Not that anyone cares anymore, but the United Auto Workers strike is entering its third week tomorrow. I was on NPR's Weekend Edition today to talk about the UAW and health care, a major issue in the conflict. The UAW has managed to hold onto...
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These have not been great days for the United Auto Workers. The recent closing of several GM plants, including the iconic Lordstown plant, is basically the end of industrial unionism.
On July 27, 1989, workers at the Nissan plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, rejected United Auto Workers representation by a 2-1 margin. This overwhelming lost was one of the first of.
One of the many things that drive me crazy about this country is how our long tradition of venerating capitalists as larger than life figures with moral or political or cultural values we should emulate. This goes back a long way, as late 19th century...
ca. 1950General 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.
As I've been traveling and largely out of internet range/interest, I have not been able to read everything on the overwhelming defeat of the United Auto Workers election to represent.
The United Auto Workers has tried to organize southern auto plants for more than 20 years. It has failed in every major campaign, sometimes even when the auto company is encouraging its workers to vote for the union. It's not that unionizing workers is impossible...
In 2010, two major unions, the United Auto Workers and the United Food and Commercial Workers, supported the Obama Administration's free trade deal with South Korea because they thought it.
Here's a great collection of photos from the Flint Sit-Down Strike, an event that makes the mass poisoning of the Flint water by the state's governor still only the second.
Given that public sector unions are going to be devastated in Friedrichs, new strategies are in order. I love what this UAW local is doing: A local United Auto Workers chapter in Warren is singling out workers who decide to opt out of the union....
This story on the solidarity shown by Kohler's workers in their recent strike in which 94% of the workers voted yes for striking shows how counterproductive two-tiered contracts are for.
The latest in the United Auto Workers' negotiations with the Big Three is pretty interesting. As I discussed earlier, the UAW forged an agreement with Chrysler that at least rolls.