UAW Dues Hike Supported By Membership According to Union President
The United Auto Workers will, for the first time since 1967, ask their membership to pay a 25 percent increase in dues to the union in order to shore up their strike fund and fight for better...
View ArticleUAW Hopes For Swift Southern Unionization Victory ‘Overly Optimistic’
Outgoing United Auto Workers president Bob King admitted that his timetable for a swift unionization of one of the auto plants in the Southeastern United States was overly optimistic. Though the UAW...
View ArticleNYT: Chattanooga is a Lobbyist Battleground
On Tuesday, the New York Times published a look at the ongoing feud between pro- and anti-union forces at Volkswagen’s plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It paints a picture of a political battle fought...
View ArticleTennessee Lawmakers Threatening To Kill Subsidies If UAW Wins VW Plant
Should the United Auto Workers win the upcoming election to represent workers at Volkswagen’s Chatanooga, Tenn. plant, the automaker may find itself shunned by state lawmakers as far as further...
View ArticleUAW VW Road Map Guiding March To Mercedes-Benz
Following the same road map that led to the ongoing organization efforts at Volkswagen’s plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., the United Auto Workers have allied with German union IG Metall and Daimler’s...
View ArticleUAW, VW Works Council Regrouping Under Voting Fallout
Following the 712 – 629 decision against representation by the United Auto Workers at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., the union may be forced to throw in the towel on foreign-owned auto...
View ArticleVW Works Council May Block New Southern U.S. Expansion Without Unionization
Should Volkswagen’s workers in Chattanooga, Tenn. not be allowed to unionize — with or without the United Auto Workers — the automaker’s works council may veto any plan to expand VW’s presence in the...
View ArticleHaley, Norquist Vow To Block Organized Labor From The South
Days after the United Auto Workers found themselves outside the gate at the Volkswagen plant in Chatanooga, Tenn., South Carolina governor Nikki Haley and Republican lobbyist Grover Norquist have...
View ArticleVW Labor Leaders Fight To Establish U.S. Works Council
While the United Auto Workers take their battle to bring their brand of organization to Volkswagen’s plant in Chattanooga, Tenn. before the National Labor Relations Board, VW’s labor leaders are...
View ArticleCorker: Labor Board Should Not Silence Lawmakers
Former Chattanooga, Tenn. mayor and current United States Senator Bob Corker urged the National Labor Relations Board not to silence him or fellow lawmakers opposed to unionization as the NLRB...
View ArticleIG Metall Warns Against Yellow Union For Chattanooga VW Plant
While Volkswagen works to find a way to establish a works council at their Chattanooga, Tenn. plant in the wake of the failed United Auto Workers election and subsequent appeal to the National Labor...
View ArticleUAW Subpoenas Haslam, Corker To Appear At VW NLRB Appeal Hearing
Tennessee governor Bill Haslam and U.S. Sen. Bob Corker are just two of the 20 prominent Tennessee witnesses subpoenaed by the United Auto Workers to appear at the union’s hearing before the National...
View ArticleVolkswagen Leaves Door Open For “Co-Determination” In Chattanooga
Though the United Auto Workers recently backed down from challenging the results of the February 2014 organization election held at Volkwagen’s Chattanooga, Tenn. plant before the National Labor...
View ArticleDaimler: Unionization Is For The Employees To Decide
Despite allegations to the contrary, Daimler AG chair Dieter “Dr. Z” Zetsche says his company remains neutral on the subject of unionization in regards to the Mercedes factory in Vance, Ala. According...
View ArticleJalopnik, Other Gawker Media Writers To Unionize
It’s official: Writers for Gawker Media’s online publications, including our friends at Jalopnik, have voted to unionize. Out of 118 eligible voters throughout the online-only media company, 107 cast...
View ArticleA Unionized Tesla? UAW Considering a Push for Musk’s Workers
The folks at United Auto Workers are eyeing Tesla’s production targets and making plans. The electric automaker wants to manufacture 500,000 vehicles per year in 2018, and the union wants the workers...
View ArticleForeign Automakers, the South, Remain Off-limits to UAW as Nissan Workers...
The United Auto Workers spared no effort in its attempts to organize foreign automakers operating in the United States, but the workforce — and the South, for the most part — remains off limits to the...
View ArticleUAW Accuses Nissan of Tracking Workers’ Union Sentiments
The United Auto Workers has accused Nissan Motor Company of tracking and rating employees based on their union sentiments at the same Mississippi assembly plant where workers recently voted down union...
View ArticleHow Will the UAW’s War With Nissan End?
The South has been a longstanding hurdle for the United Auto Workers. Having been unsuccessful in its efforts to organize foreign-owned automakers outside its Midwestern stronghold for years, the UAW...
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