by UAWD Steering Committee | Nov 19, 2023 | 2023 Big 3 Contract Fight, Autoworkers, Detroit News, Ford, Shawn Fain, UAWD in the News
Breana Noble, Kalea Hall, and Hayley Harding write for The Detroit News: Chris Budnick, an 11-year employee at Ford working at the Kentucky Truck plant, voted yes on the deal, even though he would have liked to see a larger wage increase sooner and health care...
by UAWD Steering Committee | Nov 17, 2023 | 2023 Big 3 Contract Fight, Autoworkers, In These Times, Shawn Fain, UAWD in the News
Stephen Franklin writes for In These Times: The recently elected heads of those two unions proclaimed unprecedented and seemingly risky contract demands because they had pitched themselves to their rank and file as new voices that would shake up their unions. This was...
by UAWD Steering Committee | Nov 16, 2023 | 2023 Big 3 Contract Fight, Autoworkers, In These Times, Shawn Fain, UAW Local 600, UAWD in the News
Mindy Isser writes for In These Times: In 2008, amid the nation’s economic collapse, the UAW agreed to major concessions during contract negotiations, and it has struggled to fully recover. The union was also hampered by corruption, with more than a dozen officials...
by UAWD Steering Committee | Nov 14, 2023 | 2023 Big 3 Contract Fight, Autoworkers, Detroit News, General Motors, UAWD in the News
Kalea Hall and Breana Noble write for the Detroit News: Workers at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant this week rejected the agreement, with 54.5% voting no. Chris Budnick, 38, of La Grange, Kentucky, a stamping quality inspector at the plant, originally planned to vote no....
by UAWD Steering Committee | Nov 13, 2023 | 2023 Big 3 Contract Fight, Autoworkers, Jacobin, Keith Brower Brown, UAWD in the News
Keith Brower Brown writes for Jacobin: The UAWD caucus organized “speak out” Zoom meetings for Big Three workers, which brought hundreds together. At a follow-up meeting, autoworkers in the caucus passed a resolution to “celebrate the record gains” while remaining...
by UAWD Steering Committee | Nov 11, 2023 | 2023 Big 3 Contract Fight, The Nation, UAWD in the News
John Nichols writes for The Nation: When the United Auto Workers reached a tentative agreement on October 30 with General Motors, the last of the Big Three automakers targeted by this fall’s 46-day strike, the union’s president, Shawn Fain, declared, “The result is...
