Our History
Motor City Community Credit Union has a heritage that dates back to the early 1900s when one of the first local credit unions was started inside the Windsor Star in 1938. This credit union came to be known as Printers’ Industrial Credit Union. In May 1940, another local credit union was formed within the City of Windsor’s transportation department called the S.W. and A. Credit Union.
As the credit union system started to develop in those early years, the auto sector began some of their own operations when three Ford Motor employees groups formed credit unions in 1943, followed in 1944 by the Motorco plants #1 and #3 Chrysler employees. As these credit unions mainly consisted of employees of specific companies, they were known as "closed bond" financial institutions.
Over the next decade several credit unions were formed to assist the workers in various sectors throughout the region. Over time, they began to share ideas, help each other, and eventually combine efforts to form larger financial institutions. As the financial industry changed, so did the makeup of our local credit unions, with many of the "closed bond" credit unions combining operations and opening their doors to all residents of Windsor and Essex County.
