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Detroit News: GM plans to invest millions at Orion for new battery pack line
General Motors Co. plans to invest $160 million at its Orion Assembly plant for construction of a new battery pack assembly line, The Detroit News has learned, suggesting to experts the facility could be the next plant transitioned to build the automaker's new...
In These Times: Columbia University Strikers Raise Hell, Saying School Plans to Illegally Replace Them
The dispute over whether the university can legally hire permanent replacements for the strikers centers on competing visions of what type of strike is happening. The union says that it is out on an unfair labor practice (ULP) strike, in which case it would be illegal...
Voices from the Frontlines Radio Interview with Scott Houldieson and Michael Cannon
Mike and Scott discuss the referendum results and what comes next. Listen to the interview here.
JSTOR: The Flint Sit-Down Strike, From the Inside
This fall has brought a wave of strikes, with workers seeking raises and better working conditions. They’re following in a long tradition, and one of its key moments was the 1936-1937 sit-down strike by auto workers in Flint, Michigan. Testimonies from those strikers...
Labor Notes: The Supply Chain Disruption Arrives ‘Just in Time’
What made this unprecedented supply chain disruption hit so hard and fast was the speed at which a single glitch in the production or movement of goods due to a shortage of labor or space can disrupt the supply chains crisscrossing the world. Whether you’re delivering...
Jonah Furman: The past two weeks in US unions, November 20-December 3, 2021
For Labor Notes, I reported on the once-in-a-generation breakthrough in the UAW, where members overwhelmingly won the right to elect top officers. This is the end of a decades-long road to win this right (which members have fought for since at least the early 80s),...
Recognition strike: UC student researchers favor walk out
University of California Student Researchers United (SRU) from all 10 campuses and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have voted yes, 10,622 out of 10,890, to authorize a recognition strike to form a labor union local with the United Auto Workers (UAW).“UC has...
Following claims of retaliation against striking workers, SWC-UAW and University at odds over legality of replacing striking labor in the spring
The union contends that this strike falls into the classification of an unfair labor practice strike, which would make replacement of their labor an illegal retaliatory act. Before going on strike on Nov. 3, the SWC-UAW filed two unfair labor practice charges with the...
Dassault may close New Castle hangar, offshore 130+ jobs
Dassault Falcon, the longtime private jet hangar operator at the Wilmington-New Castle Airport, may soon close the facility after a year of contentious negotiations with its employee union. The potential closure, first reported Friday by WDEL, would impact as many as...
Auto News: UAW vote shows the scars of scandal
The vote, if certified, would cast aside the delegate system that came to be viewed as an enabler for the corruption that went on for years within some of the union's top ranks."In my opinion, it's poetic justice for those who think they're untouchable," said Rich...
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