by Justin | Feb 5, 2022 | Autoworkers, Dan DiMaggio, General Motors, International Solidarity, Labor Notes, Luis Feliz Leon, Mexico
Auto workers at a General Motors plant in central Mexico delivered a landslide victory to an independent union in a vote held February 1-2. It’s a major breakthrough for workers and labor activists seeking to break the vice grip of the employer-friendly unions...
by Justin | Feb 4, 2022 | Autoworkers, General Motors, International Solidarity, Maximillian Alvarez, Mexico, Real News Network
After years of struggle, thousands of auto workers at the massive General Motors plant in Silao, Mexico, just voted overwhelmingly for a more independent and democratic union. In this interview, recorded before the union election took place, TRNN Editor-in-Chief...
by Justin | Feb 3, 2022 | Autoworkers, Detroit News, General Motors, International Solidarity, Mexico
A new and independent union won the right to represent workers at General Motors Co.’s truck plant in Mexico — a sign that new North American free trade rules are bolstering the nation’s labor rights. The union, known as SINTTIA, won the vote by a wide margin,...
by Justin | Feb 3, 2022 | Organizing, Robert Reich, Unionization
The 1935 National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) once ensured workers’ right to form unions and bargain collectively. But the Act has been steadily weakened by the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, court decisions, Ronald Reagan’s repudiation of unions, and decades of inaction by...
by Justin | Feb 3, 2022 | Guggenheim, Museum Workers, UAW Local 2110
It seems that a virulent strain of unionism, born out of lockdown and pressingly of the moment, has swept the US’s museum sector. This is a new form of collective action: remotely formed, digitally optimised, fluent in social communications, diverse in composition and...
