cups in the 90s. I must have listened to my I Want Stanley CD a millions times back then.

@uaw.org Local 148 United Aerospace workers picketing during the McDonnell Douglas strike, May 1978. From the union's archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Over fifty years before Moo Deng broke the internet, this rascal caused a stir in a Sunday edition of the Detroit Free Press. Something I came across at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social .

Two divers checking if this car will start, but they keep flooding the engine. From the "junkyards" folder of the @uaw.org Public Relations Department Photographs and Sound and Video Recordings at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social. 🤿🚙

Saga of 666 Bold title to an educational cartoon for union stewards about the grievance procedure. This accompanying study guide was made by the @uaw.org Education Dept., circa 1965. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Just found out the Detroit Public Library’s Douglass branch has a specialty reading room for the blind and hearing impaired named after @uaw.org president and @reutherlibrary.bsky.social namesake Walter Reuther!

At the UAW Convention in 1964, Robert F. Kennedy accepted the Social Justice Award honoring his brother, the late President John F. Kennedy. "There was no organization with which the president felt a closer association than the UAW," RFK told delegates. 📸 Walter P. Reuther Library

At the UAW's 18th Constitutional Convention in Atlantic City, NJ, in 1962, Nelson “Jack” Edwards made history by becoming the first black man elected to the UAW International Executive Board. 📸 Walter P. Reuther Library

American Axle workers of UAW Local 235 on strike, 2008. From the @uaw.org archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.