The longest nationwide strike at the automaker since 1970 is reawakening a spirit among union members about what it means to take collective action.
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Memo to Elizabeth Warren: Join the UAW Pickets. And Don’t Leave.
In his column in today’s Washington Post, my buddy E.J. Dionne wrote that “every Democratic candidate for president should be joining the UAW’s picket lines.” Of course they should; the fact that General Motors employs temps to do the same jobs—often permanently—that the company’s official employees also perform is pure exploitation, and a practice that […]
Posted inEconomic Policy
How to Really End Shareholder Capitalism
It’s now increasingly clear that maximizing shareholder value has led to minimizing everything else a corporation could and should do.
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Why the Striking Autoworkers Need to Win Big
Anyone who understands the need for the United States to reduce its stratospheric levels of economic inequality and to give its workers a boost into the middle class has to be rooting for the United Auto Workers members on strike now at General Motors. Those workers sacrificed a good share of their incomes to help […]
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Over 49,000 GM Workers Head Out on Strike
The biggest Auto Workers strike since the financial crisis could serve as a renewal for a union battered by corruption scandals.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Trump Takes on General Motors (And Guess Who Wins?)
The president decries the latest round of layoffs in the auto industry—while doing little to stop it.
