While some in the labor movement are seeking to distance themselves, most are supportive even as they call for reforms.
In the wake of former UAW President Gary Jones pleading guilty last week to stealing more than $1 million, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider is demanding 'serious action' on reform inside the United Auto Workers 'within a couple of months.'
Front-line workers are staging job action after job action in their quest for protection from the coronavirus
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Carter Eugene Adams visited workers on the picket line at the Lordstown, OH plant where they had worked for decades. The plant is now permanently closed as part of the deal between GM and the UAW.
All that surveillance is used to exert greater management control over workers, drilling them on their choices and how they spend every second.
Worley worried about the union's future: “They say 'we'll get 'em next time,'” he said, “but there may not be a next time. We lost 30,000 jobs in the last 10 years.”
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