Who's Who in America, 2002. He joined UAW Local 155, the same local where his father had once been shop steward."Yokich Set to Retire as UAW Chief," United Press International, May 31, 2002. Many members of his family were members of Local 155. "Working in the same local, I went to all the meetings with my father," he said. "We would take one car, and there would be four or five of us, all riding together to go to the meetings." As the youngest apprentice, he was required to serve as the local union's recording secretary. He was elected chair of Local 155's political action committee after a year in the union. Yokich became notorious for pushing and sometimes fighting with anti-union workers, managers and others while walking the picket line during strikes. He was arrested in the late 1950s after an altercation on a strikers' picket line in Fraser, Michigan.
