UPDATE: The UAW’s Heavy-Handedness: Union Threatens Ford With Strike, Walks Back Replacement Talk

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | October 13th at 11:00 AM |

[Update below the fold.] Ford Motor Company has a dilemma on its hands. It is the only auto company of Detroit’s Big Three that is not government owned and, therefore, does not have the same safeguards against a United Auto Workers strike. In 2009, the UAW, in exchange for being bailed out at GM and Chrysler agreed not to strike until 2015. However, at Ford, the | Read More »

Tags: Ford, Ford Motor Company, UAW, United Auto Workers

The UAW’s Mid-East Model? UAW’s King Recruits Global Activists to Assault Foreign Automakers

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | March 24th at 05:00 PM |

Desperate times call for desperate measures, and the United Auto Workers’ Bob King thinks he’s just the union boss to make a go of it. With negotiations about to start with the Big Three American auto companies (two of which are UAW-owned), King is ramping up his rhetoric against the CEO of the only automaker that taxpayers did not bail out (Ford’s Mulally), while plotting | Read More »

Tags: Big Three, Bob King, boycott, Chrysler, Egypt, Facebook, Ford, Government Motors, regime change, Revolution, Social Media, UAW

LABOR SHORTS on All Hallows Eve

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | October 31st at 11:39 PM |

It is Saturday night and, as our schedule has been tight and will be for the foreseeable future, the news necessitates skipping the dubious trick and occasional sweet treat (not that we mind). So, with door bells ringing and children screaming, we offer you the most ghoulish labor news and views offered to you on this All Hallows Eve…We bring you Labor Shorts #5: Have | Read More »

Tags: Andy Stern, Boeing, CWA, Ford, IAM, Machinists, SEIU, Steelworkers, UAW, UFCW

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