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GM to Spend $1.4B on Arlington, Texas Plant Improvements
A day after the opening of talks with the UAW on a new four-year contract, GM announced today that it would spend $1.4 billion on the Arlington Assembly Plant that produces full-size SUVs. Continue reading
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Screw US Workers! Trade Policy Fails Again
Imports of auto parts, engines, vehicles through May 2015 increased to $112,315,000, a dismal job-destroying record. May at $29,462,000 was a record as well. Continue reading
UAW Denounces US House Passage of Fast Track
No trade agreement adopted under “Fast Track” has ever been defeated. It is the UAW’s contention – supported by much data gathered after the jobs destroying NAFTA, agreement, that the American auto industry, which leads the country in manufactured exports today, will be hurt. Continue reading
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Tagged autoinformed, autoinformed.com, Ken Zino, nafta, tpp
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UK Steel Workers to Shut down Tata
First national steel strike in UK for 35 years starts on 22 June as 17,000 Tata Steel workers protest proposed pension cuts from the Indian conglomerate that owns Jaguar Land Rover. Continue reading
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New Labor Commission on Racial and Economic Justice
The Council said it recognizes that employers, politicians and the 1% have always used race as a means of division, adding that the voices of all working people must be heard on complex racial issues in order to advance the fight for workers’ rights. Continue reading
Oil Strike Escalates Nationwide in US. Biggest since 1980
The United Steelworkers (USW) oil strike over demands for improved safety provisions has escalated as it entered its second week. Workers at BP refineries in Ohio and Indiana have joined the oil strike that began on 1 February at nine other refineries. From California to Kentucky, this is the first nationwide strike in the industry for 35 years. Continue reading
Mercedes Benz Headquarters Fleeing New Jersey for Georgia
Mercedes-Benz USA said it would relocate its corporate headquarters to Atlanta, Georgia from Montvale, New Jersey, claiming it will “strengthen the company’s position for long-term, sustainable growth.” Continue reading
Globalization Comes at last to Unions. UAW Growing in South?
Taking a play from multinational corporations who have used globalization and misleadingly named ‘Free-trade’ agreements to evade taxes and drive down pay rates in the U.S., trade unions are now using their global clout to organize non-union auto plants in the Southern U.S. The latest example comes from Mississippi where the UAW has been campaigning for four years to establish a company-recognized trade union into the Nissan plant in Canton and its 4,000 workers. Nissan reported more than $1 billion in profits during the Japanese Q1. Continue reading
New VW SUV Goes to Chattanooga. UAW forms a Local. Further State Subsidies in Anti-Union South in Doubt?
In a compromise that involves the formation of a UAW local, Volkswagen Group has announced that its new midsize SUV will the built in Chattanooga starting at the end of 2016. The expansion was held up over the lack of a union and a works council structure that exists in every other VW plant in the world. State and local officials – including the Governor and Senior Senator – threatened to withhold subsidies if a union was formed for the expansion that doubles the workforce to 4,000. Continue reading
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Arena Football Players Join AFL-CIO
The Arena Football League Players Union, AFLPU, has joined the AFL-CIO following a unanimous vote by its Board of Player Representatives. The move comes as the league is about to add six teams in China to the fourteen teams that play indoors in the U.S. Continue reading
Did Tennessee Governor Haslam Violate Worker’s Rights?
Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam and other Republican state lawmakers are charged with trying to prevent Volkswagen workers from obtaining union representation by threatening to withhold state aid for the now stalled expansion of the Chattanooga plant where the Passat is assembled. Continue reading
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Clean Diesel Technologies to pay $1.9 million to ex CFO
OSHA’s investigation found that the company violated the whistleblower provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act when it wrongfully terminated the former CFO for warning the board of directors about ethical and financial concerns raised by a proposed merger. Continue reading
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