UAW Detriot Offices United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America

Table Of Content

• Corporate greed, low unemployment, housing crisis: That’s the recipe for hot labor summer
• Southern California hotel workers ratify new contracts, ending strikes for some
• UAW to launch unionizing drive at 13 carmakers, including Tesla and Toyota
• Mother who went missing on bike ride died by homicide, autopsy shows
• Column: The UAW sends a lightning bolt into anti-union states with a huge victory at a VW plant

If the strike lasts eight weeks, he estimates a $9.1 billion hit to incomes nationwide. He also addressed the federal government's role in the strike, as well as his decision to not yet endorse President Joe Biden's reelection campaign. Sunday’s negotiations are with Ford and meetings are planned with General Motors, according to two sources with knowledge of the negotiations. Other industry observers said that dragging current owners of GM and Stellantis vehicles into the fray will backfire on the union. I feel like our CEO is getting all our money,” said Antione Turner, who walked off his job Friday at a GM customer care center in Belleville, Mich.

Corporate greed, low unemployment, housing crisis: That’s the recipe for hot labor summer

He invited anyone who supports the union — “all the way up to the president of the United States” — to join strikers on the picket lines. Stellantis said it made “a very competitive offer” Thursday that would pay all current full-time hourly employees between $80,000 and $96,000 within four years and seven months and allow “workforce stability” during that time. The United Auto Workers union expanded its strikes against major carmakers Friday, walking out of 38 parts-distribution centers operated by General Motors and Jeep and Ram owner Stellantis in 20 states. Carter, who has a disability from his service in Iraq, is eligible to retire in February. He said that his defined-benefit pension payout was worth $3,170 per month in 2000, and is worth the same amount today, 23 years later. He was 270th in seniority when he got to this facility 29 years ago; today, he’s 15th among only about 130 workers.

Southern California hotel workers ratify new contracts, ending strikes for some

Cheryl moved back with her kids to the family’s house in Wisconsin until the strike settled. Tonight’s contract expiration comes just days after the UAW filed four separate unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against Daimler Truck, citing violations of workers’ rights and federal labor laws amid ongoing contract negotiations. But the ultimate impact of the strike depends on things like how long the strike lasts, if companies lay off workers at other plants, how many workers walk off their jobs and how long the unions and companies take to negotiate a deal. From Hollywood writers to nurses, factory workers, and Starbucks baristas, thousands of workers have gone on strike in recent months to demand higher pay and improved benefits and working conditions. The Teamsters union recently used the threat of a strike by 340,000 members at UPS to secure most of their demands, including pay raises and new air conditioned vans.

UAW to launch unionizing drive at 13 carmakers, including Tesla and Toyota

We said the company shouldn’t be able to ship work overseas on a whim. And we won increased job security and increased the “build rates.” This guarantees a certain minimum number of vehicles will be built at each plant, so workers can know their work will be there tomorrow. We said the company doesn’t get to keep all the profits while the workers who build the product get crumbs. So we won profit-sharing for the first time in Daimler history, to get our share of that so-called “leftover money” from their “red hot” profits. For months, we said that record profits should mean a record contract. The California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt campus will remain closed through the weekend as protesters, including "unidentified non-students," continue to occupy two buildings, school officials said in an update.

Autoworkers’ strikes spread to 38 locations in 20 states, targeting Stellantis and GM

Indeed, the technique of fighting unionization by offering workers better pay and benefits is as old as, well, labor-management relations themselves. One is that the UAW has absorbed the lesson that the key to organizing new locations and recruiting new members is achieving victory in contract negotiations. That’s what brings union membership out of the abstract and makes its benefits concrete. Honda announced a pay raise of 11% for workers at its plants in Ohio, Indiana and Georgia, along with an accelerated schedule of bringing workers up to the top rate to three years from six. Jones has not been charged, but Pearson has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to embezzle union funds and use of a facility of interstate commerce to aid racketeering. The UAW has reached a historic tentative agreement with Daimler Truck ahead of the contract’s expiration at midnight on Friday, April 26, after mounting a massive campaign and strike threat against the multibillion-dollar manufacturer.

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Instead, he conducted contract talks with all three simultaneously and dialed up the heat over time by striking selected plants, starting with minor manufacturing facilities and moving up to crucial plants as talks dragged on. Before Stellantis and Ford settled, 45,000 autoworkers had walked out. The UAW’s deals with the automakers offer a few lessons about labor negotiations. One is that you should always be wary of taking as gospel management’s claims about the devastating effect on their survival of paying workers more. As some of the leading nonunion shops in the industry, they responded almost instantaneously.

