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  • Auto Workers Approve Ford Contract after Hard Sell
    Jane Slaughter
    Oct 22 2011 - 1:34am
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    Ford workers ratified a new contract by 63 percent in mid-October. Their deal was patterned after the General Motors agreement, which passed by about 64 percent but contained smaller bonuses.

  • UAW-Ford Workers Organizing for 'No' Vote

    Early results of voting on the new Ford-United Auto Workers contract are nearly break-even, according to Detroit newspapers. Reformers in the union are organizing to get the 41,000 Ford workers to once again vote “no” on their national contract, as they did in October 2009.

  • GM Settlement Fulfills Low Expectations
    Jane Slaughter
    Sep 24 2011 - 12:01am
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    The United Auto Workers settled the first of the Detroit 3 contracts September 16 with an agreement that appeared to meet the low expectations union bargainers had worked hard to instill in members.

  • Why Connecticut Workers Said ‘No Concessions’
    Mark Brenner
    Jul 25 2011 - 3:16pm

    When Connecticut state employees voted down concessions in June, they touched off a firestorm. Lawmakers painted the vote as selfish union members holding tight to outsized benefits. The truth, of course, is more complicated.

  • Rank and File Auto Workers to Take On Concessions

    How do rank and file auto workers create the awareness and solidarity in local unions to fight concessions in the upcoming Big Three contract talks? Auto workers met November 14 to discuss strategy.

  • UAW Forces Indy Members to Vote on Cutting Pay in Half

    The UAW International is forcing a mail-in vote on a concessionary contract reopener at a GM local—after the membership there voted overwhelmingly not to reopen.

  • New York Nurses: Don’t Celebrate, Negotiate!

    Hundreds of RNs at the Bronx's Montefiore Medical Center celebrated Nurses Week by picketing their employer for a decent contract and safer staffing.

  • Detroit Teachers Agree to New Contract Deal—Sort Of

    The pieces of the Obama education plan are coming together in one of the country’s most troubled school districts—but not everyone in Detroit is happy about it.

  • More Concessions? Ford Workers Tell UAW: ‘No!’ ‘No!’ ‘No!’
    Ron Lare
    Nov 21 2009 - 1:59am
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    “No!” “No!” “No!” It started with a simple question, “Can you hear me?” Bob King, a United Auto Workers vice president, was inside Ford’s Dearborn Truck Plant, near Detroit. He was ready to tell a crowd of rank-and-file members why they should vote for more concessions to the automaker, the only U.S. car company showing a profit.

  • Longshore Contract: Peter Robbed, Paul Paid, Reformers Regroup
    by Mark Brenner
    Nov 19 2009 - 2:41pm

    Rank-and-file longshore workers pushed to reject a contract that top officials negotiated 10 months early, but longshore (ILA) members approved a two-year deal.