On Labor Day, a Major Strike Looms
A 46% pay raise. A 32-hour workweek with 40 hours of pay. A restoration of traditional pensions. The demands that a more combative United Auto Workers union has pressed on General Motors, Stellantis,...
View ArticleHow a Potential Autoworker Strike May Affect Car Prices
The nation is on the brink of another massive strike, with about 150,000 US autoworkers threatening to walk off the job when their current contract expires at 11:59pm Thursday. By all accounts, the...
View ArticleUAW Contract Deadline Nears: 'Nobody's Coming to Save Us'
The head of the United Auto Workers union said Wednesday that a strike against Detroit's Big Three automakers is imminent, with negotiations ahead of Thursday's 11:59pm contract deadline not making the...
View ArticleDeadline Passes With No Deal, and UAW Strike Begins
About 13,000 US auto workers stopped making vehicles and went on strike Friday after their leaders couldn't bridge a giant gap between union demands in contract talks and what Detroit's three...
View ArticleWarning to UAW: Don't Kill 'the Goose That Lays the Golden Egg'
The United Auto Workers union is threatening to expand its targeted strike against Detroit's Big Three automakers if major advances aren't seen in contract negotiations by Friday. But at least one...
View ArticleBiden Makes Big Announcement on UAW Strike
The United Auto Workers strike expanded on Friday , with union workers walking out of dozens of additional parts-distribution centers across the nation amid sluggish negotiations with Ford, General...
View ArticleUnited Auto Workers Strike Just Got Bigger
The United Auto Workers union says its two-week strike against Detroit automakers will spread to 7,000 more workers at a Ford plant in Chicago and a General Motors assembly factory near Lansing,...
View ArticleUAW, Ford Have a 'Historic' Tentative Agreement
After 41 days on strike, United Auto Workers has reached a tentative—and, the union says, "historic"—agreement with Ford. The deal, according to a UAW news release cited by the Detroit News , includes...
View ArticleStrike a 'Victory for Autoworkers,' Not Necessarily for Consumers
General Motors, the final holdout in the United Auto Workers strike, finally caved this week, reaching a tentative agreement with workers that would bring to an end six weeks of strikes that targeted...
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