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UAW staffers authorize strike

After a year of bargaining on an initial contract

BY DUNCAN FREEMAN
Posted 12/31/69

Staff organizers at the United Auto Workers have authorized a strike after a year of bargaining with the massive international union failed to result in a first contract for around 40 staffers. 

According to members of UAW Staff United, the independent union representing staffers in UAW Region 9A, encompassing New York City, Long Island New England and Puerto Rico, 98 percent of those who cast ballots last week voted to authorize a strike. 

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