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Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares is under pressure. Tavares is being criticized for cutting too deep as he reshapes the global automaker. Investors, dealers, and union workers have all raised issues [...]

The White House said that Stellantis needs to make good on commitments it made to the United Auto Workers union last year tot communities impacted by plant closures in the [...]

Last Friday’s Wall Street Journal ran a (https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/salary-workers-pay-cuts-2024-54101d66) front-page story documenting that American companies are now hiring workers for tens of thousands of dollars less than they were offering for [...]

(https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1703079656527-0a0b10ae5daf?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwxfHxtYXJ0aW4lMjBsdXRoZXIlMjBraW5nfGVufDB8fHx8MTcyNDc2ODUyNHww&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=80&w=1080) Photo by (https://www.wonkette.com/true) Juan Domenech on (https://unsplash.com) Unsplash On August 28, 1963, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place in Washington DC. This famous event is [...]

Byline: Dani Cole The United Auto Workers union (UAW) has said that some local units representing Stellantis workers in the US are preparing to file grievances, which could trigger a [...]

Byline: Danielle Cohen The DNC is in full swing in Chicago, and the merch is absolutely popping off. On Monday night, amid (https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/chair-of-the-democratic-national-committee-jamie-harrison-news-photo/2167284512?adppopup=true) 'BALLS TO THE WALZ' tees and Ella [...]

(https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F07f7e211-378e-4a5a-9ab9-90b5d6c14d04_640x853.jpeg) Shawn Fain. Photo by 42-BRT. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 “Based on headlines this morning, posts on social media, and now this, 50% of people listening were just there [...]

Uber and Lyft threatened to leave Minnesota several times, until Gov. Tim Walz stepped in. Walz ultimately kept Uber and Lyft around while raising driver pay. Here's how it went [...]

A great deal of attention has been paid to the labor movement’s recent breakthrough organizing victories in the historically anti-union South, and rightly so. The triumphs of the United Auto [...]

Byline: Graeme Roberts General Motors on Tuesday announced a new US$6bn share buyback plan, more than a month after posting upbeat first quarter results and raising its annual forecast, citing [...]

The United Auto Workers', UAW, bid to organize more nonunion auto factories faces another test on Friday, as voting concludes at a Mercedes-Benz plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Mike Colias of [...]

Last July car parts as heavy as a small horse fell on Renee Barry. Three surgeries later she has metal rods, bolts and screws up her arms and cannot lift [...]

Before last week, “the phrase ‘union victory at Chattanooga’” would have sounded like a Civil War reference, said Michael Hiltzik in the Los Angeles Times. Not anymore, after workers at [...]

Byline: Graeme Roberts The US National Labor Relations Board has certified the results of the election in which Volkswagen Chattanooga employees voted for representation by the United Auto Workers. In [...]

Byline: Graeme Roberts The United Auto Workers reached a tentative agreement with Daimler Truck Holding ahead of a contract expiring at midnight on 26 April. The agreement includes pay increases [...]

Over the past 50 years, you can count on the fingers of one hand the number of weeks that have actually been great for American workers. It was just under [...]

History--good history, if conditional history--was made last Friday in Chattanooga, as workers at Volkswagen's factory there voted to join the United Auto Workers by an overwhelming margin of 2,628 to [...]

The United Auto Workers union won a critical vote at a plant in Tenessee. After a massive strike last year, the union set out to organize more factories that aren't [...]

CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE -- Ten years ago, Angelo Hernandez's father was involved in the union drive at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga. That effort narrowly failed, but a decade later, the [...]

Employees at a Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Alabama intend to vote on May 13-17 on whether to join the United Auto Workers union, Reuters' Shivansh Tiwary and Nathan Gomes report, [...]

The United Auto Workers union said it is 'extremely disappointed' with Volvo's decision to establish a new truck factory in Mexico, which the car maker said would help supplement its [...]

Employees at a Mercedes-Benz Group factory in Alabama are seeking a vote to unionize, bolstering a campaign by the United Auto Workers to broaden its ranks, Bloomberg's Josh Fidelson reports, [...]

Mercedes-Benz workers in Vance, Alabama, will vote on whether to join the United Auto Workers (UAW). On Friday, the UAW filed for an election to represent all 5,200 of the [...]

— KATIE KILKENNY On March 15 and 16, many workers at the Universal City AMC voted to unionize with IATSE, making the SoCal theater the second chain location that has [...]

Workers at Volkswagen's Chattanooga assembly facility intend to vote April 17 through April 19 over whether to join the United Auto Workers union, Reuters' David Shepardson reports. The union said [...]

On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (https://heatmap.news/electric-vehicles/epa-auto-emissions-rule) finalized new tailpipe emissions rules for U.S. cars, the biggest Biden administration climate rule that had not yet been completed. While the [...]

Byline: Graeme Roberts The United Auto Workers was petitioning for a unionisation vote at Volkswagen's Chattanooga, Tennessee plant, Bloomberg reported. A 'supermajority' of the 4,000 eligible staff at the factory [...]

Shawn Fain is the fiery auto worker driven to become a United Auto Workers leader. He was elected as the group’s president by a small margin in March 2023—the first [...]

ILLUSTRATION BY BRYCE WYMER EVEN IN A YEAR MARKED BY LABOR activism, the United Auto Workers' 46-day strike of Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis was historic. After years of declining [...]