Deutschland Meets Detroit: UAW partners with German union to launch all-out invasion of Mercedes & VW plants in U.S.

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 16th at 11:00 PM  | 

Not withstanding the UAW’s contribution to the decline of Detroit’s Big Three, it’s been more than two years since the UAW’s Bob King announced his union’s intent to “shame” foreign auto makers into unionizing their American workers through “blackmail.”

Moreover, it’s been nearly two years since the UAW’s King began talks with the German union IG Metal and VW’s works council.

With some set backs, to date, progress at unionizing foreign automakers’ U.S. operations has been slow going for Detroit’s most progressive union boss–to say the least.

Now, even as the UAW fights with its own employees, things have begun to heat up in the South.

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Union Briefs for March 28, 2013: SSDD–Teamsters Strike, UAW Hypocrites & Teachers Union Boss Lies

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  March 28th at 08:00 PM  | 

UAW United Against Its Workers?

“In an unusual case where the United Auto Workers union is bargaining as an employer, about 74 workers at the UAW-General Motors Center for Human Resources rejected the union’s latest contract proposal….

The employees have been working under the terms of their previous deal, which expired March 31, 2012, after rejecting the latest proposal Tuesday by a vote of 58 to 4.”

It’s Thursday, and these are your Union Briefs…

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Union Briefs for Thurs., March 21, 2013: Teamsters’ time bomb to cost taxpayers billions

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  March 21st at 06:30 AM  | 

The underfunding problem of union multi-employer pension plans continues. With as much as $369 billion in the hole, union pensions have become a ticking time bomb for both employers as well as present and future retirees.

Ultimately, the American taxpayers may be asked, as they were in 2008, to bailout unions’ underfunded pension plans.

It’s Thursday, March 21, and these are your Union Briefs…

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Union Briefs for Monday, March 18, 2013: VW & UAW conspiring to unionize Chattanooga plant?

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  March 18th at 09:30 AM  | 

In these United States, for the most part and despite union attempts to to the contrary*, workers still have the right to choose whether or not to be unionized.

However, in 2010, when Obama’s NLRB legitimized sweetheart unions and gave unions the ability to engage in behind-the-scenes negotiations with employers–even when they do not represent said employers’ employees–the NLRB set the stage to give unscrupulous unions access to unionize workers through the back-door..

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Union Briefs for Thurs., March 7, 2013: NLRB Smackdowns, Alinsky & Mud Slinging…

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  March 7th at 06:30 AM  | 

“The [NLRB]’s decisions have enraged many small-business owners, and some of them are defying board rulings. It appears this discussion is only getting started, and we can expect (I hope) to see more employers standing up for their rights.”

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Dog Bites Man. Man Bites Back: The UAW’s King made Michigan’s Right-To-Work bed.

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  December 13th at 10:00 PM  | 

As union bosses–like Teamsters’ boss Jimmy P. Hoffa–begin to see their financial coffers dwindle next year, they shouldn’t blame Republicans for Michigan’s “civil war.”

It was the UAW’s Bob King who fired the first shot.

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Unions Get Ugly As Michigan Now Set To Become 24th Right-to-Work State In Nation

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  December 6th at 10:15 PM  | 

By all appearances, however, Obama’s weighing into Michigan’s Right-to-Work brief battle will likely be too little too late as Michigan Republicans seem to have borrowed from Obama’s own take-no-prisoners playbook and passed the bill quickly.

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Will the UAW’s King talk about Obama’s discrimination of Delphi retirees & another GM bankruptcy at #DNC2012?

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 5th at 04:30 PM  | 

A word of advice: If you happen to be watching the DNC convention tonight, don’t hold your breath in anticipation of honesty during the United Auto Workers’ top union boss Bob King’s speech. You’ll waste your time if you’re expecting an honest discussion about how the Obama Administration was ‘fair’ to the workers during Barack Obama’s taxpayer-funded bailout of General Motors and Chrysler. The UAW’s | Read More »

UAW’s King Exposes Fall Strategy at #DNC2012: Instill FEAR if GOP wins, HOPE if Dems win

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 4th at 01:45 PM  | 

“We have to have people have the right amount of fear in terms of if (Republicans) win what they will do,” King said. “But I also want us to go more with hope. We all supported President Obama in ’08 because we did have hope.”

Apparently, it’s hard to sell ‘change’ twice so, explaining his (and Democrats’) fear strategy, King told delegates that Republicans want to end the world…or something like that:

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Colt Firearm’s Florida Move Has UAW Job-Killers In Connecticut Worried

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  December 12th at 01:45 PM  | 

As Connecticut continues to shoot itself in its foot (so to speak), job creators are rightfully beginning to look elsewhere for locales that do not view businesses as cannon fodder. Colt Firearms appears to be one of the many Connecticut companies looking for a less hostile home. To clarify, Florida is a Right-to-Work state and Connecticut is not. Which may be why the UAW is so | Read More »

Unionized Clerical Workers Fight UAW Greed…

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  November 14th at 07:00 PM  | 

Their employer has nearly $1 billion in the bank, owns a golf resort, and is a major shareholder of not one but two U.S. auto companies. Given that, one would think their employer wouldn’t treat its employees like the very corporations their bosses often do battle with. However, since 2009, the union workers have been subjected to cut backs and are now facing even more layoffs. | Read More »

You Can’t Rely On American Cars Because American Car Makers Rely On Bailouts

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  October 26th at 01:30 PM  | 

The Consumer Reports Company just rated the reliability of 28 makes of automobile from around the world. No American car manufacturer scored better than 13th in ordinal ranking. Ranked on a Lickert Scale from 1 to 5, Jeep, the best American competitor, scores approximately 3.0. No American car does better than average at staying in one piece. This raises a fair question: did we really | Read More »

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 »

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 »