You and I know that Joe Biden has been very good on the labor front. But there's only so much he can do in the face of opposition in Congress. The PRO Act isn't going to pass (I doubt it has 50 votes, never mind...
united auto workers
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.
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 is really quite likely here. United Auto Workers members overwhelmingly granted union leaders authorization to...
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 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 Lou Seaton (GM). Many of our unions are not actually democratic, or at least don't...
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.
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 way, it was. The jobs paid well and had great benefits, won by unions after...
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.
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.