On the 31st day of the longest auto strike in 50 years, General Motors and the United Auto Workers announced a tentative agreement.
On picket lines around the country, from Wyoming, Michigan to Rochester, N.Y. to Langhorne, Pennsylvania ---G.M. workers made the strike their own.
Their fight is one that all of us, regardless of the work we do, should claim as our own.
CEOs are promising to take better care of workers with stronger benefits and higher pay. But as a union leader, I know firsthand that workers can't take these promises for granted.
Only a strong movement can put the management of capitalism on the political agenda.
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With top leaders discredited but refusing to step away, GM strikers have just one tool to use between their rock and their hard place: their right to vote no. Chrysler workers did it in 2015.
The United Auto Workers said on Sunday that a nationwide strike will begin before midnight. The move comes after the union and General Motors failed to agree on a new contract.
If Lightfoot wanted to plug the budget hole without cutting services and freezing hiring, the money is there. But don’t count on it—not without a fight.
Joe Burns takes a critical look back at the many “general strikes” called in recent years.
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