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Union workers could decide this election — and their unions know it

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Union workers could decide this election — and their unions know it toggle caption Andrea Hsu/NPR As November 5 draws closer, labor unions are blanketing swing states with tens of thousands of canvassers, deploying far more resources than in past elections in a bid to get the labor-friendly ticket of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz elected. toggle caption Andrea Hsu/NPR …

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3 months, 1 week ago

A year after the strike is the UAW still winning? : Consider This from NPR

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A year after the strike is the UAW still winning? Enlarge this image toggle caption Sarah Rice/Getty Images Sarah Rice/Getty Images A year ago at this time, members of the United Auto Workers Union were feeling powerful and optimistic. The group's new President Shawn Fain had called a historic strike. It ultimately brought Ford, GM and Stellantis much closer to …

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4 months, 1 week ago

UAW files federal labor charges against Elon Musk and Donald Trump over strike-breaking comments

Salon

The United Auto Workers announced Tuesday that the union has filed federal labor charges against Donald Trump and X CEO Elon Musk, citing their pubic conversation Monday in which the former president argued that striking employees should be fired. “Donald Trump will always side against workers standing up for themselves, and he will always side with billionaires like Elon Musk, …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

UAW endorses Harris, giving her blue-collar firepower in industrial states

Associated Press

DETROIT — The United Auto Workers on Wednesday endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president, giving her union firepower for the likely contest this November against Republican Donald Trump. UAW President Shawn Fain said in a statement that the union’s “job” in this year’s election was to defeat Trump. The UAW endorsed Biden’s reelection bid in January, just a few …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Denied again: UC fails a second time to get court order to stop academic workers’ strike

LA Times

Academic workers at UCLA on strike last week. “We are disappointed that the state agency dedicated to the oversight of public employment could not take decisive and immediate action to end this unlawful strike — a decision that harms UC’s students who are nearing the end of their academic year,” said Melissa Matella, UC’s associate vice president for systemwide labor …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Big expansion of UC strike over pro-Palestinian protests: Irvine, San Diego, Santa Barbara next

LA Times

Academic workers at UCLA picket on Tuesday, alleging their workers’ rights have been violated by University of California actions during pro-Palestinian protests and encampment crackdowns. The UC union representing 48,000 graduate teaching assistants, researchers and other academic workers said Friday that it would expand its ongoing strike next week by calling on thousands of workers at UC San Diego, UC …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

How pro-Palestinian protests led to a massive UC strike, injecting new fuel into antiwar activism

LA Times

Striking members of the UC Santa Cruz academic workers union and pro-Palestinian protesters carry signs in front of the Santa Cruz campus May 20. Academic workers on strike at UCLA, UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz chanted this week about “workers rights under attack,” referring to pro-Palestinian union members who were arrested and suspended after recent protests. “Because if, for …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Kaffiyehs and pickets: UCLA, UC Davis workers strike over treatment at pro-Palestinian protests

LA Times

Academic workers at UCLA went on strike Tuesday, saying their rights were violated by UC actions during pro-Palestinian protests. Carrying “On Strike” pickets and some wearing kaffiyehs, academic workers at UCLA and UC Davis walked off the job Tuesday, alleging their rights were violated by the University of California’s actions during pro-Palestinian protests and encampment crackdowns. At UCLA on Tuesday …

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7 months ago

UC academic workers’ strike begins as pro-Palestinian activism enters new phase

LA Times

Hundreds of academic workers at UC Santa Cruz became the first to walk off their jobs Monday, a rolling strike that immediately disrupted university operations as picketing union members forced classes online and restricted access to campus. Jack Davies, a striking 34-year-old graduate student studying the history of consciousness, said that, “at a minimum,” he hoped “to send a message …

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7 months, 1 week ago

‘Maximize chaos.’ UC academic workers authorize strike, alleging rights violated during protests

LA Times

Unionized UC academic workers picket in November 2022. The union representing 48,000 graduate student teaching assistants, researchers and other academic workers across the University of California’s 10 campuses has voted to authorize a strike, alleging that its workers’ rights have been violated at several universities by actions against pro-Palestinian protests, union leaders announced. Rafael Jaime, the union’s co-president and a …

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7 months, 4 weeks ago

We Might Be 4 Years Away From A Historic May Day

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING When the United Auto Workers successfully concluded their strike against the “Big Three” auto manufacturers last fall, the union’s president, Shawn Fain, invited other unions to lay the groundwork for an even more powerful strike on May 1, 2028. “I think it’s really a bold call for organized labor to set our aims higher than managing decline.” …

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11 months ago

'Donald Trump is a scab': UAW endorses Joe Biden for president

Raw Story

After a monthslong delay partly related to electric vehicle policy, the United Auto Workers on Wednesday endorsed Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden, who is seeking reelection in November. Confirming the endorsement in a Wednesday speech, UAW president Shawn Fain stressed the differences between Trump and Biden—who in September became the first sitting president to stand with strikers on a picket …

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11 months ago

‘Honored to have your back, and you have mine': Biden endorsed by United Auto Workers in election

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden picked up an endorsement from the United Auto Workers union Wednesday, an important boost to the Democratic president’s reelection bid as he pushes to sway blue-collar workers his way in critical auto-making swing states such as Michigan and Wisconsin. “He heard the call and he stood up and he showed up,” Fain said of Biden’s …

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11 months ago

Biden gets UAW endorsement after noticeable delay

Politico

Biden addressed union members after Fain, less than a day after the New Hampshire primary all but cemented his general election rematch against former President Donald Trump. “It’s not about anything but our best shot at taking back power for the working class,” Fain said onstage to chants of “UAW!” from the crowd. “Not just the bigger unions but the …

