Retired Worker Chapter of Local 699, UAW

"The moral vision of a society where working-class people reclaim their dignity relies on reining in the rising billionaire dictatorship. NAFTA and similar trade agreements are the social contract as written by multinational corporations. It’s time we rip it up and start over and take back the American Dream." — UAW President Shawn Fain.

To read the union's bold new vision on trade, visit UAW.org/trade

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"There is no way back to the American Dream without undoing the damage of NAFTA and its successor, the USMCA. There is no future for the U.S. working class that doesn’t address the free trade disaster." — UAW President Shawn Fain.

To read the union's bold new vision on trade, visit UAW.org/trade

The UAW Labor Bookshelf, a 1960s program that donated books about workers and unions to public school libraries across the country. Photo from our union's archives at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor & Urban Affairs.

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