Let’s Make a Deal: GM, UAW Reach Tentative Agreement in 11th Hour
General Motors and the United Auto Workers union reached a deal Sunday night, minutes before the union’s midnight deadline, averting any strike for now, according to the automaker. The deal will be...
View ArticleGeneral Motors-United Auto Workers Deal Includes Billions for Plants, Bonuses...
A proposed contract between the United Auto Workers and General Motors will eventually end a tiered pay system divided between veteran auto workers and employees hired after 2008, and provide annual...
View ArticleJanesville General Motors Plant Won’t Reopen Under Proposed Contract
The Janesville, Wisconsin, General Motors assembly plant that was shuttered six years ago will likely officially close, according to letters in a proposed agreement between United Auto Workers and the...
View ArticleUAW-GM Agreement Appears Heading Toward Ratification
United Auto Workers at General Motors’ Fort Wayne, Indiana facility overwhelmingly agreed to a proposed contract with the automaker that would raise wages and eventually close the gap between veteran...
View ArticleUAW-GM Contract Closer To Approval On Final Day Of Voting
With hours remaining until voting ends on the tentative contract between General Motors and the UAW, support for the contract continues to grow. According to The Detroit News, over 80 percent of GM’s...
View ArticleFord and United Auto Workers Reach Tentative Agreement
Ford and the United Auto Workers union announced Friday they’d reached a tentative agreement which, if ratified, will become the rules of work for Ford’s 52,000 unionized employees for the next four...
View ArticleMajority of GM Employees Approve Contract, Still Does Not Pass
The United Auto Workers union announced late Friday that, while the majority of its 52,000 membership voted “Yes” to the tentative agreement, skilled trades workers voted 59.5 percent against the deal....
View ArticleFord Deal With UAW Includes $10,000 Signing Bonus, More Plant Improvements
Rank-and-file Ford workers may get their first glimpses Monday at a newly proposed contract between the automaker and the United Auto Workers union, the Detroit News reported. According to the report,...
View ArticleFord-UAW Deal: Ford Ranger and Bronco In, Taurus Out
Ford fanboys (this one included) will finally get the Wrangler-fighting sport utility they’ve been yearning for since the demise of the Blue Oval’s two-door SUV in the mid ’90s. According to the...
View ArticleUAW’s Contract Includes Protections For Gender Identity, Expression for...
The United Auto Workers in its latest proposed contract with Ford will protect workers from discrimination based on those workers’ gender identities or expressions, a potentially sweeping measure for a...
View ArticleGeneral Motors to Import Chinese-Made Buick to U.S. By Late 2016
General Motors announced Thursday it will import a Buick crossover from China to the United States by the end of 2016, much to the UAW’s disappointment. According to the Detroit Free Press, the...
View ArticleWhat’s Going On With The UAW Deal With GM?
On Thursday, United Auto Workers Vice President Cindy Estrada told local union officials that she would recommend to union President Dennis Williams that the labor group ratify its contract with...
View ArticleFord Deal With UAW Gets First Big Boost
United Auto Workers in Wayne, Michigan initially approved their four-year contract with Ford last week, signaling the first major victory for the the tentative deal, Automotive News reported. Bill...
View ArticleBig Three Go Long On SUV, Truck Production in North America
Detroit automakers may be betting high-profit SUVs and trucks are a better fit for their domestic plants as those automakers shift production away from cars to make room for larger, high-margin...
View ArticleFord Workers in Kansas City Turn Down Proposed UAW Deal
Ford workers in Kansas City voted down a proposed contract between the automaker and the United Auto Workers, the local union reported on its Facebook page (via Automotive News). Kansas City produces...
View ArticleUAW Contract With Ford On The Ropes
My, that went downhill quickly. United Auto Workers at a large Ford facility in Chicago voted 2-to-1 against a proposed contract with the automaker, according to the local union’s Facebook page (via...
View ArticleFord UAW Workers Narrowly Approve Contract, UAW Executive Board Ratifies GM Deal
A week before Thanksgiving, the United Auto Workers and all of the domestic automakers know they will enter the holiday season without having to worry about a strike. According to the Detroit News, the...
View ArticleFord Softens Labor Impact Under New Agreement
Ford will pay only 1.5-percent more in labor costs each year under a new contract with the United Auto Workers, the automaker reported Monday. Ford announced it would take a $600 million charge this...
View ArticleFord Spends $1.3B on Super Duty Plant in Kentucky So You Don’t Have To Wait...
Ford announced Tuesday that it would spend $1.3 billion to retool, update and build a new body shop for its Louisville, Kentucky plant, which produces its Super Duty truck and large SUVs. The announced...
View ArticleUnited Auto Workers Wins First Vote At Volkswagen’s Chattanooga Plant
Skilled trades workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga Assembly Plant in Tennessee voted Friday overwhelmingly to join the United Auto Workers union, the first UAW victory at an automotive plant in the...
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