AROUND THE UAW
Oshkosh Corp. union leaders press USPS in fight for mail delivery vehicle production in Wisconsin
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 mail...
UAW History: League of Revolutionary Black Workers Forced Change in the Auto Industry, UAW
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. Read the...
US Sen. Ron Johnson blasted for stance on Oshkosh Defense’s move to manufacture outside Wisconsin
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 165,000 vehicles used...
Jonah Furman: The week in US unions, January 29-February 5, 2022
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...
A Landmark Bill Would Outlaw Bosses Cutting off Healthcare to Striking Workers
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...
In a Landslide Victory, Mexican GM Workers Vote In an Independent Union
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 that...
Mexican Auto Workers Just Made History By Taking Back Their Union
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...
GM workers at Mexican plant win independent union in test of trade rules
A new and independent union won the right to represent workers at General Motors Co.’s truck plant in Mexico — a sign that new North American free trade rules are bolstering the nation’s labor rights. The union, known as SINTTIA, won the vote by a wide margin,...
Robert Reich: So you don’t think labor unions have a future?
The 1935 National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) once ensured workers’ right to form unions and bargain collectively. But the Act has been steadily weakened by the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, court decisions, Ronald Reagan’s repudiation of unions, and decades of inaction by...
State of the unions: why US museum workers are mobilizing against their employers
It seems that a virulent strain of unionism, born out of lockdown and pressingly of the moment, has swept the US’s museum sector. This is a new form of collective action: remotely formed, digitally optimised, fluent in social communications, diverse in composition and...
