by Vail Kohnert-Yount | Jun 20, 2022 | Labor Notes, One Member One Vote
We were delighted to see so many UAW members participate in the Labor Notes conference this year! We learned about everything from new organizing from higher education workers in Local 2865 and Student Researchers United, to how to Vote NO on concessionary contracts...
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 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 | In These Times, NLRB
On Wednesday, House Democrats introduced a landmark bill that would make it illegal for employers to cut off healthcare benefits to striking workers. The Striking Workers Healthcare Protection Act would subject employers to a fine of up to $50,000, which could be...
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...
