UAW

  • Ontario Caterpillar Workers Locked Out for Refusing Half Pay
    Jane Slaughter
    Jan 30 2012 - 1:00pm

    “They issued an ultimatum, I wouldn’t call it bargaining,” said union negotiator Bob Orr. Caterpillar, despite $4.9 billion in profits, is trying to force 50 percent wage cuts by locking out 465 skilled locomotive builders.

  • Protesting Speed-Up, Korean Auto Worker Sets Self on Fire

    A South Korean Hyundai Motor worker set himself afire Sunday after management responded to his request to slow the pace of production by stepping up discipline. The 44-year-old unionist, Shin Sung-hun, is in critical condition.

  • Clericals Say UAW Should Practice What It Preaches

    Clerical workers at United Auto Workers headquarters in Detroit are protesting layoffs that will take effect Friday. They picketed this month carrying signs that read “What about shared sacrifice?” and “Justice for ALL workers.”

  • What Can Unions Learn from the Occupy Movement?
    Jane Slaughter
    Nov 17 2011 - 4:10pm

    As tens of thousands celebrate the two-month anniversary of the Occupy phenomenon, why has Occupy's message—so similar to labor's—resounded more forcefully than unions' words and deeds?

  • Auto Workers Win Right to Wear Protest T-Shirts

    Workers at General Motors’ Fairfax plant in Kansas City, Kansas, have won the right to wear T-shirts that call their factory a "penitentiary." GM backed down and reversed the suspensions of workers disciplined for wearing the shirts.

  • Chrysler Workers Object to Imposed Contract

    The executive board of the Auto Workers imposed the contract with Chrysler on the entire membership this week, despite the fact that a majority of skilled trades workers and a substantial minority of production workers voted against the agreement.

  • 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.

  • Auto Workers Approve Ford Contract after Hard Sell

    Ford workers ratified a new contract by 63 percent in mid-October. Though it was rich in up-front money, UAW reformers campaigned against the deal because it provides no bridge to first-tier wages for second-tier workers. First-tier wages are frozen for four more years and the hefty-looking bonuses will not come close to recovering losses from years of concessions.

  • Ford Workers Opposing Contract in Early Votes

    Early results of voting on the new Ford-United Auto Workers contract give an edge to opponents of the agreement. Reformers in the union are organizing to get the 41,000 Ford workers to again vote “no” on their national contract, as they did in October 2009.

  • 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.