by Justin | Jun 23, 2020 | Administration Caucus, FCA, Ford, General Motors, UAW Corruption Scandal
“Structural changes to the United Auto Workers’ training centers jointly operated with Detroit’s three automakers, coupled with new U.S. Labor Department rules, could subject the embattled organizations to greater reporting requirements and the...
by Justin | Jun 22, 2020 | Administration Caucus, Education, General Motors, UAW History, Uncategorized
The strike itself is sometimes actually part of the strategy to control the workers – albeit a costly one. A fascinating series of articles in the Wall Street Journal described “union-management cooperation” to get the workers back to work and build...
by Justin | Jun 14, 2020 | Auto News, COVID-19, General Motors, UAW Local 2250
The union has faith in the protocols, which include social distancing, and urges GM to rigidly enforce them and workers to steadfastly adhere to them. Still, there’s great cause for concern. “They have temperature screenings set up, a questionnaire at each entrance....
by Justin | Jun 14, 2020 | Auto News, General Motors, Organizing, UAW Local 1112
WARREN — If the 1,000 people expected to be employed at the new electric battery plant General Motors and LG Chem are pursuing in the Mahoning Valley will be unionized, labor organizers will have to push for it, and the workers will have to welcome it with a vote....
by Justin | Jun 13, 2020 | Education, General Motors, UAW History
For months, Pete Beltran has asserted that the team concept would erode traditional union protections, damage the national UAW and eventually cost jobs at the Van Nuys plant. He also asserted that the system, which eliminates strict job classifications and calls on...
by Justin | Jun 13, 2020 | Auto News, COVID-19, General Motors, UAW Local 276
The Texas plant that assembles General Motors’ hot-selling full-size SUVs will be back to three shifts Monday. That means nearly 5,000 workers rotating through the massive facility, just as novel coronavirus cases rise in the region and the plant confirms its...