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1 year ago

UAW will try to organize workers at all US nonunion factories after winning new contracts in Detroit

Associated Press

DETROIT — Less than two weeks after ratifying new contracts with Detroit automakers, the United Auto Workers union announced plans Wednesday to try to simultaneously organize workers at more than a dozen nonunion auto factories. The UAW says the drive will cover nearly 150,000 workers at factories largely in the South, where the union has had little success in recruiting …

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1 year, 1 month ago

UAW chief, having won concessions from strikes, aims to expand membership to nonunion automakers

Associated Press

DETROIT — Entering contract talks with Detroit’s three automakers, Shawn Fain set lofty expectations for what he could gain for his union members — and delivered on many of them. Now, Fain has set his latest ambitious goal: To gain UAW membership in nonunion companies across the industry — from foreign automakers with U.S. operations like Toyota to electric vehicle …

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1 year, 1 month ago

UAW chief, having won concessions from strikes, aims to expand membership to nonunion automakers

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1 year, 1 month ago

UAW formally claims contract wins at Big Three

Politico

POLITICO reported last week that UAW members at all three automakers were on track to approve their deals. Background The UAW employed new tactics, applying pressure on all three companies simultaneously — as opposed to singling out one first and using the resulting tentative agreement as a template at the others — and strategically going on strike at individual plants …

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1 year, 1 month ago

UAW members at the first Ford plant to go on strike overwhelmingly approve the new contract

Associated Press

DETROIT — Autoworkers at the first Ford factory to go on strike have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a tentative contract agreement reached with the company. Members of Local 900 at the Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Michigan, west of Detroit voted 82% in favor of the four year-and-eight month deal, the United Auto Workers union said in a statement …

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1 year, 1 month ago

General Motors Reaches Tentative Agreement With UAW, Potentially Ending 6-Week Strike

Huff Post

DETROIT — General Motors and the United Auto Workers union have reached a tentative contract agreement that could end a six-week-old strike against Detroit automakers, a person briefed on the deal said Monday. The UAW reached tentative agreement last week with Ford and it wasted no time in hitting GM where it hurts financially, Nearly 4,000 unionized workers on Saturday …

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1 year, 1 month ago

UAW reaches deal with General Motors that ends strikes against Detroit automakers pending votes

Associated Press

DETROIT — The United Auto Workers announced Monday that it reached a tentative deal with General Motors, capping a whirlwind few days in which GM, Ford and Stellantis agreed to generous terms that would end the union’s six weeks of targeted strikes, pending approval of the rank and file. “The companies are trying to figure out how to transition to …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Some striking UAW members carry family legacies, Black middle-class future along with picket signs

Associated Press

WAYNE, Mich. — As Britney Johnson paced the picket line outside Ford’s Wayne Assembly plant, she wasn’t just carrying a sign demanding higher pay and other changes. All striking Ford workers were called Wednesday by the United Auto Workers to return to their jobs after the union said it reached a tentative contract agreement with Ford that would give them …

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1 year, 1 month ago

UAW escalates strike against lone holdout GM after landing tentative pacts with Stellantis and Ford

Associated Press

DETROIT — The United Auto Workers union has widened its strike against General Motors, the lone holdout among the three Detroit automakers, after reaching a tentative contract agreement with Jeep maker Stellantis. The union wants to wrap negotiations with all three automakers so “Ford and Stellantis workers don’t vote down tentative agreements because they want to see what GM workers …

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1 year, 1 month ago

UAW and Stellantis reach tentative contract deal as union adds strike at Tennessee GM factory

Associated Press

DETROIT — Jeep maker Stellantis reached a tentative contract agreement with the United Auto Workers union on Saturday as it escalated strikes against General Motors by adding a plant in Tennessee. Like the Ford agreement, it will take just three years for new workers to get to the top of the assembly pay scale, the union said. The union also …

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Union workers could decide this election — and their unions know it

A year after the strike is the UAW still winning? : Consider This from NPR

UAW files federal labor charges against Elon Musk and Donald Trump over strike-breaking comments

UAW endorses Harris, giving her blue-collar firepower in industrial states

Denied again: UC fails a second time to get court order to stop academic workers’ strike

Big expansion of UC strike over pro-Palestinian protests: Irvine, San Diego, Santa Barbara next

How pro-Palestinian protests led to a massive UC strike, injecting new fuel into antiwar activism

Kaffiyehs and pickets: UCLA, UC Davis workers strike over treatment at pro-Palestinian protests

UC academic workers’ strike begins as pro-Palestinian activism enters new phase

‘Maximize chaos.’ UC academic workers authorize strike, alleging rights violated during protests

We Might Be 4 Years Away From A Historic May Day

'Donald Trump is a scab': UAW endorses Joe Biden for president

‘Honored to have your back, and you have mine': Biden endorsed by United Auto Workers in election

Biden gets UAW endorsement after noticeable delay

UAW will try to organize workers at all US nonunion factories after winning new contracts in Detroit

UAW chief, having won concessions from strikes, aims to expand membership to nonunion automakers

UAW chief, having won concessions from strikes, aims to expand membership to nonunion automakers

UAW formally claims contract wins at Big Three

UAW members at the first Ford plant to go on strike overwhelmingly approve the new contract

General Motors Reaches Tentative Agreement With UAW, Potentially Ending 6-Week Strike

UAW reaches deal with General Motors that ends strikes against Detroit automakers pending votes

Some striking UAW members carry family legacies, Black middle-class future along with picket signs

UAW escalates strike against lone holdout GM after landing tentative pacts with Stellantis and Ford

UAW and Stellantis reach tentative contract deal as union adds strike at Tennessee GM factory