The UAW's president wants to organize multiple non-unionized automakers, but the road to doing so is fraught with potholes.
"When we return to the bargaining table in 2028 it won't just be with the Big Three, but with the Big Five or Big Six," Fain said.In the last decade, the UAW tried and failed to organize the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee; the Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi; and the Tesla plant in Fremont, California.
At VW in Chattanooga, the union faced tremendous political pushback from the likes of then-U.S. Sen. Bob Corker . Rather than using his perch to endorse Democrats, Fain has withheld the union's endorsement of President Biden, even after Biden visited a UAW picket line in Michigan.who regularly quotes the Bible, talks about his daily devotions and emphasizes that the union is a family — qualities that could help him appeal to prospective members in the Bible Belt.
"We've had a tremendous amount of calls coming in from Toyota" workers wanting to unionize, Smith tells Axios. "The main thing that's going to help us is these record, historical contracts. Why wouldn't you want to organize?"after they just agreed to contracts that will widen the labor cost gap with their competition.
South Africa Latest News, South Africa Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
What the U.A.W. WonJohn Cassidy on the impending end of the United Auto Workers strike, and the significant gains the union made with automakers such as Ford and General Motors.
Read more »
For GM employees in Langhorne, proposed UAW contract could be ‘life-changing’The deal, if it's ratified, would even out disparities between pay tiers, bringing pay for parts distribution center workers in Langhorne closer to that of GM manufacturing workers.
Read more »
UAW, After 2023 Talks, Issues A Challenge For The FutureI have written or edited about the auto industry on and off (mostly on) since 1985, first at The Indianapolis Star then, for more than a dozen years, at Bloomberg News in Detroit, followed by almost nine years at SME Media.
Read more »
The UAW won even more than it might seemThe UAW strike was about getting more job security, not just a 25 percent pay raise.
Read more »
Toyota raises pay across the board in response to historic UAW dealsThe UAW's deals with Detroit's automakers have put pressure on non-union companies to raise pay to retain workers.
Read more »
Toyota raises pay across the board in response to historic UAW dealsThe UAW's deals with Detroit's automakers have put pressure on non-union companies to raise pay to retain workers.
Read more »