Under pressure from the striking United Auto Workers, General Motors agreed last week to include EV battery plants in its master agreement with the union. It’s a huge victory for the UAW — and a crucial step in ensuring the transition to EVs benefit
GM’s promise to cover its EV battery factories under the national master agreement gives workers a share of the gains from going electric.
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Solidarity IS the strategy.
As we overcome division and bigotry, we will win economic dignity for all.
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— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 28, 2023
America is in the midst of the biggest surge in labor activity in a quarter-century. Auto workers, writers, actors, Starbucks workers, Amazon workers, UPS drivers, flight attendants – labor isn’t a ‘special interest’. It’s all of us.
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From Brazil and Mexico to South Africa and Malaysia, international labor solidarity is aiding the UAW’s fight to reverse the global race to the bottom.
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