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 »

The UAW: The Curse that Just Keeps on Giving

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  October 17th at 03:45 PM  | 

The company formally known as General Motors (informally known as Government Motors) is preparing for an initial public stock offering (IPO). However, it appears the attractiveness of the “new” GM continues to be scarred by an old curse, the United Auto Workers. While many Americans have already sworn off the buying of GM-made vehicles, investing in General Motors, alongside the United Auto Workers may be | Read More »

UAW Becomes Giant Tick, Sucks U.S. Dry

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 7th at 12:16 AM  | 

Following our earlier post on the UAW suing Government General Motors, a friend sent us this story about the Government Accountability Office warning that U.S. taxpayers may have to cough up another $14.5 billion to bail out the UAW pensions of both Government General Motors and Chrysler. Automakers General Motors and Chrysler will need to put billions of dollars into their pension plans over the next five years | Read More »

More on the UAW at NUMMI: Police called on fed-up members (again)

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  March 8th at 12:23 PM  | 

After Government Motors (the auto company formerly known as) General Motors, abandoned its 50% partnership with Toyota at the NUMMI plant in California last year and Toyota’s subsequent decision to close the NUMMI plant, the Union of Ailing Workplaces United Auto Workers has gone into overdrive in an attempt to shift the blame for the plant closure from GM and its Obama-administration bailout structured bankruptcy | Read More »

Too-Big-to-Fail GM to UAW workers: Buy our cars…please? Oh. And sell them too!

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  March 5th at 03:23 PM  | 

Just how bad are sales these days  for Government Motors General Motors? Apparently, it’s so bad that GM can’t even get its own UAW employees to buy the cars they make and is asking for help to sell them. But wait, that’s not the punchline and this is no joke: GM is planning a campaign aimed at its own employees! General Motors is kicking off | Read More »