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December 5, 2019

Tidbits - Dec. 5, 2019 - Reader Comments: Economy Not Fine, Half Work Low-Wage Jobs; Reparations; Chicago Teachers Strike Lessons; UAW GM Strike Was Significant; Resources: Bullies in Blue; Multicultural Children's Books; "I Am Troy Davis"; more

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Reader Comments: Economy Not Fine, Half Work Low-Wage Jobs; Reparations; Centrist Dems; Work at Amazon; Chicago Teachers Strike Lessons; UAW GM Strike Was Significant; Resources: Bullies in Blue; Multicultural Children's Books; "I Am Troy Davis"....

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October 30, 2019

'Bosses Take Note': Why GM's Strike Could Inspire More Collective Action

Steven Greenhouse The Guardian

More Americans engaged in work stoppages last year than since 1986 – and the successful GM strike may encourage other union leaders, experts say.

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October 9, 2019

The Return of the Strike

Sarah Jaffe The Progressive

The picketing GM workers and impending Chicago Teachers Union action suggest a dramatic revival of striking as a tactic.

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September 22, 2019

What’s at Stake in the General Motors Strike

Nelson Lichtenstein Dissent

Only a strong movement can put the management of capitalism on the political agenda.

September 19, 2019

GM Dumped Health Care for Striking Workers. That Poured Gas on Fire, Expert Says

Phoebe Wall Howard USA Today

GM cuts healthcare benefits for workers, as strike enters 4th day. This induces workers to get more angry. GM thinks this will scare them or get them to rethink the cost of their benefits. It's going to backfire. It's quick, rash and insensitive.

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September 16, 2019

GM Strikers Have One Chance: Vote No

Jane Slaughter Labor Notes

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.

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July 21, 2019

The UAW Has No Reason Not to Push for Everything

Erik Shilling Jalopnik

The UAW kind of sucks, but it is still a union, and therefore inherently good.

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June 16, 2019

UAW Director: Union Ended Nurses' Strike Because Mercy Was Going To Permanently Replace Them On Friday

Amy Steigerwald WTOL11

Mercy says nurses returned Thursday, local UAW says informational meetings now are Friday and Saturday

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June 11, 2019

Volkswagen Employees in Tennessee Could Help Determine the Future of the United Auto Workers

Chris Isidore CNN

The Volkswagen plant would boost UAW's flagging membership, way down because of plant closings and automation. It represented more than 1 million people at auto assembly plants in the 1980s, but only 155,000 at GM, Ford and Fiat Chrysler today.

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April 2, 2019

GM Squeezed $118 Million From Its Ohio Workers, Then Shut The Plant

David Welch Bloomberg

At stake in Lordstown, Ohio, are the livelihoods of more than 1,400 plant workers and thousands more indirect jobs in the surrounding area of northeast Ohio, a key swing state in presidential elections.

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