United States 1995

Synopsis

The three largest industrial unions in North America announced their intent to merge in July 1995. The United Auto Workers (UAW), the United Steelworkers (USW), and the International Association of Machinists (IAM) pledged to unite their roughly two million members by the year 2000. In a Unity Statement the three unions explained that they could jointly "better win a secure and prosperous future for working men and women in the global economy of the twenty-first century." By July 1999 the merger plans as announced in 1995 were called off.

Timeline

• 1976: United States celebrates its bicentennial.
• 1980: In protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, President Carter keeps U.S. athletes out of the Moscow Olympics. Earlier, at the Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York, the U.S. hockey team scored a historic—and, in the view of many, a symbolic—victory over the Soviets.
• 1986: Seven...