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United Auto Workers

  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Harris gains endorsement of car workers as union support builds

    Backing from UAW a boost for Democratic presidential candidate with labour issues set to be central to election campaign

    A woman rides her mini bike in support of UAW strike against at a Missouri General Motors plant that manufactures trucks and vans in Wentzville, Missouri
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Automobiles
    Blow to UAW as Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama vote against union

    Defeat marks a reversal for the United Auto Workers after victory at Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga

    Exterior of Mercedes plant in Vance, Alabama
  • Saturday, 20 April, 2024
    Unions
    VW workers in Tennessee vote to join union in win for US labour movement

    Victory was part of a $40mn campaign to organise workers at 13 mostly foreign-owned carmakers across the US

  • Thursday, 4 April, 2024
    News in-depthAutomobiles
    How VW and Toyota became the targets of an emboldened US union

    Foreign carmakers have been swept up in a campaign that could transform the industry’s economics

    Union voting badges
  • Wednesday, 13 December, 2023
    The Big Read
    The unexpected revival of America’s trade unions

    Labour organisers believe the political momentum has shifted in their direction after years of decline. But are they overplaying their hand?

    Shawn Fain in a red shirt on a picket line at GM in Belleville, Michigan, with a background image of strikers at a picket line in Detroit
  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
    Automobiles
    Emboldened US union launches membership drive across 13 carmakers

    Tesla, Toyota and Volkswagen among companies targeted after UAW wins concessions at Detroit’s Big Three

    United Auto Workers on a picket line in Detroit in September
  • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
    Volkswagen AG
    Volkswagen becomes latest non-union carmaker to raise US pay

    German carmaker’s 11% increase follows moves by Nissan, Hyundai, Honda and Toyota to lift workers’ wages

    The Volkswagen Chattanooga assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee
  • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
    Joe Biden
    Biden courts union votes in trip to Midwest car plant

    US president hails ‘game-changer’ deals struck by workers and backs unionisation at Tesla and Toyota

    Joe Biden
  • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
    Behind the Money podcast20 min listen
    Will the union ‘renaissance’ last?

    Looking at the strategies of three major labour movements and whether their efforts could signal a new era of power for unions in America

  • Friday, 3 November, 2023
    John Gapper
    The United Auto Workers teach university lecturers how to strike

    US carworkers have been cleverer with industrial action than the UK’s University and College Union

    University staff strike in London. The University and College Union ‘s weakness was that its strikes did not hit university revenues because students kept on enrolling
  • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
    Stellantis
    US carworker strikes cost Stellantis €3bn in lost revenues

    Chrysler owner estimates hit to profitability from six weeks of US industrial action at less than €750mn

    Members of the United Auto Workers hold signs during a strike
  • Monday, 30 October, 2023
    General Motors Co
    US carworkers suspend strike after reaching tentative deal with GM

    Breakthrough with UAW follows similar agreements with Ford and Chrysler owner Stellantis

    Striking UAW workers outside a Ford assembly plant in Wayne, Michigan, in September
  • Sunday, 29 October, 2023
    Automobiles
    Stellantis and autoworker union reach tentative deal to end strike

    After agreement with Ford this week, GM is last of Big Three carmakers yet to settle with UAW

  • Friday, 27 October, 2023
    News in-depthUS employment
    Union workers score big pay gains as labour action sweeps US

    UAW’s tentative deal with Ford is latest to reflect revived power at the negotiating table

    Aya Konishi, a teaching assistant at the University of California Los Angeles,
  • Thursday, 26 October, 2023
    Ford Motor Co
    Ford says UAW strike cut $1.3bn from operating earnings

    Stoppages led company to make 80,000 fewer cars and trucks than expected

    Discarded UAW picket signs
  • Thursday, 26 October, 2023
    Ford Motor Co
    Ford reaches deal with union to end US strike and raise wages

    Detroit carmaker is the first of the industry’s Big Three to resolve contract battle with union

    UAW members picketing during the union’s strike
  • Tuesday, 24 October, 2023
    General Motors Co
    GM says strike has cost $800mn as 5,000 more workers walk out

    United Auto Workers target lucrative factory for Suburban and Escalade models in widening action

    Striking United Auto Workers members from the General Motors Lansing Delta Plant picket in Delta Township, Michigan
  • Monday, 16 October, 2023
    Ford Motor Co
    Ford chair warns extended strike will boost Tesla, Toyota and China

    Bill Ford says ‘future of the American automobile industry’ is at stake as UAW walkouts enter second month

    Factory workers and UAW union members form a picket line outside the Ford Kentucky Truck Plan in Louisville
  • Friday, 6 October, 2023
    Automobiles
    GM agrees to put EV battery plants under labour contract, union says

    Tentative concession by carmaker to UAW comes as strike enters fourth week

    Striking United Auto Workers members from the General Motors Lansing Delta Plant picket in Delta Township, Michigan
  • Friday, 29 September, 2023
    Automobiles
    Auto workers expand strike against Ford and GM

    Stellantis spared further action as union piles pressure on companies

    Striking UAW workers outside a Stellantis plant in Michigan
  • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
    Automobiles
    US autoworkers strike: when will dealerships run out of cars to sell?

    Inventories of popular models like Ford Bronco are running low amid UAW action

    An unsold Ford Bronco and Bronco Sport in Wayne, Michigan
  • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
    Joe Biden
    Biden joins striking autoworkers on Michigan picket line

    President appears to back union demand for 40% pay rise

    US President Joe Biden speaks next to Shawn Fain, president of the United Auto Workers, in Michigan on Tuesday
  • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
    US politics & policy
    Biden and Trump plan rival Michigan trips in scrap for union votes

    President will visit picket line as autoworker strike raises temperature in 2024 swing state

    UAW members and workers at the Mopar Parts Center Line, a Stellantis parts distribution centre in Michigan
  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    Automobiles
    US auto strike expands to 38 GM and Stellantis facilities

    Ford spared further action after improved offer to workers as Joe Biden plans visit to picket line

    Striking car workers demonstrate
  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    Shawn Fain
    How ‘true believer’ Shawn Fain reignited pro-union fervour in Detroit

    The UAW leader of a three-pronged strike is shaking US automakers

    UAW president Shawn Fain
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