UAW Skilled Trades Push for Contract Veto Power
At the UAW Skilled Trades Conference 1,600 delegates heard that nonvoting members seek parity with production workers and that subcontracting must be controlled. Douglas Fraser and Walter Reuther framed 1967 as pivotal, with a proposed right to strike if auto firms subcontract without union consent, amid calls to segregate nonvoting delegates and unite the ranks.