Tag: United Automobile Workers

VW Workers in Chattanooga Seek Vote to Join Union

Volkswagen employees in Tennessee who are hoping to join the United Automobile Workers asked a federal agency on Monday to hold an election, a key step toward the union’s longtime goal of organizing nonunion factories across the South. With the union’s backing, Volkswagen workers filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board asking for […]

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Big Labor Gamble: Push to Unionize Every U.S. Auto Plant

When Shawn Fain, the United Automobile Workers president, unveiled the deal that ended six weeks of strikes at Ford Motor in the fall, he framed it as part of a longer campaign. Next, he declared, would be the task of organizing nonunion plants across the country. “One of our biggest goals coming out of this […]

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Who Really Stands With American Workers?

There was a lot of breathless speculation before Tuesday’s presidential primaries in Michigan, but the actual results didn’t clarify the two most important questions: How many “uncommitted” voters angry about President Biden’s approach to the war in Gaza will abstain in November, even though Donald Trump would surely be much more supportive of Benjamin Netanyahu […]

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Rally in Michigan Urges Protest Vote Against Biden’s Israel Policies

Two days before the Michigan Democratic primary, speakers at a rally on Sunday in Dearborn, Mich., urged voters to withhold their support from President Biden over his policy on the war in Gaza — and said that only Mr. Biden and Democrats who support his Israel policies would be to blame if the protest vote […]

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Biden Administration Is Said to Slow Early Stage of Shift to Electric Cars

In a concession to automakers and labor unions, the Biden administration intends to relax elements of one of its most ambitious strategies to combat climate change, limits on tailpipe emissions that are designed to get Americans to switch from gas-powered cars to electric vehicles, according to three people familiar with the plan. Instead of essentially […]

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Michigan Voters’ Anger Is a Problem for Joe Biden

Betrayal is a powerful emotion, especially at the ballot box. Voters who feel betrayed tend to act like spurned lovers, punishing the offending party even if it means electing somebody who will actually be worse. That’s how America got Donald Trump as president. Many blue-collar workers in factory towns in battleground states like Michigan, Ohio […]

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G.M. Profits Hurt by Unsold Electric Vehicles and Strike

General Motors said on Tuesday that its profit in the final three months of 2023 was depressed by losses stemming from unsold electric vehicles and the cost of a 40-day strike at some of its U.S. plants. The automaker, which has been banking on a rapid rise in sales of battery-powered models, earned $2.1 billion […]

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Biden Receives U.A.W. Endorsement With Conference Speech

The United Automobile Workers union endorsed President Biden on Wednesday, delivering an influential boost as he faces a battle against former President Donald J. Trump to win the support of labor groups. Mr. Biden, who calls himself the “most pro-union president in history,” delighted striking U.A.W. workers but angered auto industry executives when he appeared […]

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Biden to Receive U.A.W. Endorsement With Conference Speech

Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, on Tuesday defied calls to drop out of the race for the Republican nomination, vowing to fight on after a second straight defeat at the hands of former President Donald J. Trump. In rousing remarks, Ms. Haley painted a picture of a country and a world in […]

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U.A.W. Announces Drive to Organize Nonunion Plants

The United Automobile Workers union announced Wednesday that it was undertaking an ambitious drive to organize plants owned by more than a dozen nonunion automakers, including Tesla and several foreign companies — a goal that has long eluded it. The move comes weeks after the U.A.W. won new contracts from General Motors, Ford Motor and […]

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U.A.W. Members at General Motors Ratify Contract

United Automobile Workers union members at General Motors have ratified a tentative contract in a closely contested vote, according to a tally of results from all the G.M. locals posted by the union on Thursday. The contract had the support of 55 percent of the nearly 36,000 members voting. Majorities at several large G.M. factories […]

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G.M.’s New Contract With U.A.W. Faces Surprisingly Stiff Opposition

A United Automobile Workers union vote on a tentative contract agreement with General Motors that provides record wage increases has run into unexpectedly strong resistance from veteran workers. Voting at most union locals has been completed and the final result, due as early as Thursday evening, will very likely be decided by a narrow margin. […]

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Biden to Celebrate Auto Plant Reopening in Illinois

President Biden plans to meet with the head of the United Automobile Workers in Belvidere, Ill., on Thursday to celebrate the reopening of an assembly plant and promote a landmark labor deal with Detroit’s Big Three automakers, a trip that could help him shore up critical union support. The visit to the Stellantis plant comes […]

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‘Our Family Can Have a Future’: Ford Workers on a New Union Contract

Before autoworkers went on strike in September, Dave and Bailey Hodge were struggling to juggle the demands of working at a Ford Motor plant in Michigan and raising their young family. Both were working 12-hour shifts, seven days a week, to earn enough to cover monthly bills, car payments and the mortgage on a home […]

