Way too often, union actions are framed entirely within the idea that their number one job is to support the Democratic Party and its goals. We are seeing this all the time right now, all because the United Auto Workers has not yet endorsed Joe...
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It is looking more and more likely that the United Auto Workers will strike when the deadline of September 15 hits. UAW President Shawn Fain was doubtful Monday when asked.
A union getting a strike approval vote is not generally that significant. It is something that happens all the time. But the UAW is cranky and I think a strike.
The United Auto Workers is a cranky, grumbling union right now. The UAW has been subjected to the horrors of two-tier contracts for years. That union's old close ties to the Democratic Party have been frayed for a couple of reasons. One was the Obama...
The United Auto Workers has had only moderate success in organizing new faculties in auto, with particular trouble in the South. Just because a new facility opens doesn't mean it.
ca. 1950 General Motors contract settlement- first partially paid hospitalization and medical program at union shop. J.W. Livingston, T.A. Johnstone, Irving Bluestone, Guy Nunn, Walter Reuther, Harry Anderson (GM), and.
On June 15, 1942, workers at a General Motors factory engaged in a wildcat strike to protest new policies that forbade them from smoking on the job. While this may seem like an odd incident, it actually shines quite a light on working class culture...
It's a bit galling that the New Gilded Age has unleashed uncontrolled rich people behavior with levels of naked corruption unseen in decades, with the most corrupt of all of.
In our current public conversation about jobs, too often the media and the public point back to the era of the unionized factory job as the golden age. In one.
Sarah Jaffe has a typically excellent article about how the former GM workers at the shuttered Lordstown plant feel about the deal the UAW made with the company. They aren't real happy. I provided a few words about the matter for the article. In the...
During the auto bailout, GM demanded all sorts of things from the United Auto Workers, including the hideous two-tiered contracts that the union is fighting against today. Julianne Malveaux's essay.
The GM strike is now in its third week. Strike pay is about to kick in. This is a long, hard struggle. Among the many things that the UAW is.