autoworker

English

Etymology

From auto +‎ worker.

Noun

autoworker (plural autoworkers)

  1. Someone who works as an assembly line worker in an automobile assembly plant.
    In the United States, the main autoworkers' union is the UAW, the United Auto Workers.
    • 2024 June 22, Monica Stark, “Grad students will strike at UCD next week”, in The Davis Enterprise‎[1]:
      Though Davis hasn’t experienced the violence other campuses faced, Weintraut said UCD grad students stand in solidarity with UCLA, UCI and UCSD and chose to follow the stand-up strike strategy the UAW used to organize autoworkers.
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