Today on TAP: The Ford contract has broader implications for the labor movement and for working people.
UAW strike
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Damp Labor Autumn
Hollywood screenwriters won their strike, while the UAW strike is ramping up. What’s next?
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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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Divided Auto Workers Vote to Accept GM Contract
Rank-and-file members of the UAW approve the agreement, but with major opposition from workers whose plants may yet be closed.
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Will the UAW Vote Down the GM Contract?
A mixed tentative agreement with no guarantees against outsourcing has some workers vowing to fight on rather than ratify the pact.
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UAW Members’ Resolve Stiffens as GM Strike Continues
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 […]
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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.