Thousands of non-union auto workers are already organizing across the 10 foreign-owned transplants, including Toyota, Hyundai, and Mercedes, as well as in the electric vehicle sector at Tesla, Rivian, and Lucid.
UAW, representing 400,000 in the US and over 580,000 retired workers, makes announcement as military operations resume
Modest goals won’t get us where we need to go. We need to think big. The labor movement needs, before anything, genuine ambition for a new America...We need labor leaders who see their jobs as climbing mountains no matter how high they are.
"We've shown the world that this industry is harming workers and consumers to the benefit of company executives and the rich—and it's time that the working class did something about it," said the UAW president.
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Neal E. Boudette, who covers the auto industry for The Times, discusses the historic deal and why it was such a big win for workers.
Workers approved the deals at GM, Ford, and Stellantis. The new contracts go further than many people thought possible.
There is unquestionably a new force undergirding the labor market: a new class consciousness. But leaving neoliberalism behind will require sustained collective action among millions of unorganized workers.
With its successful strike, UAW broke with decades of concessions, won on pay and workplace democracy, and launched a new national labor leader. There’s much more organizing to be done, but this is an unmitigated victory for the entire working class.
Recent union contract gains against a backdrop of decades of union decline, worsening wealth inequality and broken labor laws.
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