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Membership in the United Auto Workers union has fallen 7 percent during the past year to more than 431,000 workers, a government report says.
Canada's federal government and the province of Ontario agreed Friday to provide $3.5 billion Canadian dollars ($2.8 billion) for the Canadian auto industry.
Hourly wages for United Auto Workers laborers at General Motors Corp. factories actually are almost equal to those paid by Toyota Motor Corp. at its older U.S. factories, according to the companies. GM says the average UAW laborer makes $29.78 per hour, while Toyota says it pays about $30 per hour.
The Canadian Auto Workers union and General Motors Corp. tentatively agreed to a new labor contract on Thursday and union President Buzz Hargrove said they are close to a deal with Chrysler LLC.
United Auto Workers union membership has fallen below 500,000 for the first time since World War II, reflecting the massive restructuring undertaken by Detroit's automakers.
The United Auto Workers union said early Saturday it reached a tentative four-year contract agreement with Ford Motor Co., avoiding even the threat of a strike against the struggling automaker.
The United Auto Workers saw a decline in membership and union dues last year amid restructuring and job cuts by domestic automakers.
Ed Schultz blasts Hugh Hewitt's boycott of GM because he calls it a Socialist company. What about the working families?excerpt: "" Schultz held no punches back when he went after Hugh Hewitt's idiotic call for a national boycott of all GM and Chrysler cars because he calls them "socialist companies."
Deficit surges at agency that insures pensionsThe agency is closely monitoring the auto, retail, financial services and health care industries, all in financial distress. The PBGC estimates that pension underfunding in the auto sector alone is $77 billion.
Defend pensions, jobs, and wages! No concessions! -- Auto workers need a socialist strategyThousands of auto workers—retired, laid-off, and working—will rally with working people from all sections of the economy at the Ontario Legislature today to protest the provincial Liberal government's reneging on a three decade-old guarantee to partially protect the pensio …
When will they call it a DEPRESSION?Factory after factory operating at 50% capacity is not a recession, it is a DEPRESSION....and a catastrophic one at that with the entire nations exports DOWN 50% for an export based economy......... In America, new home sales are down 75% from peak, auto sales down 50%, Pre Cl …
U.S. to give Chrysler, GM new aidWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration will make about $500 million available to Chrysler LLC through the end of this month as it seeks to reach an alliance with Fiat, and up to $5 billion through May to help General Motors Corp restructure outside of bankruptcy, an inde …
Why are UAW contracts less important than AIG contracts?Why is it that the hundreds of thousands of UAW members have to make concession after concession in order to get a small amount of relief, but the same banks that are using bailout money to fight against the Employee Free Choice Act or to pay ridiculous bonuses to undeserving emp …
A Race to the Bottom By BOB HERBERT Ms. Weingarten was raising a cry against the demonizing of teachers and the widespread, uninformed tendency to cast wholesale blame on teachers for the myriad problems with American public schools.
Bob Herbert: A Race to the Bottom The U.A.W. has been criticized because its retired workers have had generous pensions and health coverage.
GM Town 'On Edge Until Bush Gives Us the Money' - washingtonpost.comOne of the most frustrating aspects of the potential Lordstown closing is the fact that the efforts of the union and the company at the plant represent, in some ways, an answer to the industry's many critics.
To those senators who sank the GM and Chrysler bridge-loan: "Bleep you!"Thank you GOP, continue to stay OUT of Touch with the American people. Vote these idiots OUT>
Michelle Malkin's Blog Of Hate: No Bailout For Auto WorkersThe spiteful Michelle Malkin was apoplectic that a bailout deal was reached to save the American auto industry yesterday (although the deal is now floundering due to Republican opposition, and still has not been resolved).
Tom Friedman: " if I thought with $25 billion we could save this industry, I'd be for it, OK? ... These people who have driven this industry into a complete ditch have a plan to get it out"MR. TOM FRIEDMAN: I think he can. He may have to, Tom.
Obama proposes $210 billion for new jobs...Democrat Barack Obama said Wednesday that as president he would spend $210 billion to create jobs in construction and environmental industries, as he tried to win over economically struggling voters.
Chrysler strikers speak: "It's time workers unite on a global basis, the same way the companies do""The union has slowly been selling us out for years, reopening contracts in the middle of an agreement and giving the company everything it wants. "You can't keep blaming the blue collar worker. What about management? They can't run this place.
The UAW's Health-Care DreamsIt is not within the power of United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger to save GM, Ford and Chrysler. But it is certainly within his power to kill them. Whether he chooses to do so will soon become clear.
Big Three CEOs to Meet With Bush, Sources Say - Los Angeles TimesInteresting that the US auto company CEO's are being invited to the White House, but there is no one with the viewpoint of the workers being invited.
GM Buyouts No 'Christmas in March' - OhmyNews InternationalAbout the GM/Delphi buyout plan and the mainstream media coverage of the Delphi bankruptcy plan. And about the role of an independent press in the struggle to protect the rights of workers.
Delphi/General Motors and the Voice of the UAW auto workers- OhmyNews InternationalThe Delphi/GM bankruptcy threat and the UAW auto workers efforts to fight against the drastic cuts in wages and benefits this would represent.
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