The 21st century finds the U.S. auto industry facing new global and environmental challenges - reducing emissions, decreasing dependence on oil, and recycling. Around the world, cars are being completely reinvented.

The UAW fights for a high road economic strategy where quality jobs mean quality communities, where economic opportunity and prosperity are shared among all citizens. Vigorously advancing historic struggles for workers'' rights, the UAW organizes workers in every sector of the economy. In global solidarity, they work with unions around the world and are a key member of the International Metalworkers Federation, a world union of unions, founded in 1893 representing 25 millions members in more than 200 unions in 100 countries.

Just as in the production line pictured above, the U.S. auto industry turned a corner in the 1990s. Gains in market share grew with the size of vehicles. Production technology got smarter. Yet this SUV, finished by more empowered workers rolls into an unseen future.

The observer stands here, symbolically on an elevated perch...maybe a supervisor overseeing Labor Matters...maybe someone scanning the future of auto making in America...maybe this is you looking into the world of auto workers through the eyes of art.