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Onion Inc Union @onionunion.bsky.social · 2h

The Onion Union has four months until our contract expires. Here are some tips to unionize your workplace.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There’s a reason I keep this button on my cubicle wall

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

From concept art to final product, versions of the cover to the @uaw.org Women’s Department report. 1968. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social .

Draft version of UAW Women’s Department report, with bright multicolor design.

Final version of UAW Women’s Department report, with bright multicolor design.

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AFSCME Archivist @afscme-archivist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Who’s already ready for spooky season?? Here are some things from the archives that give me nightmares 👻 #SpookySeason #Halloween #archives #LaborHistory

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“A Dollar for Political Action; Register, Vote to Beat This Guy” Cartoon from the @uaw.org publication, Ammunition, 1950. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Cartoon of a man made out of money bags holding a money bag and looking at a list of senate races.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

After you attend Detroit’s Labor Day march, don’t miss Art + Labor Unite! A celebration of creativity and worker solidarity, featuring original works from the Union Hall artists in residence. RSVP: UNIONHALLARTS.ORG/LABORDAY

UNION
HALL
ARTS
ART + LABOR UNITE!
CELEBRATING UNION HALL ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
A Special Event for Friends and Family
Monday, Sept. 7, 2026
1:30-4:30pm
Talking Dolls Studio
7145 E. Davison in Detroit
Food • Art • Music • Reflections • Solidarity

Join us Labor Day 2026

to celebrate the creativity

that lives within our

movement as we toast

the artists participating in

the first-ever Union Hall

Arts Residency for Union
Members.

PLEASE RSVP: UNIONHALLARTS.ORG/LABORDAY
Sponsored by the UNITE HERE Education and Support Fund (501c3) in partnership with Talking Dolls Studio.
unionhallarts.org
@unionhall.art

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It’s gotta be the @uaw.org’s Roving Eye.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Members of @uaw.org Local 3, which represented Dodge autoworkers in Hamtramck, in a large meeting at Keyworth Stadium, current home of my fave ⚽️ team, @detcityfc.com! Circa 1940s or 50s, from the UAW’s archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Autoworkers in coats and hats sit I. The stands at Keyworth Stadium.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“Now Is the Time to Make Real the Promises of Democracy” Coverage of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which took place #OnThisDay in 1963, from the @uaw.org’s newspaper, Solidarity. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Page from UAW newspaper detailing the March on Washington in 1963. Has photo of the March, along with photos and excerpts from some of the event’s speakers.

Image of people in a crowd holding a sign that reads, “UAW supports FREEDOM MARCH.”

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The @uaw.org contingent at the March on Washington, from members who bussed across the country, to UAW President Walter Reuther, one of the event's ten featured speakers. In fact, the UAW sent the most attendees of any group and even printed many of the picket signs. 📸@reutherlibrary.bsky.social

Civil rights demonstrators gather on the National Mall prior to the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Signs that read “UAW Says: Be One with God --Speak Out for Freedom,” and UAW Says: Nothing can Withstand our March to Freedom in our Native Land’ are in view.

Members of the UAW Citizenship Council carry a banner with a quote from Walter Reuther that reads “There is No Halfway House on the Road to Freedom.” This banner was also used two months prior in Detroit’s “March to Freedom” civil rights march.

Unidentified African American women, holding signs and wearing hats that show UAW Support for Civil Rights, stand in front of the White House during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. prepares to address an estimated audience of 200,000 from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

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UAW @uaw.org · 28/08/2026

63 years ago today, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom brought nearly 250,000 people to Washington, D.C. to protest racial discrimination and demand economic justice. The UAW supported the march with signage emphasizing the interconnection of racial and labor justice.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Not for nothing, but this was the scene at the Wayne Academic Union picnic today.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Catching an afternoon @tigers.bsky.social game by using some any purpose time my union (Wayne Academic Union) negotiated for in our last CBA. Ordered a 🌭 served by @unitehere.org Local 24 members, and am currently watching two teams represented by the MLBPA. Did Labor Day arrive early for me?

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UAW @uaw.org · 26/08/2026

"Organized labor is celebrating the life and legacy of an artist who championed working women and carried a union card for almost 60 years." 📰 www.thenation.com/article/economy/d…

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Dolly Parton Was a Proud Union Sister

Organized labor is celebrating the life and legacy of an artist who championed working women and carried a union card for almost 60 years.

