by Justin | Apr 16, 2021 | General Motors, UAW Local 1097
About 770 hourly workers at General Motors Rochester Operations plant in New York are in a fight for their future. Come August, nearly 215 employees at Rochester Operations — about a third of its present workforce — will lose their jobs as GM gives some of the...
by Justin | Mar 1, 2021 | General Motors, Labor History
The UAW Women’s Emergency Brigade bravely placed themselves between the Flint police and the GM Sitdown Strikers. They helped supply the strikers in the factory with food and clothing among other things. The documentary With Banners and Babies tells their...
by Justin | Feb 23, 2021 | General Motors, Labor History, UAW History
The new book “Midnight in Vehicle City” by Edward McClelland documents one of the biggest victories for workers’ rights in the United States, which happened during one bitterly cold winter in Flint, Michigan. Listen to the audio here.
by Justin | Jan 5, 2021 | Auto News, General Motors
GM said Monday it will convert more than 650 hourly employees from temporary to regular full-time status at its plants across nine states by the end of this month as part of its 2019 national contract with the UAW. The bulk of those workers, 300, are at GM’s...
by Justin | Dec 31, 2020 | General Motors
A worker at a General Motors plant in northeastern Indiana died after he was hit by a metal wall that toppled onto him when it was struck by a forklift, police said. The Marion Police Department said Mark McKnight of Gas City died Wednesday morning at GM’s...
by Justin | Dec 28, 2020 | General Motors, Labor History, Organizing, UAW History
84 years ago today, the 1936-37 Flint sit down-strike began at General Motors. It was a defining moment for the UAW that would end up improving the lives of millions of workers across the country. Jeremy Brecher’s account of the great sit-down strike in the...
