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...But employers probably see undermining the agency as a way to contain a labour movement that is celebrating major wins for employees such as auto workers and actors, he said....
...In the past year, high-profile strikes leading to new contracts — including those by the United Auto Workers and Hollywood screenwriters — have “set a tone for the country that organised labour was back,...
...Art Wheaton, the director of labour studies at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, added: “Everybody would agree that US Steel has been declining, declining, declining, and the workers would...
...Instead, Hohenshell sees a different motive: Toyota wants to halt the march of the United Auto Workers. “It’s a bribe,” he said....
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...In a community hall in northern Illinois last month, two presidents addressed a crowd of workers. One was Joe Biden, leader of the US. The other was Shawn Fain, head of the United Auto Workers....
...The United Auto Workers has unveiled plans to try to unionise tens of thousands of employees at 13 carmakers with non-union plants in the US, aiming to seize momentum after it won significant concessions...
...General Motors said the US carworkers’ strike was costing it approximately $200mn a week, an estimate that is set to rise after 5,000 members of the United Auto Workers union walked out of one of its largest...
...The United Auto Workers will expand its strike against Ford and General Motors, while sparing Stellantis from further action, citing progress with the company at the bargaining table....
...Volkswagen has become the latest foreign carmaker to raise wages for US workers following significant pay gains won by the United Auto Workers in a six-week strike against Ford, General Motors and Stellantis...
...The United Auto Workers’ 57,000 members at Ford wrested a hefty pay rise from the US carmaker this week following a strike that squeezed its production and profitability....
...Biden walked a picket line in support of the United Auto Workers — something no other president in history has done — and told them: “Folks, stick with it, because you deserve the significant raise you need...
...However, the jobs numbers were boosted by a deal struck between big US car manufacturers and the United Auto Workers union following a six-week strike, which almost entirely offset the 32,000-strong fall...
...The auto industry is one of the more heavily unionised parts of the US economy — and United Auto Workers are striking in part to ensure that remains the case, even as the transition to electric vehicles...
...Two months into bargaining and the United Auto Workers and manufacturers remain far apart on how much the 150,000 autoworkers at Ford, General Motors and Stellantis should be paid....
...Goldman Sachs says the United Auto Workers strike is just one — and possibly the smallest — of three nasty “potholes” that US economic growth faces next quarter....
...The United Auto Workers on Saturday said it had reached a tentative labour agreement with Fiat Chrysler parent Stellantis, which would raise wages and end a six-week strike....
...The workers, who voted 5-3 in favour of organising, will be part of Wells Fargo Workers United, a union formed in 2021 that is associated with the Communications Workers of America....
...“We are insisting that every EV and EV-related job is a good union job, with the same rights and employment terms as auto workers enjoy today,” Payne said....
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...Members of the United Auto Workers began picketing at midnight at three locations — a General Motors plant in Missouri, a Stellantis plant in Ohio and a Ford plant in Michigan — at the start of a strike...
...Wearing a United Auto Workers baseball cap, President Joe Biden told striking autoworkers on Tuesday that “unions built the middle class”, as he became the first sitting president to join a picket line....
...General Motors has agreed to include battery manufacturing plants in its overarching contract with the United Auto Workers, the union said, meeting a crucial demand for employees anxious over the industry...
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