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We speak with UAW president Shawn Fain at the DNC about why the UAW has endorsed Harris-Walz, what is at stake in this election for working people and the labor movement, and which side of the class war Donald Trump is on.

Fain noted that a Detroit rally the UAW had held for Biden earlier this summer had drawn about 2,000 attendees, while a Detroit rally the union that thrown together on short notice for Harris earlier this month had drawn 15,000.

Harris taking steps to bolster the all-important union vote.

Canada's two main railway companies are on the verge of a simultaneous labor stoppage for the first time. The companies say they'll start locking out workers Thursday if they can't reach a deal; the union (Teamsters) says it's ready to call a strike.

A federal monitor intended to serve as a watchdog for corruption is improperly interfering in the UAW’s public opposition to Israel’s war on Gaza.

An all-out war has now developed between the Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, and one of the country’s most visible and increasingly militant unions, the UAW.

Could the union victory at an electric bus manufacturing plant in Alabama turn the South into a hub for quality jobs in the green economy?

A poultry worker and union steward in Minnesota shares her thoughts on the fight to protect immigrant workers: "Whether you are undocumented or not, we cannot suffer in silence. We cannot let people violate our rights."

Vice President Kamala Harris has won the endorsement of the National Black Caucus of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Tim Walz is seen as a champion for workers. But how have they actually done under his leadership? Pretty well.