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton knew what it was like to struggle as she fought for working families her whole career. From providing free books to kids to giving working women our "9 to 5" anthem, she was an icon and an inspiration. Rest in power to our union sister. We will always love you.

A photo of Dolly Parton sitting at a desk and talking on the phone in a scene from the movie 9 to 5.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Messages on how politics and political spending affect our pocketbooks and beyond, from thr @uaw.org publication Ammunition. Sept 1950. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

art from Ammunition magazine. Headline reads, “Tax the profit it of war profiteering.”

THIS PAGE IS PAGING YOU-and if you can't be paged, you're going to be hooked-plenty
There are two wars being waged— one war is being fought in Korea,
the other is being fought in Washington against you.
Suppose you were a GI in the last war—
Remember how you couldn't afford to buy anything when you came out of the army?
If this inflation keeps on, most of the GIs this time will come back and they won't be able to make a down payment on a down payment.
Remember how after the war, if you were a civilian, how quickly the profiteers took your war bond savings away from you?
This time, between the new Rich Man's Loophole Tax Bill and the phony Inflation Control measures, you will never acquire any war bonds. The value of your pensions and social security and unemployment and workmen's compensation is shrinking each day.
What do you do?
Dollar for Political Action: Register ... Vote.
But that isn't enough:
You've got to wake people up to the fact that the profiteers have just about driven plain people into the sea.
1. There are a number of leaflets in this issue of AMMUNITION. Reproduce them and distribute them in your plant.
2. Invite your neighbors in and leaf through this issue of AMMUNITION with them.
3. Get your local to buy PAC T-shirts to wear in the plant. $10 a dozen from the PAC Department.
4. Have a stewards' and committeemen's meeting every week from now to election to discuss issues and to talk about what can be done.
5. After you have read this issue of AMMUNITION, sit down and write a letter to your Congress. man and your Senators.
6. Put up the Political Action posters everywhere you can (even in your own windows). Two for five cents from the PAC Department.
7. Make sure that everyone in your plant wears a. PAC button showing he has contributed a dollar for Political Action. $1 a hundred from the PAC Department.
8. Make a point of talking to a different person each day about the issues in this election, about registering and voting-wives and grown children…

Cover of September 1950 issue of Ammunition. Has art with surreal arrow signs.

Art from Ammunition magazine. 1950. Shows a man made out of money bags looking to spend money on senate races.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Did you know Working Detroit: The Making of a Union Town, basically THE textbook for Detroit labor history, is available for free as an E-book? The Wayne State University Press and WSU Libraries teamed up to make Steve Babson's book free to the public! 📖 cdm17409.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

Cover of Working Detroit: The Making of a Union Town, by Steve Babson.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

1984 issue of @uaw.org Solidarity magazine, with artwork by legendary poster designer and activist Gary Grimshaw. Gary’s psychedelic posters for the likes of theMC5 and Jimi Hendrix were a key element to the 1960s rock scene, esp. in Michigan. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Cover of UAW Solidarity magazine. 1984. Headline reads, “THE NEXT FOUR YEARS Our Families & America's Future.”

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The Cat's Kittens, newsletter for @uaw.org Local 974, which represented Caterpillar workers in Illinois. 1957, from the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 18/08/2026

63 years after the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, America’s unions are marching again. Join the labor movement, civil rights leaders and allies on August 28th as we march to defend the vote, our civil rights and fight for economic justice.

marchonwashington2026.com

March on Washington 2026: Defend the Vote

August 28, 2026. Washington, D.C. Register to march, reserve a bus, or partner with us.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Sweet and sour pork recipe from the Executive Chef at the @uaw.org’s Black Lake education center. 1976 issue of Solidarity magazine, from the UAW archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Solidarity Cookbook article with chef Mike Gardner, with sweet and sour pork recipe.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Very cool to see content from the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social, provided by my colleague, the @afscme-archivist.bsky.social, used on the main stage at the @afscme.bsky.social convention!

