Although overall things are grim for the labor movement, all is not dead yet. Just yesterday, a friend of mine who has a trans daughter who was fired for organizing.
The UAW's much-vaunted drive to organize the South came to screeching halt in Alabama and we've heard nothing about it since. Nelson Lichtenstein considers the issue in a lengthy New.
The United Auto Workers are not messing around with Stellantis continuing to pretend like they don't have a serious union to deal with. The United Auto Workers’ rift with Stellantis.
Photomechanical print (postcard)Undivided backSeries No. 2245el;l(1905) There's a big strike going on at Cornell, as anyone who watched Shawn Fain's speech at the DNC knows. Cornell is going all-in on.
It's not surprising that the first union contract at an all-EV company would come in the old Lordstown plant, home of one of the most important strikes of the 1970s..
One thing about the new UAW leadership under Shawn Fain is a lot more democracy and openness in the union. For years and years, the Labor Notes people saw UAW.
Mercedes has engaged in large-scale union busting around the United Auto Workers campaign to unionize its Alabama plant. As the vote wraps up today, international labor solidarity means Mercedes may.
As the UAW gears up to have the election at the Mercedes-Benz to unionize the plant, Mercedes has been reeling and struggling to respond. Despite the anger it has caused.
