While I'm pretty skeptical of UAW president Bob King's love affair with employee-management cooperation as the keystone of his union's approach, at least one point in his favor is Ford moving the production of two truck lines from Mexico back to Ohio, supposedly because of...
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On March 5, 1972, the workers at General Motors' plant in Lordstown, Ohio went on strike after authorizing it two days prior. They were angry about sped-up work at their.
The response of Tennessee Republicans to the UAW organizing campaign with Volkswagen approval in Chattanooga lays bare just how much the Republican Party hates organized labor: A state senator said.
Reuters has an interesting piece on how Volkswagen's previous attempt to operate a union factory in the U.S. failed and how this relates to its attempts to institute a German-like workers' council through the United Auto Workers. One major challenge I think this attempt faces...
Buying a new car in 2014? Check out the United Auto Workers list of union-made vehicles before you buy (PDF, see here if you don't to link straight to it..
Volkswagen has a plant in Chattanooga. It is used to its company unionism of Germany and wants to recreate that in the United States, in part because labor representatives in.
On May 26, 1937, United Auto Workers organizers, including future president Walter Reuther, walked toward the Ford Motor Company's giant River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan to hand out pro-union leaflets to workers. As they crossed an overpass toward the plant, Ford's private army, led...
When you rely on fully industrialized waterways for transportation, the effects of drought on industry that don't obviously rely on rain (like agriculture) can still be quite devastating. Such as.
In case anyone thinks that companies aren't very excited about the evisceration of unions and labor regulations so that they can go back to pre-1935 ways of dealing with workers,.
On March 7, 1932, several thousand unemployed workers marched toward Henry Ford's River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Upon reaching the complex, the city police and Ford's armed guards, very similar entities, opened fire on the marchers, killing five and wounding more than 60. Henry...
And you thought I was going to write about Leno.... Sarah Goodyear has a nice piece at the Atlantic about the invention of jaywalking. Essentially, cars were seen as murderous.
General Motors is feeling some heat for its support of the Heartland Institute and their extremist climate change denying agenda. It's sad to see GM working with these extremists, but.