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

What was your favorite activity at summer camp? Capture the flag? Canoing? S’mores? Time study workshop, like this one at the @uaw.org’s FDR-CIO Summer School Camp in Port Huron, MI? Circa 1950s, from the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social. 🏕️🛶🌳

A member of the Hudson Local 154 participates in a time study workshop at the FDR-CIO Summer School Camp, Port Huron, Michigan.
(11550) FDR-CIO Summer Camp, Port Huron, Michigan, 1950s

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

👍 ABB workers, 1998. From the @uaw.org Public Relations Department Photographs and Sound and Video Recordings at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Five ABB works give the thumbs up in front of their plant.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Check out my announcement below on the opening of an addition to the @uaw.org Education Department Records here at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social. The collection is a fascinating window into the union's ambitious agenda from 1930s-1970s. Free and open to the public! reuther.wayne.edu/node/15469

Delegates to the 1955 convention browse through an UAW Education Department literature display, Cleveland, Ohio.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Equal justice Fair taxes Political accountability Health care for all Original artwork of a range of workers moving together for causes that benefit the greater good. Made for @uaw.org Solidarity magazine, circa 1980s or 90s. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Watercolor of various workers looking in the same direction. Behind them is a directional sign with posts with messages such as "equal justice" and "health care for all."

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Kids vie for the prize at a watermelon eating contest, likely during a summer picnic for @uaw.org members. Flint Park, 1937. From the Henry Kraus Papers at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social. 🍉

A dozen kids on a small stage participate in a watermelon eating contest, each one holding a large section of a watermelon.

Kids participate in a watermelon eating contest, each one holding a large section of a watermelon. They are really going for it.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“Will Automation Take Your Place?” Front page for UAW Local 199 News. April 1956, from the @uaw.org archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social. 🤖

Union newspaper front page, with image of a metal android embracing a woman.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Local 14 🩸Vampires Chevy autoworkers from @uaw.org Local 14 out of Toledo would receive this stylish jacket after donating 7 pints of blood for hemophiliac children. From the Michigan @aflcio.org News, 1969, at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social archives. 🧛‍♀️🧛

Wednesday, April 2, 1969 MICHIGAN AFL-CIO NEWS
7
PAI Photo
Union Team Saves Blood Victims
So-called Vampire members of UAW Local 14 in Toledo,, Chio, are pledged to give lifesaving blood to aid 40 hemophiliac children on a regular basis. Vampire members work at the Chevrolet plant in Todelo and get a shirt with their name on its after donating seven pints of blood, a jacket after 14 pints.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Bishop Desmond Tutu and @uaw.org president Owen Bieber share words while participating in an anti-apartheid demonstration in Washington, DC. 1986. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Bishop Desmond Tutu and UAW president Owen Bieber share words while participating in an anti-apartheid in Washington, DC.

Bishop Desmond Tutu addresses the crowd during an an anti-apartheid demonstration outside of the South African Embassy in Washington, DC.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Olga Madar (left) and Lillian Hatcher (second to left), with other participants at the @uaw.org Region 10’s First Annual Women’s Conference, reviewing a copy of the "CIO News". The event was held at UAW Local 248's Hall in West Allis, WI. 1956. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Participants in Region 10’s First Annual Women’s Conference look over the program flier and a copy of the "CIO News". The conference was held at UAW Local 248's Hall, West Allis, Wisconsin.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Unique ad for a @uaw.org Region 4 summer school conference, where members and officers could take courses to broaden their skills and become more engaged with their union local. Circa 1960s, from the UAW Education Department Records at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Ad for UAW Region 4 summer school program, with a picture of an old man wearing nothing but a barrel. Title reads, "That Fella Musta Had a Heap of Schoolin'!"

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 06/08/2026

On the 61st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 becoming law, America’s unions remain united in the fight to restore, protect and expand the freedom to vote so we can all make our voices heard and build worker power at the ballot box.

President Lyndon B. Johnson shakes hands with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. after signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Guy made a suit, with matching hat and gloves, completely encrusted with union dues buttons. A great moment in the history of dudes rock, from the @uaw.org archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Picture of a man with a suit covered in buttons. Note in the corner reads, "The good old days, when a good pair of shoes was the order of the day."

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Hello, if you want to do archival research and need to email archives staff a question about the collections, please DO NOT let AI write your query to the archives! This goes for historians, genealogists, media, social scientists, community activists, and the general public.

Man walking down stairs, wearing a sign that reads, "NOT WANTED."

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

So many vital historical records in the newly opened portion of the @uaw.org Education Department Records here at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social. Free and open to the public!

Pamphlet on negotiating for non-discrimination clauses in collective bargaining agreements. “Equal Opportunity and Equal Responsibility.”

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Excited to announce the opening of an addition to the @uaw.org Education Department Records here at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social. These archival materials document the department from the 1940s-1970s, covering member classes, education conferences, and more. archives.wayne.edu/repositories...

Cover for program for UAW Education Conference. Cleveland, Ohio.

Cover for "Building the Union" booklet, an encyclopedia for UAW local education committeemen.

