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UNION-MADE AUTOS • AFL-CIO NATIONAL BOYCOTTS
Union-Made, U.S.-Made Cars, Vans, Pickups
Listed here are 2000-model year cars. Light trucks and vans that are assembled in the United States by employees working under United Auto Workers (UAW) contracts. Models that are assembled only in the U.S. are listed separately from models that are assembled both in the U.S. and another country. Makes and models not listed are imported or assembled in the U.S. by nonunion workers. The list is adapted from information supplied by the UAW.
CARS UNION-MADE IN THE U.S.Buick
Oldsmobile
Plymouth
Pontiac
Saturn
CARS UNION-MADE IN THE U.S. AND IMPORTEDChevrolet
Ford
Mercury
Pontiac
Toyota
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LIGHT TRUCKS AND VANS UNION MADE IN THE U.S.AM General
Cadillac
Chevrolet
Chrysler
Dodge
Ford
GMC
Isuzu
Jeep
Lincoln
Mazda
Mercury
Nissan
Oldsmobile
Pontiac
Toyota
LIGHT TRUCKS AND VANS UNION-MADE IN THE U.S. & IMPORTEDChevrolet
Dodge
Ford
GMC
Plymouth
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How to be Certain It's Union-made in the U.S.A.
If you're looking at one of the new cars, light trucks or vans that are both union-made in the U.S. and imported (see above), you can determine where it was assembled by checking two labels each new vehicle sold in the U.S. is required by law to display.
Simplest and quickest is the "Parts Content Information" sheet that usually is posted on a window.
It lists, among other things, the location of the "final assembly point" of each vehicle.
The second label to check, the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN), is more difficult to read.
The VIN is stamped into a small metal plate attached to each vehicle's dashboard on the driver's side, often near the juntion of the dashboard and the windshield.
If the first character of the 17-character VIN is a 1 or a 4, the vehicle was assembled in the U.S.
Here is the meaning of some of the other first characters of the VIN:
"2" Canada; "3" Mexico; "9" Brazil; "J" Japan; "K" Korea; "S" England; "W"; Germany; "Y" Sweden; "Z" Italy