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Michael Wasser is American Rights at Work’s summer 2010 research intern. He has previously interned at the Lansing Delta Township Assembly Plant.

Throw away those preconceptions: this is not your father’s United Auto Workers.

As new president Bob King announced at the Center for Automotive Research’s Management Briefing Seminars this week, “a more visionary and stronger 21st-Century UAW is being born.” In this re-birth, the union recognizes its role as a partner with management in manufacturing high quality vehicles while still protecting the rights of workers.

Though the idea of the UAW collaborating with an automaker may seem revolutionary to some, President King’s announcement this week simply reveals a growing trend. Within General Motors, for example, over the course of several decades, the UAW expanded its collaboration with management through a series of initiatives. Read more »