by Justin | Feb 14, 2022 | American Prospect, Oshkosh, UAW Local 578
Oshkosh Defense plans to move the facility producing the vehicles to the anti-union state of South Carolina, away from the United Auto Workers–organized employees of Oshkosh in northeastern Wisconsin. Oshkosh told UAW workers for years that the USPS contract would not...
by Justin | Feb 9, 2022 | Oshkosh, UAW Local 578
Oshkosh Corp. has more than enough capacity to build U.S. Postal Service’s next generation postal delivery vehicle in Wisconsin, UAW leaders told USPS Board of Governors Tuesday. The union has been trying to wrestle back the work of building up to 165,000 new...
by Justin | Feb 8, 2022 | Oshkosh, UAW Local 578
Democrats blasted U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson’s statements saying he wouldn’t get involved in a Wisconsin company’s decision to bring 1,000 jobs to South Carolina instead of Oshkosh. At issue is a contract worth billions to replace the fleet of some...
by Justin | Feb 3, 2022 | Oshkosh, Steven Greenhouse, The Guardian, UAW Local 578
Wisconsin residents cheered when Oshkosh Defense, a Wisconsin-based manufacturer, won a large contract to build a new generation of post office delivery vehicles – up to 165,000 – but now Wisconsinites are fuming about the company’s decision to produce those...
by Justin | Oct 8, 2021 | Oshkosh, UAW Local 578
After decades of working together to build the company’s reputation nationwide and recruit a talented and trustworthy workforce and after proving ourselves again and again on the production line, the writing is on the wall: Oshkosh Defense is disregarding the union...
by Justin | Sep 23, 2021 | Oshkosh
Turns out Oshkosh is eager to make those gasless mail trucks, all right, but not with its unionized workforce. Instead, it says it will decamp to ferociously anti-union South Carolina, which annually ranks either number one or number two on the list of least unionized...
