International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW)
Barbara Somson, Legislative Director
The UAW is one of the largest and most diverse unions in North America, with more than 390,000 active members and 750 local unions. The following is excerpted from an October 12, 2011, letter from the UAW to members of the U.S. House of Representatives. The automotive provisions of the original 2007 trade agreement with South Korea were substantially renegotiated by the Obama Administration in 2010. The revised agreement creates the opportunity to address our Korean trade imbalance by providing greater market access for American exports and stronger safeguards to protect our domestic markets from harmful surges of Korean automotive…