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Byline: Michael Sainato United Auto Workers (UAW) members in the battleground states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada support the presidential candidate Kamala Harris over Donald [...]

Byline: Michael Sainato One of America's biggest carmakers, Stellantis, could face fresh strikes after the United Auto Workers (UAW) announced plans for members to vote on authorizing a walkout. The [...]

Byline: Michael Sainato The United Auto Workers (UAW), one of biggest trade unions in the US, has been accused of firing an organizer in retaliation for their role in an [...]

Byline: Michael Sainato The United Auto Workers president, Shawn Fain, called Donald Trump a 'scab' on Tuesday as the union filed federal unfair labor practice charges against the former president [...]

Byline: Alice Herman At a union hall in the Detroit area on Thursday, Kamala Harris and her running mate, the Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, addressed members of the United Auto [...]

Byline: Michael Sainato Seven major US labor unions representing about 6 million workers sent a letter to Joe Biden on Tuesday calling on his administration to 'immediately halt all military [...]

I congratulate the United Auto Workers and Ultium Cells for reaching a historic agreement in Lordstown, Ohio, where UAW workers are manufacturing batteries for General Motors electric cars and trucks. [...]

Byline: Guardian staff and agency The United Auto Workers (UAW) union is seeking a new election at a Mercedes-Benz vehicle plant in Alabama after losing a vote there last week, [...]

Byline: Dani Anguiano in Los Angeles Academic workers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, took to the picket line on Monday morning as part of a rolling strike in [...]

Byline: Michael Sainato California's huge university system is facing widespread disruption after workers voted to hold a series of strikes in protest of its treatment of Gaza protesters. The University [...]

Byline: Michael Sainato The United Auto Workers (UAW) union is setting its sights on its next big union victory in the south, at two Mercedes-Benz plants in Vance and Woodstock, [...]

Byline: Lizzy McLellan Ravitch May 3After more than two decades, graduate student workers at the University of Pennsylvania have voted to form a union. The vote was 95% in favor [...]

Byline: Jeanne Whalen, Toluse Olorunnipa Fresh off some historic wins for the labor movement, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain could be the man who makes the biggest difference for [...]

Byline: Steven Greenhouse After celebrating his union's historic victory at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee, Shawn Fain, president of the United Auto Workers, told the Guardian that he is confident [...]

Byline: DAVID KOENIG; ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS -- The United Auto Workers' overwhelming election victory at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee is giving the union hope that it can make broader [...]

Byline: Michael Sainato Volkswagen workers at the carmaker's Chattanooga plant in Tennessee have voted to unionize with the United Auto Workers, a historic victory for the union and the labor [...]

Byline: Jamie Kitman From Amazon and UPS to Starbucks and Hollywood studios, organized labor is making a comeback in the US after decades of decline. Shawn Fain thinks he knows [...]

Byline: Steven Greenhouse The United Auto Workers (UAW) has launched an ambitious campaign to unionize 13 non-union automakers across the US, and the first big test begins this Wednesday when [...]

Byline: Michael Sainato Mercedes-Benz workers in Vance, Alabama, have voted to hold an election to join the United Auto Workers (UAW), the second car plant in a southern state to [...]

Byline: Jeanne Whalen Workers at a Mercedes factory in Alabama are taking a big step toward possible unionization by asking federal authorities to organize a factory-wide vote on joining the [...]

Byline: Maxine Joselow The Biden administration finalized the United StatesÇÖ toughest limits on planet-warming emissions from passenger cars and light trucks Wednesday, in a controversial bid to accelerate the nationÇÖs [...]

THE FIRST WEEKEND OF NOVEMBER, 2023, TEAMSTERS FOR A Democratic Union (TDU) held its annual convention at a hotel near O'Hare Airport outside of Chicago. It was the 48* convention [...]

Congratulations to the workers at Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on their historic vote for union representation with the United Auto Workers. I was proud to stand alongside auto workers in [...]

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee joined five other governors in issuing the following joint statement opposing United Auto Workers (UAW)s unionization campaign: We the Governors of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, [...]

ELECTRIC VEHICLE MANUFACTURING IS ON THE RISE IN THE United States, thanks in no small part to investments encouraged by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). This expansion of investment in [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler âChina is determined to dominate that market, with EV [electric vehicles] predominantly made in China and Chinese jobs. The previous administration was content to sit on the [...]

Byline: Jem Bartholomew Good morning. The United Auto Workers (UAW) formally endorsed Joe Biden 's re-election campaign on Wednesday at the union's national community action program conference in Washington DC. [...]

Byline: Michael Sainato Fresh off its victories over the US's three biggest domestic automakers, the United Auto Workers (UAW) is going all out to unionize Volkswagen's flagship plant in Chattanooga, [...]

The shift reflects a broader generational change, and has exposed philosophical rifts in the labor movement about what the purpose of a union ought to be. ''Why are we here?'' [...]