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Another group of GM employees, UAW Local 659, said Tuesday that production workers at the Flint engine operations plant also voted against the deal by a 52% to 48% margin. Other parts of the ...
The United Auto Workers (UAW), fully named International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, is an American labor union that represents workers in the United States (including Puerto Rico) and southern Ontario, Canada.
The union said several UAW local chapters covering thousands of members have also filed contract grievances over what they allege is the company’s attempt to move Dodge Durango production out of ...
The UAW recently separated from the much larger union, The American Federation of Labor (AFL). Organizing in Flint was a difficult and dangerous plan. GM controlled city politics in Flint and kept a close eye on outsiders. As Wyndham Mortimer, the first UAW officer put in charge of organizing the campaign in Flint, entered the town, he was ...
United Auto Workers (UAW) members and supporters on a picket line outside the Ford Motor Co. Chicago Assembly Plant in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023.
The 1945—1946 strike established a strategy, forged by then-UAW president Walter Reuther, to target efforts on a single company. Since the 1950s, UAW has faced declining union membership and a growing service sector, reducing the economic impact that a strike could have. [15] In 2019, UAW autoworkers went on strike against
Production workers at GM’s Lansing Delta plant — UAW Local 602 — voted against the deal, with 63% opposing it. However, 60% of skilled trade workers voted for the deal. Overall totals ...
In 1997 the plant was closed by an 84-day UAW strike, the longest strike against GM since 1972. [3] The plant closed in September 2009 and ownership was transferred to the RACER Trust, an organization marking surplus GM properties, as part of the General Motors bankruptcy settlement. [4] In late 2011, demolition of the plant began.