[1] After graduating high school the prior year, Haener got a spot welder position at Wayne Wire Cloth Company in 1937.
[2] She lost her job there after the company's poor working conditions provoked her into campaigning for unionization.
[3] While she started as a department clerk, she eventually got training at the Ford Trade School for inspection with help from the United Auto Workers union.
[5] In an effort to improve wages, Haener and others unionized the clerical and engineering departments under the United Auto Workers as Local 50.
[7] In 1952, Haener was accepted a national United Auto Workers organizing-staff position offered by president of the UAW Walter Reuther.