Object Details
affiliated union
United Auto Workers
maker
Sawick & Sons
Description
Protest poster collected during the two-day meeting of the Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund and World Bank in April 16-17, 2000. A wide coalition of anti-globalization movements that included labor organizations, protesting the promotion of free trade, and environmental activists arguing against the Bank’s development policies filled the streets where the meetings took place.
One of the participant organizations was the United Auto Workers. Established during the 1930s when a wave of union organizing fueled the rise of several powerful industrial unions. The UAW quickly grew to be one of the largest and most influential labor organization in the country, gaining high wages and benefits for its members, actively working to shape the economic and political life of the country in the decades that followed.
A United Autobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America poster.
Date made
2000
ID Number
2006.0213.06
accession number
2006.0213
catalog number
2006.0213.06
Object Name
Poster
Physical Description
white; red; blue (overall color)
paper (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 22 in x 14 in; 55.88 cm x 35.56 cm
place made
United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
general subject association
Strikes and Boycotts
Labor Unions
labor issues
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1322725