Tag: United Auto Workers

September 1, 2023

“While we transition to EVs, we want to ensure that workers can transition in place, that there is no worker, no community left behind,” said Granholm, The United Auto Workers (UAW) union has warned that a rapid change could put […]

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, […]

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 […]

December 14, 2018

Employees at Tesla Inc.’s solar-panel factory in Buffalo, New York, are kicking off a union-organizing campaign, a fresh challenge to the automaker that has so far successfully resisted similar efforts by the United Auto Workers at its sole car plant […]

November 26, 2018

General Motors said Monday that it planned to idle three car plants and two transmission plants in North America and cut several thousand blue-collar and salaried jobs in a bid to trim costs as the auto sector slows. The plants […]