MoveOn, Labor Unions Aim To Teach 100,000 Occupy's Nonviolent Protest Tactics
WASHINGTON -- Boot camp is about to begin. On Monday and extending throughout this week, a coalition of progressive organizations from across the c...
WASHINGTON -- Boot camp is about to begin. On Monday and extending throughout this week, a coalition of progressive organizations from across the c...
David Kiley | Posted 05.23.2012
The UAW pitch to VW workers will be higher wages and job security. But the VW workers will be wary. They saw how much the union gave up to GM and Chrysler in the 2009 bankruptcies.
HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 03.23.2012
Visitors to the Strand Book Store, a quirky bastion of the New York intellectual tradition on Broadway and 12th Street, may have noticed that the plac...
Reuters | Posted 05.06.2012
By Deepa Seetharaman March 6 (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co Chief Executive Alan Mulally was awarded shares in the No. 2 U.S. automaker wh...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.05.2012
Three years later, after President Obama placed his faith in workers, the nation's economic outlook is brighter. As is that of GM and Chrysler. President Obama wagered on American workers. And it paid off.
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 02.28.2012
WASHINGTON -- Union members and their relatives who voted in Tuesday's GOP primary in Michigan broke for Rick Santorum over Mitt Romney by a wide marg...
David Kiley | Posted 04.25.2012
The union may not be as weak as Mitt Romney has been banking on.
HuffingtonPost.com | Simone Landon | Posted 02.24.2012
Around 250 auto workers and supporters marched in Detroit Friday to send a message to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney: "Don't bet agains...
HuffingtonPost.com | Anna Staver | Posted 02.07.2012
WASHINGTON -- Opponents of Alabama's contested immigration law are asking local manufacturers of Mercedes-Benz, Honda and Hyundai cars to help them pu...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 04.07.2012
Although conservative candidates revel in ridiculing Western Europe, America could learn crucial economic lessons from Germany, which maintains trade surpluses, including one with China in auto parts.
HuffingtonPost.com | David Sands | Posted 12.31.2011
Autoworkers occupied a factory in Flint, Mich., 75 years ago Friday, launching a struggle that would involve tens of thousands of workers and bring th...
Michael Moore | Posted 02.29.2012
On this day, December 30th, in 1936 -- 75 years ago today -- hundreds of workers at the General Motors factories in Flint, Michigan, took over the facilities and occupied them for 44 days. My uncle was one of them.
AP | By DEE-ANN DURBIN | Posted 12.28.2011
DETROIT -- Moody's Investors Service raised the corporate debt ratings for General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. on Thursday, citing new labor agreeme...
AP | DEE-ANN DURBIN and TOM KRISHER | Posted 12.19.2011
DETROIT — Ford Motor Co.'s U.S. factory workers have approved a new four-year labor contract that promises profit-sharing checks and billions in...
AP | By DINESH RAMDE | Posted 12.15.2011
MILWAUKEE -- Military-vehicle maker Oshkosh Corp. and its union leaders reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract, one that removes a prov...
Posted 12.12.2011
DETROIT - The United Auto Workers and Chrysler Group LLC reached a tentative four-year labor contract for the No. 3 U.S. automaker's 26,000 hourly...
David Macaray | Posted 12.09.2011
We hear "sell-out" applied to the United Auto Workers and, unfortunately, we hear it applied with little or no understanding of how ferociously the union resisted it, or how forcefully the two-tier configuration was crammed down their throats.
Posted 12.09.2011
OSHKOSH, Wisconsin (Reuters) - Workers at defense contractor Oshkosh Corp turned down a new five-year contract offer from the company for a second...
Posted 12.04.2011
DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co and the United Auto Workers union have reached tentative agreement on a new four-year labor contract, the union ...
Posted 11.29.2011
Ratings agency Standard & Poor's raised its corporate credit rating on General Motors Co by two notches on Thursday, saying the automaker's new la...
AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 11.28.2011
DETROIT — Factory workers at General Motors have overwhelmingly approved a new four-year contract with the company that includes profit-sharing ...
AP | By TOM KRISHER | Posted 11.22.2011
DETROIT -- Negotiations over a new four-year contract between Chrysler and the United Auto Workers have broken down as both sides refuse to budge on k...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 11.21.2011
After weeks of negotiations between auto workers and General Motors over a new four-year contract, the union announced Tuesday that the company plans ...
AP | DEE-ANN DURBIN and TOM KRISHER | Posted 11.20.2011
DETROIT — In exchange for an agreement to create 5,100 union jobs in the U.S., General Motors will hire thousands of less expensive employees an...
Posted 11.20.2011
About 48,500 General Motors Co workers at U.S. factories will begin considering the details of a proposed four-year contract on Tuesday that repre...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 04.10.2012