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Union autoworkers won big after striking. A year later, some face an uncertain future
3 months, 1 week ago

Union autoworkers won big after striking. A year later, some face an uncertain future

NPR  

Union autoworkers won big after striking. A year later, some face an uncertain future toggle caption Scott Olson/Getty Images North America TOLEDO, Ohio — For months last year, United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain had warned the Big 3 automakers that September 14 was not a suggestion, but a deadline. toggle caption Andrea Hsu/NPR Weaker car sales have dampened contract …

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Trump uses false claim about Chinese auto plants in Mexico to call for UAW president to be fired
5 months ago

Trump uses false claim about Chinese auto plants in Mexico to call for UAW president to be fired

Associated Press  

DETROIT — Donald Trump made a pitch for votes from key swing state autoworkers during his acceptance speech for the Republican presidential nomination, using false claims to call on them to fire their union president. “The leader of the United Auto Workers should be fired immediately and every single auto worker, union and nonunion, should be voting for Donald Trump,” …

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UC officials charge that academic workers’ strike over pro-Palestinian protests is illegal
7 months, 1 week ago

UC officials charge that academic workers’ strike over pro-Palestinian protests is illegal

LA Times  

As the 48,000-member UC academic workers union announced a Monday strike at UC Santa Cruz over alleged free speech violations during pro-Palestinian protests, the University of California on Friday filed a labor complaint to stop what they say is an illegal action, heightening tensions roiling the university system. The targeting of UC Santa Cruz came after 79% of voting members …

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Transcript of President Biden’s State of the Union address
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Transcript of President Biden’s State of the Union address

LA Times  

President Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Thursday. It doesn’t make the news, but in thousands of cities and towns the American people are writing the greatest comeback story never told. America’s comeback is building a future of American possibilities, building an economy from the middle out and the bottom up, …

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UAW chief, having won concessions from strikes, aims to expand membership to nonunion automakers
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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UAW chief, having won concessions from strikes, aims to expand membership to nonunion automakers
1 year, 1 month ago

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

The Independent  

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UAW strike ends in deals with the Big Three. Is Elon Musk next?
1 year, 1 month ago

UAW strike ends in deals with the Big Three. Is Elon Musk next?

Slate  

In the same way that George Santos is still technically a member of Congress, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the subject of the Surge’s worst recent political take, is technically still running for president. He’s fallen to being tied with or behind Nikki Haley in early-state polls, and both of them trail Donald Trump by a trillion billion points, but he …

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Some striking UAW members carry family legacies, Black middle-class future along with picket signs
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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More Americans support striking auto workers than car companies, an AP-NORC poll shows
1 year, 2 months ago

More Americans support striking auto workers than car companies, an AP-NORC poll shows

Associated Press  

A majority of Americans support higher pay for auto workers who are on strike against Detroit’s Big Three carmakers, although approval of the workers’ other demands is more mixed, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That’s better for the consumers.” The United Auto Workers went on strike Sept. 15 against Ford, General Motors …

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Can autoworkers fuel a labour renaissance?
1 year, 2 months ago

Can autoworkers fuel a labour renaissance?

Al Jazeera  

Towards the end of 1936, autoworkers in Flint, Michigan marched into the nerve centre of General Motors and sparked a match that lit a collective organising flame. Even the recently ratified Ford autoworkers contract in Canada, which he said “was rightly viewed as one of the richest contracts” Unifor, the union, negotiated, received just 54 percent approval. “It is a …

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Why the US embraced 'strike culture'
1 year, 2 months ago

Why the US embraced 'strike culture'

BBC  

How 'strike culture' took hold in the US in 2023 Hundreds of thousands of US workers have walked off the job this year. On 14 September, when members of the United Auto Workers union walked off the job at three Midwest auto factories owned by General Motors, Ford and Stellantis, it seemed a fitting way for the US labour movement …

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UAW aims for drivers’ attention by striking parts warehouses, including two in the Inland Empire
1 year, 2 months ago

UAW aims for drivers’ attention by striking parts warehouses, including two in the Inland Empire

LA Times  

UAW worker Michael Carter, center, cheers along with other workers during a rally in front of the Stellantis Mopar facility in Ontario on Friday. President Biden spoke briefly to striking workers at the GM’s Willow Run parts distribution facility in Michigan, urging the strikers to “stick with it because you deserve the significant raise you need and other benefits.” President …

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Auto workers expand their strike to 38 locations in 20 states. Biden plans visit to show support
1 year, 3 months ago

Auto workers expand their strike to 38 locations in 20 states. Biden plans visit to show support

Associated Press  

The United Auto Workers union expanded its strike against major carmakers Friday, walking out of all 38 parts-distribution centers operated by General Motors and Jeep and Ram owner Stellantis in 20 states but sparing Ford from further shutdowns. President Joe Biden said on X, formerly known as Twitter, that he will visit Michigan on Tuesday “to join the picket line …

