For decades the labor movement has seen its power diminish in the South. The United Auto Workers on Friday jump-started efforts to reverse that decline. The UAW delivered one of the labor movement’s biggest organizing victories in the South in years when Volkswagen workers in Tennessee voted overwhelmingly to join the union, despite efforts by […]
The United Auto Workers said late Friday that Volkswagen employees in Chattanooga, Tennessee, have overwhelmingly voted to join the union — marking a major milestone for the labor organization and its first successful organizing drive of an automaker outside of Detroit’s Big Three. Union organizing passed with 73% of the vote, or 2,628 workers, in […]
The UAW said Friday night that it made history with its biggest organizing win in decades when workers at the Volkswagen Chattanooga plant in Tennessee voted to join the union. The UAW declared victory around 10:25 p.m. EDT Friday, despite the National Labor Relations Board saying it was still tallying results. The voting started at […]
(Reuters) – The United Auto Workers (UAW) said on Friday it is “extremely disappointed” with truck maker Volvo Group’s decision to set up a new truck plant in Mexico, which the company said would help supplement its U.S. production. The union, in a letter published on Thursday, said it is looking into the contractual obligations […]
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain expects to unionize at least one nonunion plant this year, possibly more. In fact, in the next week or so, Fain told the Detroit Free Press, the union will announce other nonunion automaker plants where 30% and 50% of the workers have signed cards to unionize. It already has […]
Claim: Donald Trump criticized pay raises for United Auto Workers (UAW) union members during a Fox News interview in 2008, saying, “They get their little five percent. They get another two percent. They get another three percent, four percent … and all of a sudden they’re making more money than the people that own the […]
Claim: Donald Trump criticized pay raises for United Auto Workers (UAW) union members during a Fox News interview in 2008, saying, “They get their little five percent. They get another two percent. They get another three percent, four percent … and all of a sudden they’re making more money than the people that own the […]
DETROIT (AP) — President Joe Biden will celebrate his recent endorsement by the United Auto Workers union by visiting Michigan on Thursday, but his time in this critical battleground state with the nation’s highest density of Arab Americans threatens to be overshadowed by growing anger over U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza. Biden’s meeting […]
General Motors’ Spring Hill workers, along with 45,000 others, who are part of the United Auto Workers Union will receive a profit-sharing check come February, according to the automaker on Tuesday. The Spring Hill GM plant has more than 3,000 members of the UAW employed at the 11 million square foot plant. They could receive […]
Washington — United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain, who announced the group’s endorsement of President Biden for reelection last week, explained why the union endorsed Mr. Biden, noting a “very clear difference” between him and former President Donald Trump. “One of them, President Biden, has always been on the American worker and stood with the […]
A clip of a Fox news interview with UAW President Shawn Fain is getting attention from viewers on YouTube not because the labor organization endorsed President Joe Biden for the 2024 election cycle but because the union leader listed so many reasons why former President Trump didn’t deserve the support of working class people. Podcast […]
The United Auto Workers endorsed President Joe Biden for reelection on Wednesday, after holding off a decision for months despite historic support from the White House for the union’s agenda. “This choice is clear: Joe Biden bet on the American worker while Donald Trump blamed the American worker,” UAW President Shawn Fain said, adding: “If […]