White Shirt Day and “The Birth of a Union”

by Justin | Feb 11, 2022 | Autoworkers, General Motors, Labor History, Organizing, UAW History

White Shirt Day was started in 1948 by Sit-Down Striker Bert Christensen, as a way to remind the younger workers just what the veterans had gone through to win them health care, job security, paid vacations, and pensions. During the strike, GM cut off the heat in the...

In a Landslide Victory, Mexican GM Workers Vote In an Independent Union

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...

Mexican Auto Workers Just Made History By Taking Back Their Union

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...

GM workers at Mexican plant win independent union in test of trade rules

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,...

GM’s UAW workforce profit-sharing check will top $10,000

by Justin | Feb 1, 2022 | Autoworkers, Detroit Free Press, General Motors

In what may be a surprise for many UAW-represented workers at General Motors, the profit-sharing checks this year will top those they got last year despite a year plagued with production disruption due to the global shortage of semiconductor chips.  On Tuesday,...

Jonah Furman: The week in US unions, January 22-29, 2022

by Justin | Jan 31, 2022 | Autoworkers, General Motors, International Solidarity, Jonah Furman, Mexico, Who Gets the Bird

This week will mark the potentially watershed union election at a GM plant in Silao, Mexico, as Dan DiMaggio and Luis Feliz Leon covered for Labor Notes. In the wake of domestic union democracy legislation and new labor protections under the USMCA, an independent...