Showing posts with label UAW. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UAW. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
UAW backs El-Sayed over other Democrats running for US Senate
“Together, we’re going to take on corporate greed, rebuild an economy that works for working people, strengthen collective bargaining, and ensure that the future of Michigan manufacturing is built right here by union workers,” El-Sayed said in a press release. “Solidarity forever.”…
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Shawn Fain, president of the UAW: ‘Workers realized they’ve been getting screwed for decades’
Fain objects strongly to those who would place the blame for rising car prices on union contracts. "Another myth. Five to 7% of the cost of a car is labor. [Carmakers] could give us everything they gave us in that contract and not raise the price of cars a penny and still make massive profits. Why are they not saying what $20 billion in [additional] corporate dividends and stock buybacks cost them? That affects the bottom line more. That money somehow just disappears and doesn't count, right? All they want to talk about is our wages and our benefits. People forget, over the last four years, the price of vehicles went up 35% on average. But our wages didn't go up. Our benefits didn't get better. Nothing changed for us. [Price hikes are] because of two things: corporate greed and consumer price gouging. They just pile all those costs on and then try to blame the workers for it."…
Monday, March 18, 2024
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Saturday, January 20, 2024
UAW invites Biden to annual conference, signaling likely endorsement - The Washington Post
The autoworker union's endorsement has outsize political implications because of its influence in Michigan, a key battleground state in the 2024 presidential race, which Biden narrowly won in 2020...
Thursday, September 28, 2023
Saturday, September 23, 2023
As UAW workers strike, a look at what has happened to autoworker pay - The Washington Post
We knew autoworkers used to do pretty well. But we didn't understand just how high their pay had been — and how far they'd fallen — until we ran the numbers...
Thursday, July 6, 2023
Biden brings in Sperling to calm looming Detroit showdown - POLITICO
The upcoming contract talks between the Big Three automakers and a newly energized United Auto Workers union threatens to pose a political threat to Biden's reelection campaign...
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