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...
by Justin | Jan 31, 2022 | Autoworkers, FCA, Ford, General Motors, Jacobin, Mike Parker
In the 1980s, corporations began promoting “quality of work life” and “lean production” schemes as a win-win for workers and bosses. But autoworker Mike Parker insisted these schemes were about better exploiting workers and undermining...
by Justin | Jan 28, 2022 | Autoworkers, Dan DiMaggio, General Motors, International Solidarity, Labor Notes, Luis Feliz Leon, Mexico
Workers at a massive General Motors plant in central Mexico will vote in a landmark election next week to decide which union will represent the plant’s 6,500 workers. A victory by the independent union there would be a big step toward breaking the stranglehold of the...
by Justin | Jan 24, 2022 | Autoworkers, General Motors, Jonah Furman, UAW Local 2164, Who Gets the Bird
Workers who make the Corvette for GM in Bowling Green, KY are also on the strike path, but nothing immediate, as they’re under the national GM agreement in addition to their local negotiations. Read the article here.
by Justin | Jan 22, 2022 | AFL-CIO, Autoworkers, Detroit Free Press, General Motors, International Solidarity, Mexico
The UAW and AFL-CIO are calling on General Motors and the Mexico government to ensure upcoming union elections at a plant producing the profitable Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra are fair and free of intimidation. The UAW is asking specifically that labor...
by Justin | Jan 21, 2022 | Autoworkers, Detroit Free Press, General Motors, UAW Local 2164
The 1,300 hourly workers at the plant, located about an hour north of Nashville, have been without a local union contract for two years.But they recently rejected the plant management’s latest offer because of outstanding demands that local union leaders say...
