Is Nissan intimidating the employees of its Canton, Miss. plant out of voting to unionize their workforce?
Take This Job And Shove It, For The Moment: Happy Labor Day From…
To properly honor the American worker, we'll be working half-speed the rest of today. Murilee's calloused and capable hands will bring you a full weekend of content, plus expect a feature or two on Monday. Be safe now!
GM, UAW And Treasury Department Reach Agreement
UAW and GM reach an agreement, making the score: GM 1, Looming Bankruptcy 349. [WXYZ]
UAW Approves Labor Deal With Ford, Still Stuck Watching Reruns of The…
Ford announced today that its approximately 54,000 UAW-reprsented employees in the US have accepted the four-year national labor agreement that was tentatively approved on November 3rd. Alan Mullaly said "This agreement is proof that by working together with our UAW partners, it is possible to find solutions that…
GM To Give Out Perfect Attendance Award, New Car
Proving that the medicine goes down better with a spoonful of sugar, GM announced today that a year of perfect attendance gets your average factory worker into a drawing for $15,000 towards the purchase of a new GM product. That's the sugar. The medicine is that starting January 1, those who are absent are going to…
Ford: Cut Labor Tab 30%
Translated into UAW-speak, that headline reads "Ford: Increasing Likelihood Of Strike 30% [Detroit News]
Eight Hours for Work, Eight Hours for Rest and a Ford GT in the…
37-year Janesville, WI truck-plant worker David Leeder just plopped down nearly 176k on a Ford GT, noting that it's three times what he paid for his house. The 57-year-old autoworker has obviously reaped the benefits of UAW membership. Interestingly enough, the Janesville plant is owned by General Motors. We somehow…
Peugeot: "Bimp? What Bimp?" Unions: "The One We're Gonna Give You on the…
Not loving the French is not an option. They're irrational. They invented the Traction Avant. They gave us a great big green statue. They may quite possibly, as an entire people, be insane. We have lived with a Frenchman and loved a Frenchwoman, and she's the one that slots perfectly in this story. When we were a teen …
Next Year's Model: '07 Rangers in Production Already
Ford's 2007 allotment of Rangers is already rolling off the lines at the St. Paul plant, which means one of two things: either the Blue Ovals are predicting banner sales for a compact pickup that became irrelevant sometime during the Clinton administration, or they wanna build the five trucks they'll need and then…
The Ain't No Picnic: What Today Might Mean to Labor and the Left
Slate's got an interesting bit up from UC Santa Barbara professor Nelson Lichtenstein about the roots of May Day and the changing face of activism since the 1930s. Down at the bodega this afternoon, the immigrants were on the job, watching white people on TV report on the masses of brown people clogging the streets of …