Cover for UAW-CIO summer camp at FDR-CIO Labor Center camp. "Now UAW-CIO Members Can Afford to Send Their Children to Camp, Too."

Notecard for UAW Region 4 summer camp. Has a picture of an old man wearing a barrel, says "This Feller musta had a heap of schoolin'."

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

President John F. Kennedy speaks at the @uaw.org constitutional Convention. Atlantic City, 1962. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

President John F. Kennedy speaks at the 1962 conference, Atlantic City, New Jersey.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Tomorrow is Election Day, Michiganders! Go vote in those primaries.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Got to process some of Sayles’ papers at my first archives job, including working with the Matewan materials when they first arrived. When he visited, I should have asked about Matewan, but I had had so many questions about Jurassic Park 4.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Workers carry banners and celebrate the end of the strike at the Cadillac Fleetwood Plant, Detroit, Michigan. 1937. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

@uaw.org Education Centre in Port Elgin, ON. From the union's 1968 President's Report, in the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

THIS IS THE pleasant setting of the Canadian Region's Education Centre at Port Elgin, Ont., which is to be renamed the George Burt UAW Education Centre, in honor of the longtime Canadian Director who retires at this Convention.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

“Join the Ballot Battalion” @uaw.org voter registration drive booth in Northern California, circa 1950s. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Members of Northern California UAW Locals work a voter registration booth at a county fair, Location Unknown.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Cartoon from @uaw.org Ammunition magazine, 1957. From the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Cartoon of a target with “shorter work week” on the bullseye, a businessman yelling “impossible!” And a giant arrow labeled “Union drive.”

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Draft @uaw.org person versus final product. From the UAW Education Dept Records at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social media.

“Preparing a Guaranteed Employment Plan” publication.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

“A living wage helps everybody” From a 1960 issue of @aflcio.org Education News and Views. Came across this processing the @uaw.org Community Services Dept: Mildred Jeffrey Records at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Art of a city labeled with concepts such as homes and community services, with a foundation of the word “wages.” Caption reads, “A living wage helps everybody.”

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Closer look at the @uaw.org’s Union Answer Wheel, from the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Union
UAW
Answer
Wheel
WALTER P. REUTHER
President
EMIL MAZEY
Secretary-Treasurer
LEONARD WOODCOCK
Vice-President
PAT GREATHOUSE
Vice-President
The UAW has negotiated an historic program of pensions, early retirement, health care and insurance benefits. This answer wheel and the brochures will help determine the APPROXIMATE benefits for which members are eligible under the terms of the 1964 pattern collective bargaining agreements. This is not an attempt to provide detailed answers. The Board of Administration (UAW-Company) or the appropriate local committee should be consulted for information on exact benefits.
PENSIONS • EARLY RETIREMENT • INSURANCE... HOSPITAL-SURGICAL-MEDICAL
• 99

Thinking Of Retiring Early?
On this side, the Retirement Income-Basic Pension
(NOTE: For ages, years of service and
Plus Early Retirement Supplement-
-payable to
rates between those shown on the
age 65. See other side for Basic Pension after 65.
woul, bates betan only bs approximated.)
set
Years of
Service
10
This side to be used only after the early retirement supplement becomes effective. (e.g. Chrysler,
Ford, G.M., Sept. 1965).
Age on Retiring*
55 $
56
$
57
$
58
$
59
$
60 - 65 $
95.24
111.11
133.33
2
4
THEN
3 outy base-
(including
cost of
living and incentive earnings, if any)
$
The retirement income, payable to age 65, will be the smaller of
THIS
2.60
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$
3UY.40
OR
Amounts shown above for age 58 with less than 27 years service or for age 59 with less than 26
years
service apply only in the case of Special Early or
Disability Retirement.
See table on other side for minimum service required for Regular Early Retire-ment.
If worker becomes eligible for full Social
Security before
Age 65, $ 52.00
per month
of his retirement income will be replaced by whatever he receives as a Social Security Benefit.
IMPORTANT:
The supplement is the difference between the basic pension (fig-ured on other side) and the total retirement income (figured on this side). This supplement is lost forever if worker accepts a job that pays $1,200 or more a year after retirement.
If worker retires at age 57 or earlier on Special Early or Disability the benefits shown on the other side apply because they are higher.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The Union Answer Wheel, a tool to “help determine the APPROXIMATE benefits for which members are eligible under the terms of the 1964 pattern collective bargaining agreements.” Made by the @uaw.org and distributed to assist members plan for retirement. From the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

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