As part of the UAW’s tentative agreement with Stellantis, an idled factory in Belvidere, Illinois, will restart production.
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UAW Makes the Brave New Economy a Lot More Worker-Friendly
GM’s promise to cover its EV battery factories under the national master agreement gives workers a share of the gains from going electric.
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GM Battery Workers Will Be Union
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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Kaiser Workers Say They Want the Old Kaiser Back
Once known for strong employee-management relations, its workers now say staffing and pay need to rise to attract and retain the staff Kaiser needs.
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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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What the Writers Won
The Guild’s agreement attempts to restore the elements of the traditional system that made entertainment writing sustainable. It mostly succeeds, with one caveat.
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A Union of Their Own
How a culture of gross sexism in the airlines created America’s most militantly feminist union
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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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Hooked on Bidenomics
How does the president’s economic policy interact with the auto workers’ strike? David Dayen explains.
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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.
