The union has secured that workers at General Motors’ joint-venture battery plants will be covered under the Big Three master agreement. It’s a major step in a just transition.
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COLAs Are Great, but Woefully Insufficient
Adjusting wages to the rising costs of living, as the UAW is demanding, is necessary, but the gap between investment income and wages will still keep rising.
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The UAW Strike Could Redefine Biden and the Democrats. Good.
President Biden joined striking workers on the picket line. Former ‘car czar’ Steve Rattner is furious.
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Biden on the Picket Line, Trump in the Wings
The all-but-certain presidential nominees court the nation’s blue-collar voters.
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UAW Workers in California Stand Up as Strike Expands
Strikers have twice had guns pulled on them by non-union truckers seeking to use a distribution center to move auto parts to dealers.
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The GOP Is Beginning to Look Like Europe’s New Far-Right Parties
Holding their working-class base with racist, nativist demagogy may also require a little less laissez-faire.
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The Punditocracy vs. the UAW
Today on TAP: Commentators argue that the union is asking for too much. But a big win may help the UAW organize the non-union competition.
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The Big Three’s Labor Shortages
The only way the UAW’s strategy of rejecting voluntary overtime can work is if Ford, GM, and Stellantis lack enough workers to make cars.
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Can the UAW Strike Help It Expand to Non-Union Plants?
Today on TAP: Probably not directly, but a good contract is a good selling point to workers at those factories.
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Labor’s Militant Creativity
Today on TAP: The UAW builds on a tactic—selective strikes—pioneered 30 years ago by the Flight Attendants.
