In the early 1900s, Ford Motor Company commanded strong loyalty from Detroit’s black workers. But the United Auto Workers broke Ford’s stranglehold through patient organizing, cementing an alliance that would bear fruit for decades.
Glacier v. Teamsters was not a crisis averted but another step in the right’s plan to stifle labor power.
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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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One union member stuck it to the CEOs: "Do you really work 300-400x times harder than we do? No, you don't."
Unions fear that the auto industry is using the transition toward EVs to advance a second shift away from well-paying jobs.
The Big Three car companies have authorized $5 billion in stock buybacks over the past year.
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Auto workers are fighting for a 40% pay increase — the same raise that Ford, Stellantis & GM CEOs have seen over the past 4 years.
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