Shawn Fain, the president of the United Automobile Workers, assailed a new executive order signed this week by President Trump as an attack on federal workers.He compared it to the 1981 air traffic controller strike, when President Ronald Reagan fired 11,000 air traffic controllers. "This is...
Dove said she remains optimistic a deal can get done between the UAW and the automakers. "We're asking for cost of living and things like that. It's what we need these days to be able to take care of their families," Dove said. "If we strike, we strike. I'm good with it," s...
Stellantis filed an initial lawsuit against the UAW and Local 230 on Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, claiming that astrike would be illegal and would violate the parties’ contract. Then, on Friday, Stellantis filed eight additional lawsuits against th...
Martin hopes the Arlington strike is the union’s “last push to get them to come to the table with a good offer.” She thinks the top items left to be won are ending tiers and improving retiree benefits. Sign up for our weekend newsletter A weekly digest of ou...
“There’s nervousness but there’s excitement,”UAW Local 51 Vice President Luigi Gjokaj said at a rally in Detroit this week.“If the company comes to the table and they’re fair, we’ll have an agreement. If it has to go to a strike, we are prepared.” ...
“Momentum’s picked up in a big way,” Costello said. “[The strike against the Big Three] was massively influential in waking people up [at the Tennessee plant]. It really turned a lot of people to our side.” U.S. laws say that companies can voluntarily recognize and negotiate with...
Nevertheless, union officials said a strike was not their preference. “We’ve made great concessions to keep the companies profitable, GM, Ford and Stellantis alike,” Dave Green, the regional director for Indiana and Ohio for the UAW, told CNN’s Erin Burnett. “We’re not...
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For a generation now, humble pie has been a dietary staple of the American labor movement, but few servings have been harder to swallow than the failed strike of the United Auto Workers against Caterpillar Inc.
The UAW-Ford agreement is also a win for the union's previously untested stand-up strike strategy which appears to have proved effective, said Vincent. Giant leap for organized labor movements The tentative deal is an even bigger win for organized labor movements, she said. ...