On defensive from mass anger, UAW President Fain threatens strike action “if necessary” against Stellantis
In an effort to contain the growing opposition of auto workers to layoffs at Stellantis before the 2024 elections, Shawn Fain, president of the UAW, gave a speech on Tuesday that combined vague talk ...
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Fain Motivates VW Workers Heading Into First Contract Talks
UAW President Shawn Fain works his magic again as the newly unionized VW workers head into their first contract talks.
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A Thousand Tennessee Autoworkers Just Joined the UAW
(Emily Elconin / Bloomberg via Getty Images ... roughly one thousand workers at Ultium Cells LLC, an electric vehicle (EV) plant jointly run by General Motors and LG Energy Solution of Korea, joined ...
Newsday17d
Workers at General Motors joint venture battery plant in Tennessee unionize and will get pay raise
DETROIT — About 1,000 workers at a General Motors joint venture electric vehicle battery plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee, will get big pay raises now that they have joined the United Auto ...
The Boston Globe18d
Hotel strikes a headache for guests, hotels, and workers alike
Last fall the United Auto Workers launched a rolling strike against three major automakers, gradually escalating the job action over 46 days. “By having a limited rolling strike strategy ...
Truthout18d
Cornell Has Driven Up Local Cost of Living. Workers Had No Choice But to Strike.
as it does in the UAW contract with the Big Three auto plants. Another significant pain point not addressed by this contract was free parking for workers. UAW members and supporters picket on the ...
PBS18d
How union workers in battleground states could swing the election
But, as our economics correspondent Paul Solman reports, Trump has also shown surprising strength among some workers. I put 30 autoworkers into a group called Auto ... Shawn Fain made his support ...
Newsweek18d
Where Kamala Harris, Donald Trump Stand Among Union Workers: What Polls Say
More Scott Olson/Getty Images Republicans have made inroads ... some of the biggest unions in the U.S., including the United Auto Workers Union, the American Federal of Teachers and the National ...
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Fear of Sinn Féin president blamed for not expanding voting rights
Simon Coveney says some 'shy away from this decision because of political reasons'. Simon Coveney said citizens in Northern Ireland should "be part of choosing Ireland’s first citizen". Speaking in ...
The Hill19d
We need a National Right to Work Act, making payments to unions voluntary
In a recent survey conducted by the Rasmussen Media Group, 82 percent of registered voters agreed that “workers should never be forced to join a union or pay dues to a union as a condition of ...
Detroit Free Press19d
AFL-CIO president: Union workers are powerful. We will decide this election.
If you feel tired or alone right now, think about autoworkers in Chattanooga, right after they made history at Volkswagen, voting for representation by the United Auto Workers. Or our ...
WHDH19d
Boeing faces possible strike by 32,000 workers
And right now, the chances of a deal don’t look good, according to the head of the union local ... including the Teamsters at UPS and the United Auto Workers union at GM, Ford and Stellantis ...