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Trump says he always had autoworkers’ backs. Union leaders say his first-term record shows otherwise
1 year, 3 months ago

Trump says he always had autoworkers’ backs. Union leaders say his first-term record shows otherwise

Associated Press  

LANSING, Mich. — When former President Donald Trump visits Detroit on Wednesday, he’ll be looking to blunt criticisms from a United Auto Workers union leadership that has said a second term for him would be a “disaster” for workers. A Trump campaign radio ad released last week in Detroit and Toledo, Ohio, praised auto workers and said the former president …

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Why Auto Workers Are Striking
1 year, 3 months ago

Why Auto Workers Are Striking

Huff Post  

DETROIT, Mich. and TOLEDO, Ohio — Whether they are brand-new temps or 25-year veterans, the auto workers battling the “Big Three” in an unprecedented strike say they are fighting to restore their jobs to the gold-standard working-class careers they were in previous generations. “We gave up a lot,” said Kenyon Reed, who works in the paint shop at GM’s Factory …

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With strike looming, General Motors makes a wage offer, which auto union leader calls ‘insulting’
1 year, 3 months ago

With strike looming, General Motors makes a wage offer, which auto union leader calls ‘insulting’

Associated Press  

DETROIT — General Motors’ first wage-and-benefit offer to the United Auto Workers on Thursday fell far short of the union’s initial demands. Still, union President Shawn Fain called the offer “insulting.” He is threatening to strike against any automaker that hasn’t reached a tentative agreement by the time contracts expire at 11:59 p.m. on Sept. 14. In a text message …

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UAW wins 25% raises for workers at Ohio EV battery plant
1 year, 4 months ago

UAW wins 25% raises for workers at Ohio EV battery plant

CNN  

New York CNN — The United Auto Workers union reached a tentative deal Thursday to raise wages 25% at Ultium Cells, a company that makes batteries for General Motors’ electric vehicles. Even with the raise, Ultium Cells’ workers will still earn far less than UAW members at unionized auto plants currently making up to $32.32 an hour. “This interim wage …

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Stellantis CEO dangles a potential factory relaunch as autoworkers say a strike is possible
1 year, 4 months ago

Stellantis CEO dangles a potential factory relaunch as autoworkers say a strike is possible

Associated Press  

MILAN — Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares on Wednesday dangled a potential relaunch of a shuttered Illinois factory if it can be made more competitive as the United Auto Workers Union says a strike is possible. Tavares told reporters during an earnings conference call that the Belvidere factory, which was shut down indefinitely in the spring, could get a new production …

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New UAW leader already has issues with Detroit automakers
1 year, 8 months ago

New UAW leader already has issues with Detroit automakers

Associated Press  

DETROIT — To say that the new president of the United Auto Workers union is unhappy with Detroit’s three automakers would be an understatement. Asked if closing the Belvidere plant was a red line for the union that would provoke a strike, Fain said he didn’t want to talk about the union’s plans. All three companies have announced plans to …

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UC postdoctoral scholars and researchers reach tentative deal but strike continues
2 years ago

UC postdoctoral scholars and researchers reach tentative deal but strike continues

LA Times  

The University of California and its postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers reached a tentative agreement Tuesday that would elevate their pay to among the highest in the nation — but they won’t return to campus yet in solidarity with some 36,000 graduate student employees who remain on strike. At a news conference Tuesday, Sweeney said the tentative deal would put …

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Photos: UC postdoctoral scholars and researchers reach tentative deal but strike continues
2 years, 1 month ago

Photos: UC postdoctoral scholars and researchers reach tentative deal but strike continues

LA Times  

The University of California and its postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers reached a tentative agreement Tuesday that would elevate their pay to among the highest in the nation — but they won’t return to campus yet in solidarity with some 36,000 graduate student employees who remain on strike. Demonstrators picket at UCLA as nearly 48,000 University of California academic workers …

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Nearly 48,000 UC graduate students poised to shut down many classes, labs and research with strike
2 years, 1 month ago

Nearly 48,000 UC graduate students poised to shut down many classes, labs and research with strike

LA Times  

Hundreds of UAW-represented workers at the University of California and their supporters marched in Westwood in April to protest wages and working conditions. In what would be the nation’s largest strike of academic workers, four UAW bargaining units representing teaching assistants, postdoctoral scholars, academic and graduate student researchers, tutors, fellows and others are set to picket from 8 a.m. at …

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Proposed US EV tax credit gets global pushback
3 years, 1 month ago

Proposed US EV tax credit gets global pushback

Al Jazeera  

Opponents say the US plan for a new $12,500 tax credit for US-built EVs is inconsistent with WTO commitments. The European Union, Germany, Canada, Japan, Mexico, France, South Korea, Italy and other countries have written to United States lawmakers saying a proposed US electric vehicle tax credit violates international trade rules, according to a joint letter. A group of 25 …

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UAW, US Attorney reach deal to reform union after scandal
4 years ago

UAW, US Attorney reach deal to reform union after scandal

The Independent  

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