DETROIT, Mich.—In the shadow of the GM world headquarters building, the UAW Ford National Program Center, and Huntington Place Arena; the scene that evening of the kickoff gala of the North American International Auto Show, the UAW’s public relations team pulled off a big rally that drew national and international attention to their cause.
In the late afternoon of Sept. 15, just hours after the strike deadline expired, a downtown plaza overflowed with a crowd of about 2,000 fired-up UAW members from several states and also from the Canadian auto workers union Unifor.
