by Justin | Jul 14, 2020 | Auto News, COVID-19, General Motors, UAW Local 2209, UAW Local 276, UAW Local 598
General Motors Co. has a virus-induced problem with absenteeism at its vital truck plants just when it needs every single body it can get on the assembly line. GM is working feverishly to replenish supplies of the in-demand pickups and full-sized SUVs after idling its...
by Justin | Jul 5, 2020 | COVID-19, International Solidarity, Mexico
Throughout the month of May, as the coronavirus pandemic was peaking in Mexico, Susana Prieto, a top Mexican labor attorney who has been defending workers’ rights for over three decades, was making her voice heard. During a series of public demonstrations in the...
by Justin | Jul 3, 2020 | COVID-19, Opinion, Social Issues
The Great Recession “recovery” abandoned working people, while introducing an insidious new discourse on economic recovery. We didn’t blame up. No bank, no CEO was ever held responsible for their immoral actions that almost brought our economy to a halt. Instead, as...
by Justin | Jul 3, 2020 | Auto News, COVID-19, General Motors, UAW Local 2250, UAW Local 276
The UAW is on heightened alert as cases of coronavirus escalate at two of General Motors’ key plants that local union leaders have already pressed the automaker to close for health reasons. The plants are Arlington Assembly in Texas and Wentzville Assembly in...
by Justin | Jun 30, 2020 | Auto News, COVID-19, General Motors, UAW Local 276
The local union at one of General Motors largest plants has asked the company to shut it down because of a growing outbreak of coronavirus cases in the area. UAW Local 276, representing the nearly 5,000 workers at GM’s Arlington Assembly plant in Texas, notified...
by Justin | Jun 30, 2020 | Auto News, COVID-19, FCA, UAW Local 889
Things are back to normal at the Chrysler Sterling Heights Assembly Plant. This comes after Covid-19 concerns put the brakes on production over the weekend. Saturday evening production stopped at the assembly plant in Sterling Heights. Workers became concerned after a...
