[3] Other sectors organized by UWC were timber workers, truck drivers and car mechanics.
[3] Frank Walker served as the general secretary of UWC, Emett Harmon was its president and Esmael A. Sherif its executive vice-president.
[3] In 1977 President William R. Tolbert Jr. urged the different trade union centres to unite into a single body.
[7] In 1977, following labor agitations and accusations of corruption, the NMWU Local 3 (mine workers at LAMCO) broke away from UWC and formed an independent union.
[3][9] In 1980 UWC and LFTU merged, forming the Liberian Federation of Labor Unions (LFLU).