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...
“[These] charges are taking real money out of the pockets of American families. These junk fees can add up to hundreds of dollars, weighing down family budgets, making it harder to pay family bills,” President Biden said on Wednesday.
The proposed regulation would require employers to pay overtime to their salaried workers who are in executive, administrative, and professional roles, and make less than $1,059 a week, or $55,068 a year for full-time employees.
While Ticketmaster and SeatGeek have agreed to institute more transparency when it comes to ticket sales, some anti-monopoly advocates think the answer is “breaking up” these companies altogether.
