Equal
pay, child care facilities and an end to discrimination against
pregnant workers are just a few of the battles UAW women have
been involved in. Check out some of these powerful women who
took a stand and made the UAW stronger.
Matilda
Rabinowitz
Helped
lead the first auto strike in 1913. She was part of the
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the first union
to unite workers at a whole plant, rather than just a
specific trade. Twenty years later, autoworkers came together
in one union, the UAW, which even adopted the IWW anthem,
"Solidarity Forever."
Odessa
Komer
Served
as a UAW International vice president for six terms (18
years).
She headed up the Aerospace Department and played key
roles in such groups as the Coalition of Labor Union Women
and the National Coalition for the Reproductive Rights
of Workers.
Sojourner
Truth
Traveled
across the country amazing audiences with her fiery preaching
as she fought for women workers' rights in the mid- to
late 19th century. A slave for the first 30 years of her
life, she spoke before Congress and two presidents. She
is best known for a speech in which she said, "I have
plowed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man
could head me off. And ain't I a woman?"
Carolyn
Springer
Chosen
by fellow workers to serve on the UAW's first bargaining
committee.
Served
as a UAW International vice president for six terms (18
years). 