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Job Growth Slows, Sowing a Mix of Concern and Calm

The labor market has been relentlessly hot since the U.S. economy began to recover from the shock of the pandemic. But there are signs of cooling as the holidays approach. Employers added 150,000 jobs in October on a seasonally adjusted basis, the Labor Department reported on Friday, a number that fell short of economists’ forecasts. […]

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U.A.W. Strike Gains Could Reverberate Far Beyond Autos

Laying out a tentative contract agreement to end a six-week wave of walkouts at Ford Motor, the United Automobile Workers president made an unusual pitch to other labor unions. “We invite unions around the country to align your contract expirations with our own,” the U.A.W. leader, Shawn Fain, said Sunday night. “If we’re going to […]

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A Historic Strike (and Win) for Autoworkers

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Union Victories May Lift Biden, as U.A.W. Targets Tesla and Others

The United Automobile Workers’ big wins with Detroit’s Big Three automakers could also prove to be a significant political victory for President Biden, who openly sided with striking workers to pressure the companies, General Motors, Ford and Stellantis, to produce generous concessions. But the U.A.W.’s turn now toward nonunionized automakers like Tesla, Hyundai, BMW and […]

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United Auto Workers Strike a Blow for Equality

It’s not officially over yet, but the United Auto Workers appear to have won a significant victory. The union, which began rolling strikes on Sept. 15, now has tentative agreements with Ford, Stellantis (which I still think of as Chrysler) and, finally, General Motors. All three agreements involve a roughly 25 percent wage increase over […]

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G.M. Said to Reach Tentative Deal With U.A.W.

General Motors and the United Automobile Workers union reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract on Monday, according to two people familiar with the matter, setting the stage for an end to the union’s six-week wave of strikes against the three large U.S. automakers. The agreement comes days after the union announced tentative […]

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U.A.W. Reaches Tentative Deal With Stellantis, Following Ford

The United Automobile Workers union reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract with Stellantis, the parent company of Chrysler, Jeep and Ram, on Saturday, a person familiar with the matter said on Saturday. The agreement comes three days after the union and Ford Motor announced a tentative agreement on a new contract. The […]

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Deal With U.A.W. Won’t Put Ford at a Disadvantage, Analysts Say

When autoworkers went on strike in September, executives of the large U.S. automakers warned that union demands could significantly undermine their ability to compete in a fast-changing industry. The chief executive of Ford Motor said that the company might have to scrap its investment in electric vehicles. The future doesn’t look quite that bleak now […]

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Why the U.A.W.’s President Has Taken a Hard Line

When Shawn Fain sought the presidency of the United Automobile Workers union last year, he ran on a platform that promised: “No corruption. No concessions. No tiers.” That pledge encapsulated many members’ frustrations with years of union scandal and concessions to the three big Detroit automakers, including the creation of a lower tier of wages […]

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U.A.W. and Ford Negotiators Reach Accord on Contract Terms

Negotiators for the United Automobile Workers and Ford Motor have agreed on terms of a new four-year labor contract, people briefed on the talks said Wednesday, nearly six weeks after the union began a growing wave of walkouts against the three Detroit automakers. The deal includes a roughly 25 percent pay increase over four years, […]

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G.M. Profit Down 7% in Strike-Affected Quarter

General Motors said on Tuesday that it made $3.1 billion in profit from July through September, a year-over-year decline of more than 7 percent that was due partly to the six-week strike by the United Automobile Workers, which has idled two of the company’s vehicle plants and 18 of its parts distribution centers. G.M. said […]

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U.A.W. Expands Strike to a Ram Plant in Michigan

The United Automobile Workers union on Monday added a large Ram pickup truck plant that employs 6,800 workers in Michigan to its strikes against the three large U.S. automakers. Union workers walked out of the plant, which is owned by Stellantis, in Sterling Heights, Mich., Monday morning, in the U.A.W.’s latest attempt to pressure the […]

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Nonunion Workers Are Playing a Big Role in the Autoworkers’ Strike

Tens of thousands of people who work for Toyota in Kentucky, Mercedes-Benz in Alabama or Tesla in Texas are technically not involved in the high-stakes negotiations taking place between labor and management in and around Detroit. But they are very much a presence. Executives at Ford Motor, General Motors and Stellantis, the parent of Chrysler, […]

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For Bill Ford, ‘Every Negotiation Is a Roller Coaster’

As a 25-year-old junior executive at the car company that bears his last name, William Clay Ford Jr. had a bracing introduction to labor negotiations when a union official demanded that he stand up and vouch that he was made of the same stuff as his great-grandfather Henry Ford. Mr. Ford, now the company’s executive […]

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