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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Working-Class Joe
Today on TAP: Biden is truly helping working people. What will it take for more voters to get that?
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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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Rural Letter Carriers Push for Union Decertification
Substantial wage losses from a controversial evaluation system have left workers frustrated. But there’s concern that the proposed cure is worse than the disease.
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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.
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UAW Strikes Built the American Middle Class
Today’s strikers are seeking to renew the broadly shared prosperity that earlier UAW work stoppages created.
