Reading this story about GM profits falling short because of the UAW strike and the slack demand for electric vehicles gets to a good point I have made before, which is that you cannot rely on the market to get people to switch to electric....
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The future of the United Auto Workers fundamentally rests on organizing the massive parts of the unorganized American auto industry. The big contract victories (which were approved by members by.
Gee, I wonder why all these Nissan workers in the United States are getting huge wage gains? The agreement reached between the United Automobile Workers (UAW) and the Big Three.
Gee whiz, I wonder why this is happening? South Korean automaker Hyundai has joined Honda and Toyota in raising factory worker wages after the United Auto Workers union reached new contract agreements with Detroit automakers. Hyundai said Monday it will raise factory worker pay 25%...
I am at a conference and so don't really have time to blog at all, but I do feel the need to at least mention that the UAW has come.
The United Auto Workers have shown zero signs of breaking in their strike that now has reached over a month. UAW president Shawn Fein sees the companies continuing to concede.
Blogging has been light because I have had people in town for most of the last three weeks. Meanwhile, there's a lot of news on the labor front that has developed. Probably the most important thing is the UAW winning big on the future of...
This is the grave of Carl Fisher. In the history of America, some people are just born hustlers. They aren't necessarily dumb (or smart) and they aren't necessarily evil, though.
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.
A view of the main entrance to the General Motors assembly plant in the city of Silao, Mexico, Tuesday Feb. 12, 2008. General Motors Corp. reported a $38.7 billion loss for 2007, the largest annual loss ever for an automotive company. (AP Photo/Mario Armas) That...
Donald Trump really brought the jobs back to Michigan and Pennsylvania.....Four years after he won the Midwest by vowing to revitalize the U.S. manufacturing workforce, President Donald Trump is campaigning.
Well, something is moving into the shuttered Lordstown GM plant. It's a little bit. General Motors has sold its factory in Lordstown, Ohio, to a company that says it will.