by Justin | Jul 20, 2022 | Administration Caucus, Constitutional Convention 2022, Detroit Bureau, Direct Elections, Joe Szczesny, One Member One Vote, UAW Corruption Scandal, UAW Monitor Neil Barofsky
From the Detroit Bureau: With a potentially close race for the presidency looming this fall, United Auto Workers President Ray Curry signed a memorandum boosting the pensions of members of the Staff Council, the UAW in-house union for UAW representatives responsible...
by Justin | Jul 20, 2022 | Administration Caucus, Constitutional Convention 2022, Direct Elections, Jonah Furman, Labor Notes, One Member One Vote, UAW Corruption Scandal, UAWD in the News
Jonah Furman writes for Labor Notes: Auto Workers (UAW) members made history last November, winning direct elections of national officers (“one member, one vote”) in a membership referendum. Now delegates are headed to a Constitutional Convention where candidates...
by Justin | Feb 8, 2022 | Autoworkers, Detroit Bureau, Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM), General Gordon Baker, Joe Szczesny, Labor History, UAW History
Back in the 1960s, as the Civil Rights movement spread through American cities large and small and discussions of the use of Black Power multiplied, Detroit’s auto factories — and within the UAW — became the focus of protests by the Black working class. ...
by Justin | Feb 8, 2022 | Jonah Furman, Who Gets the Bird
The new multi-billion dollar contract to build an electric fleet for the USPS has fallen to a company that’s decided to move the 1,000 jobs from Wisconsin to South Carolina, breaking the hearts of members of UAW Local 578, and spitting in the eye of those coveted...
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...
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...
