Tag: UAW

December 9, 2022

Workers at a General Motors joint venture electric vehicle battery factory in Ohio have voted to join the United Auto Workers union. About 900 workers at the new plant near Warren, Ohio, are the first to decide on union representation […]

March 3, 2022

Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk said he was open to the United Auto Workers union holding a vote about organizing labor at the company after long resisting such a move. “Our real challenge is Bay Area has negative unemployment, […]

December 11, 2019

DETROIT — Federal agents subpoenaed the UAW in July for visitor logs and security camera footage in the days following a fire at the union’s Solidary House headquarters in Detroit, and the union turned over the requested information shortly after, […]

October 8, 2019

“We have made it clear that there is no job security for us when GM products are made in other countries for the purpose of selling them here in the U.S.A.,” UAW Vice President Terry Dittes wrote in a letter […]

September 13, 2019

Just two days before the UAW’s contracts with Detroit automakers were due to expire, U.S. prosecutors on Thursday arrested and charged a senior union official with embezzlement, and listed several unnamed UAW officials who also were involved. UAW negotiators already […]

September 11, 2019

DETROIT — Union leaders from General Motors Co. factories across the country are flying into Detroit this weekend to make a potentially key decision impacting some 46,000 rank-and-file UAW members. GM and the UAW’s current four-year labor pact expires Saturday […]

April 3, 2019

DETROIT — General Motors is requesting a judge dismiss a UAW lawsuit that claims three of the automaker’s planned U.S. plant shutdowns violate their collective bargaining agreement. The UAW sued GM in February alleging a breach of contract because the […]

August 7, 2017

Nissan Motor Co. workers dealt the United Auto Workers another blow in its decades-long attempt to organize Japanese automakers’ U.S. car plants, as employees at a Mississippi factory voted against joining the union. Workers at the facility in Canton voted […]

April 27, 2016

Eight months ago, Philadonna Wade started temporary work on an axle assembly line for an auto parts supplier. The company, Detroit Chassis, was based in Michigan but had recently set up an additional operation in Avon, Ohio, to supply parts for […]