“That’s because the unionized part of the industry, while still large, is not as big a piece of the national economy as it once was,” Gabriel Ehrlich, an economic forecaster at the University of Michigan, told CNN. Workers also believe they have more bargaining power due to a tight labor market and the strongest public support for unions in decades. Labor has become more aggressive because of decades of stagnant wages for lower and middle-income workers, while the richest Americans expanded their wealth to unprecedented levels. Corporate profits have soared since the pandemic, and workers want a greater piece of the profits. United Auto Workers could call for additional strikes this week, the union's president Shawn Fain said Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation."

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A solid majority of the union’s retirees stay actively involved in the life of their union, participating in retiree chapters and playing a vital role in the UAW’s community action program. The UAW currently has 1,750 contracts with some 1,050 employers in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. At GM, 18,000 workers were off the job; the latest plant to be shut down, over this weekend, was its Spring Hill, Tenn., factory, its largest plant in North America, where 3,900 workers make Cadillacs and GMC SUVs. The automakers painted the UAW’s contract offers as almost existential threats.

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None of that means that the raises announced by Toyota et al. are, or should be, the equivalent of everything a union can offer workers at an organized plant or company. The fire forced union business to an office in Southfield in nearby Oakland County and left the five-story building on Detroit's east side with boards in place of numerous windows seven months later. The event has drawn scrutiny from both federal and local investigators because of the timing in the midst of the corruption scandal and comments in federal court filings.

President Biden will appear on a picket line in Detroit today, something workers here appreciated. UAW’s Region 6, which serves the West Coast, will have a solidarity rally outside the Mopar facility today as well, featuring elected officials. A General Motors parts center, in nearby Rancho Cucamonga, also went on strike last Friday. Labor Notes has reported that GM may deploy salaried workers at the parts centers to keep dealers stocked.

The UAW was also able to reduce the time it takes a worker to reach the top wage rate. Under the proposed agreement, it would take a worker just ninety days. The workers who build Freightliner trucks, Western Star trucks, and Thomas Built Buses are facing declining real wages and job security against a backdrop of rising cost of living and massive profits and shareholder payouts by Daimler Truck. Over the past six years, Daimler’s profits have increased by 90% while workers’ buying power has fallen 13%.

The companies say they can’t afford to meet the union’s demands because they need to invest profits in a costly transition from gas-powered cars to electric vehicles. They have dismissed out of hand some of the demands, including 40 hours’ pay for a 32-hour work week. The UAW’s commitment to improve the lives of working men and women extends beyond our borders to encompass people around the globe.

The workers here take four-hour shifts four days a week, and get $500 a week in strike pay. Most of the ones I spoke with have been working here for 25 years or more. “We’re doing this for the next generation,” said Cheryl Sprinkle, a front-office worker with 29 years at the facility, who has enough seniority to retire in October. Her husband, who was also at the picket lines, retired in 2009 from the plant, and was involved in the last strike here, an independent walkout in 1991 that lasted three months and cost the couple a house they had just moved into.

In a direct address to membership, UAW President Shawn Fain outlined the top lines of the deals, and reflected on the historic nature of the fight for justice at Daimler Truck. "The protesters' actions increasingly come at the expense of their fellow students' rights and a meeting cannot be a reward for such behavior." Tufts said in a statement that Student Life staff will be reaching out to the protesters Monday morning to plan the dismantling of the encampment over the next few days, stating its presence has already delayed preparations for commencement and that it must be removed for those activities to begin. "There is no truth to claims of an impending lockdown or evictions on campus," Columbia University said in a memo to students Saturday evening.

And while estimates of the economic impact of the strike don’t point at “wrecking the economy,” the damage could be significant. With the United Auto Workers’ historic strike officially underway, experts say the US economy is already getting bruised – but the strike’s impact isn’t likely to push the nation into a recession. The union said they had “reasonably productive conversations with Ford” on Saturday.

Trucks come to this Mopar site to engage in “cross-docking,” where they exchange parts that then go out to dealerships. Unionized Teamster drivers have refused to cross the picket lines; some have even joined UAW workers as they strike. So the trucking companies have been hiring non-union replacements to try to get parts moving. “We call them scabs,” said Mike Lacey, the strike captain on this past Sunday morning. Striking UAW workers picket outside the Mopar Los Angeles Parts Distribution Center, in Ontario, California, this past Sunday. Union members have been denying entrance to non-union truckers hired to move auto parts from the facility to dealers.