Reuther

American  

[roo-ther] / ˈru θər /

noun

1. Walter Philip, 1907–70, U.S. labor leader: president of the UAW 1946–70; president of the CIO 1952–55.

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Example Sentences

As the leader of one of the country’s largest unions, the United Auto Workers, from 1946 until his death in 1970, Walter Reuther improved the earnings and quality of life for the more than 1.5 million employees he represented and millions of other Americans as well.

From The Wall Street Journal

By pressuring major motor companies like Ford, General Motors and Chrysler to offer their workers unprecedented benefits, Reuther ensured that laborers got a bigger share of the postwar economic boom American companies were enjoying.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Reuther shifted the tectonic plates under American capitalism in favor of labor,” says Nelson Lichtenstein, a history professor at University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of “The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The 1950 deal Reuther negotiated with GM, dubbed the Treaty of Detroit, set a standard for labor-management relations, becoming the blueprint unions used for future agreements across industries for decades after.

From The Wall Street Journal

Through it and other deals Reuther negotiated, workers gained extensive unemployment benefits, company-subsidized medical care, expanded vacation time and fully funded pensions—and annual cost-of-living adjustments to wages, a first in a mass-production industry.

From The Wall Street Journal