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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General Motors has seen the writing on the wall and for the first time since it introduced yearly models a century ago is actually ahead of the curve on the.
The rollback of our labor rights continues from the Trump National Labor Relations Board. On July 21 the Trump-appointed National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) eliminated the special legal protections enjoyed.
So....tonight's entry is perhaps a bit disturbing. Basically, in the 1940s, General Motors made a bunch of short films concerning animals doing funny things. I'm not real sure where they were shown, perhaps as shorts before feature films. In any case, one of the classics,...
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.
After well over a month, the GM strike is nearing its end, at least it seems. It seems that the UAW was able to win its financial demands, more or.
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 on how GM betrayed the UAW in the aftermath of those worker sacrifices is well...
The UAW's strike against General Motors continues with no end in sight. This has made me briefly relevant, so here are a few thoughts. First, something that has nothing to.
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.
Sarah Jaffe has an outstanding long-form article in The New Republic on the closing of the General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio. That plant, which I hardly have to tell you all because I know each LGM reader bought and has read A History of...
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.
Tonight's entry in our tour of odd historical boxing videos continues with the glorious theme of cat boxing, this time from a bizarre short put out by General Motors in.