Labor expert Harley Shaiken says the key to the UAW’s efforts to organize nonunion plants is the success of last fall’s “stand-up” strikes against Ford, General Motors and Stellantis.
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The UAW warned it would strike Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant unless it was able to negotiate a new local contract at the big complex, which already had played a decisive role in last autumn’s stand-up strike. A...
The UAW argues that helping improve wages and working conditions for auto workers in Mexico will give automakers less incentive to “offshore” their operations there.
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While the UAW has said it seeks to organize all nonunion auto plants in the U.S., most of them in the South, VW Chattanooga may provide the union with its best opportunity.
John Lawler, Ford chief financial officer, says the company’s 2023 revenues grew 11% to $176 billion, marking Ford’s second consecutive year of double-digit growth. Net income improved year-over-year to $4.3 billion.
UAW President Shawn Fain is coming under fire from Donald Trump, the likely Republican presidential nominee, over the union’s endorsement of Democratic incumbent Joe Biden for re-election in November.