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National Writers Union (NWU)

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  • Leadership overturned in National Writers Union

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    (The author is a member of the National Writers Union)

    Some writers realized that they urgently needed union protection to defend their rights: economic standards and freedom of speech. And so in 1981 they formed the National Writers Union (NWU). Because they wanted to be part of the labor movement, they affiliated with the United Auto Workers union in 1991 and became UAW Local 1981, a nationwide local.

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