Today on TAP: An agreement with generous raises that allowed for a low-wage, non-union EV sector would be far worse than a strike.
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Posted inWorking in America
UAW Brokers a Tentative Agreement With GM Battery Maker Ultium Cells
While the agreement gives Ultium Cells workers a raise of more than 20 percent, membership overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike of the Big Three automakers after September 14.
Posted inWorking in America
The Conflicted Analysis of What an Auto Workers Strike Would ‘Cost’
General Motors and Ford are clients of Anderson Economic Group, which released a study about a potential strike’s cost to ‘the economy.’
Posted inWorking in America
What Might Finally Resolve the Hollywood Strikes
The unions raised the need for antitrust enforcement, and the Biden administration’s top antitrust cops paid attention.
Posted inWorking in America
Striking Workers Face Another Opponent: U.S. Labor Laws
Unionizing is not against the law; but the law is against unionizing.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
It’s All the Same Fight
Reflections on a week in the age of corporate power
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Barbenheimer Reveals the Drastic Choices of Hollywood Executives
The big opening weekend contrasts with everything the studios have been doing for the last couple of decades.
Posted inWorking in America
What’s at Stake in the Hollywood Writers’ Strike
Streaming has given the studios one more way to exploit writers—and the writers are pushing back.
Posted inPodcasts
Trump’s Legal Woes Mount
The disgraced former president is now facing probable racketeering charges.
Posted inWorking in America
Inside the Teamsters’ Historic Contract at UPS
The union’s new leadership used effective messaging and rank-and-file organization to win significant gains.