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 Ultimatum: Let us in or we’ll huff and we’ll puff and tear your house down…

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  December 29th at 07:30 AM  | 

First, came the Japanese—Datsun, Toyota and Honda. Then, came the Germans—Mercedes and BMW. Then others came as well. Each foreign competitor having taken more and more of the UAW’s slice of the pie. Somewhere along the way, it finally dawned on the UAW’s leaders that foreign imports were cleaning their clock—and, worst of all, setting up their own UAW-free shops right in the union’s own | Read More »

UAW’s King Announces 2011 Goals: Target Foreign-Owned Auto Plants

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  December 23rd at 09:45 AM  | 

[See footnote below with regard to the GM/Toyota NUMMI plant in Fremont, California.] Because they’ve done so well with General Motors, Chrysler and Ford, the union known as United Auto Workers (or Union of Ailing Workplaces) wants to help spread some union love to its competitors working in foreign-owned U.S. factories. According to reports, the UAW’s President Bob King has determined that the UAW will | Read More »