by Justin | Dec 17, 2021 | Autoworkers, Detroit Free Press, General Motors, UAW Local 2164
General Motors will restart operations at its Bowling Green Assembly plant in Kentucky on Monday. GM had idled the plant, where it builds the popular sports car, after a violent tornado swept through Kentucky early Saturday morning, damaging the facility. The tornado...
by Justin | Dec 17, 2021 | Labor Notes, UAWD in the News
On November 20, 210 union members and allies showed up for a Troublemakers School in Detroit, eager to learn how to build power in their workplaces. On December 11 similar numbers did the same in Philadelphia. In Detroit workers heard from special education teacher...
by Justin | Dec 17, 2021 | Columbia University, GEO-UAW Local 1596, Graduate Workers, GSOC-UAW 2110, Harvard University, HGSU - UAW Local 5118, Organizing, Postdoctoral Researchers, Referendum Vote, Student Researchers, Student Researchers United-UAW, Student Workers of Columbia, The American Prospect, UAW Corruption Scandal, UMass Boston, UMass Lowell, University of California, University of Washington, Wayne State University
There are some ploys that non-university employers use to defeat unionization that won’t work with grad students. First, while Amazon may be able to convince its workers that they’ll lose their jobs if they vote for a union, that’s a little harder to do at, say,...
by Justin | Dec 17, 2021 | COVID-19, Kohler, UAW Local 833
Kohler has agreed to suspend its vaccine mandate for all United Auto Workers Local No. 833 associates employed at the company. UAW Local 833 filed a grievance against Kohler, stating the company violated the collective bargaining agreement and the National Labor...
by Justin | Dec 16, 2021 | Columbia Spectator, Columbia University, Opinion, Student Workers of Columbia
Columbia has established a powerful bureaucratic mechanism to protect its reputation when professors and administrators harass, abuse, or rape students and workers. This is done through the Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action.The EOAA’s stated goal is...
