UAW (United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America) union poster, 2000
date: label: Date made
content: 2000
name: label: affiliated union
content: United Auto Workers
label: maker
content: Sawick & Sons
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: A United Autobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America poster.
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
topic: label: general subject association
content: Strikes and Boycotts
label: general subject association
content: Labor Unions
label: general subject association
content: labor issues
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History
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content: Princeton Posters
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0213.06
label: accession number
content: 2006.0213
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0213.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Poster
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: white; red; blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 in x 14 in; 55.88 cm x 35.56 cm