AROUND THE UAW
Kalamazoo Public Schools to increase pay for substitute teachers in 2022
As school districts nationwide continue to struggle to find enough substitute teachers, Kalamazoo Public Schools will increase guest teacher pay beginning January 3, 2022. The district’s Guest Teacher Committee, made up of members from Kalamazoo Education Association,...
Kohler agrees to suspend vaccine mandate for UAW Local 833
Sheboygan County’s largest employer has suspended its vaccine mandate, one day before it was to have taken effect. A mandate requiring all Kohler Company employees to be vaccinated by December 17th was announced in October, prompting demonstrations and the filing of a...
2021 Year In Review: The Only Way Out Is Through
For the first time in 25 years, a slate backed by Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) won in a November landslide to lead the country’s largest private sector union. Teamsters United coalition leaders have pledged to organize militant contract campaigns, end...
SRU-UAW: How the Largest Union Fight of 2021 Was Won
Last week, after decades of organizing, 17,000 student researchers across the University of California (UC) won recognition of our union, Student Researchers United–United Auto Workers (SRU-UAW). Spanning 10 campuses and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, we’re now...
Wall Street Journal: United Auto Workers of the Ivy League
While workers at companies like Volkswagen and Amazon have rejected unions, Big Labor is winning with university employees. Last week the UAW was recognized as labor representative for 17,000 student researchers at the University of California. About a quarter...
Video: UAWD Interview with UAW Icon Paul Schrade
UAW Icon Paul Schrade talks about the importance of democracy in the union.
GM to bring workers back to Corvette plant in Kentucky after tornado strike
General Motors will restart operations at its Bowling Green Assembly plant in Kentucky on Monday. GM had idled the plant, where it builds the popular sports car, after a violent tornado swept through Kentucky early Saturday morning, damaging the facility. The tornado...
Troublemakers Schooled in Detroit and Philly
On November 20, 210 union members and allies showed up for a Troublemakers School in Detroit, eager to learn how to build power in their workplaces. On December 11 similar numbers did the same in Philadelphia. In Detroit workers heard from special education teacher...
The Union of Autoworkers and Grad Students
There are some ploys that non-university employers use to defeat unionization that won’t work with grad students. First, while Amazon may be able to convince its workers that they’ll lose their jobs if they vote for a union, that’s a little harder to do at, say,...
Kohler Company suspends its vaccine mandate for UAW Local 833 union members
Kohler has agreed to suspend its vaccine mandate for all United Auto Workers Local No. 833 associates employed at the company. UAW Local 833 filed a grievance against Kohler, stating the company violated the collective bargaining agreement and the National Labor...
