Legislation set to be introduced in the state Senate would protect Michigan workers by capping the annual percentage rate for payday loans at 36%. State lawmakers said the reforms could stop families from spiraling into debt.
The United Auto Workers won at least partial victories on many of the key demands that led to the six-week strike against Ford, General Motors and Jeep maker Stellantis.
General Motors and the United Auto Workers union have reached a tentative contract agreement that could end a six-week-old strike against Detroit automakers, a person briefed on the deal said Monday.
As Britney Johnson paced the picket line outside Ford's Wayne Assembly plant, she wasn't just carrying a sign demanding higher pay and other changes. She also carried a legacy of car factory jobs and union wages that allowed generations of her family to enjoy middle-class lifestyles and that for years had been unattainable for many Black Americans.
Workers will get a 25% increase to base wages, plus cost of living raises that will raise the top hourly wage by over 30% to more than $40 per hour for top-scale assembly plant workers by the end of the contract. The starting hourly wage will grow to more than $28.
BY KEN COLEMAN, MICHIGAN ADVANCE As an escalating workers’ strike heads toward its sixth week, about 5,000 union members at General Motors’ Arlington Assembly in Texas on Tuesday joined the United Auto Workers (UAW) walkout against the Detroit Three. The UAW...
The United Auto Workers union has once again escalated its strikes against big Detroit automakers, this time adding a factory that makes Ram pickup trucks for Stellantis.
As the United Auto Workers (UAW) strike against the Detroit Three automakers stretches into its fifth week, President Shawn Fain said Friday afternoon that the union “has cards left to play” in negotiations.
Rain did not stop hundreds of striking workers from taking to the streets of downtown Detroit on Thursday during what they called a March for Workers’ Rights and Economic Justice.
Up to $1 billion in federal funding has been awarded in Michigan to help develop regional supply chains for hydrogen-powered trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles. MICHIGAN—Federal funding awarded to Michigan this month will create a new “hydrogen hub” to help...
