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...The UAW narrowly lost high profile elections at the Chattanooga facility in 2014 and 2019....
...On Wednesday the UAW launched a campaign to organise US plants operated by BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Lucid, Mazda, Mercedes, Nissan, Rivian, Subaru, Tesla, Toyota, Volkswagen and Volvo....
...The UAW on Wednesday launched a campaign to organise US plants operated by BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Lucid, Mazda, Mercedes, Nissan, Rivian, Subaru, Tesla, Toyota, Volkswagen and Volvo....
...He was always sending messages that, you know, this is about the UAW, but this is also about the whole working class....
...Workers had already received a raise after the UAW signed new contracts with the Detroit automakers in November. Observers called it the “UAW bump.”...
...Hours after announcing a deal with Stellantis, the UAW escalated its action against GM over the weekend, hitting its plant at Spring Hill, Tennessee. Read more on GM here...
...Labour experts said that success for UAW would be the most pivotal moment in US labour history since GM workers struck at a Flint, Michigan, plant in 1936, establishing the UAW and ultimately unionising...
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...The UAW has been on strike against Ford, General Motors and Stellantis for two weeks....
...There are currently three auto assembly plants picketing, involving 13,000 of the UAW’s 146,000 members at the Detroit carmakers....
...The tentative contract will not take effect unless the UAW’s members at Ford vote to ratify it....
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