Live updates: United Auto Workers, UAW, go on strike against GM, Ford and Stellantis

Table Of Content

• Tesla boosts pay for Fremont factory workers whom the UAW wants to unionize
• Column: The UAW sends a lightning bolt into anti-union states with a huge victory at a VW plant
• Column: The carnage from the rollback of child labor laws is just starting
• In Historic Breakthrough, Volkswagen Workers Become First Southern Autoworkers to Win Their Union
• “Living Large at Mercedes?”: New UAW Video Exposes Staggering CEO Pay at Mercedes Ahead of Alabama Plant Union Vote
• California climbers train for Mt. Everest from the comfort of their own beds

Another is that labor negotiations, when they’re conducted in good faith, should be seen as a potential win-win. Better pay for workers cuts down on absenteeism and turnover, which is a phenomenon that the original Henry Ford, by no means an outright friend of labor, perceived in 1914. In other words, the UAW and other heavy industry unions such as the Teamsters have a ways to go to reinforce their recent victories by carrying their fight to new plants in parts of the country — such as the Deep South — where they have long struggled to make headway.

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Morning 4: Recently laid off UAW workers hold protest -- and other news.

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Tesla boosts pay for Fremont factory workers whom the UAW wants to unionize

Aramark workers will now vote on whether to approve the tentative agreement. In a new video, Mike Booth, UAW Vice President and Director of the GM Department, shares some of the record gains contained in the deal and the strategy behind winning the agreement. UAW Local 2320 – The National Organization of Legal Services Workers (NOLSW) represents most people who work in federally funded legal services programs across the U.S., as well as workers in other types of law offices and various human services programs. VIRTUAL – On Friday, April 26 at 10pm ET, UAW President Shawn Fain, alongside the UAW Daimler Truck North America Bargaining Committee, will address Daimler workers and allies on Facebook Live just hours before the contract for the over 7,000 UAW workers expires at midnight. And to the rest of our union, and workers across the South, stay ready to Stand Up and keep winning big.

Column: The UAW sends a lightning bolt into anti-union states with a huge victory at a VW plant

It said they had a meeting held following Friday's protest, the contents of which will not be made available until after the quad is cleared. It added that protesters, including some not affiliated with Tufts, have created conditions that have attracted complaints and that while much of a demonstration held on Friday was peaceful, "there were many actions that violated university policies." Other buildings on the campus in Arcata are at risk of being occupied, and protesters “have shown a willingness” to lock themselves in facilities and steal equipment, the officials said.

Column: The carnage from the rollback of child labor laws is just starting

Sprinkle and others explained the pay scale at the facility, which picks and distributes parts to dealers across Southern California. The starting salary for new hires is $15.76 an hour, the workers told me, and while it accrues with experience, there’s a cap at $25 an hour, which can only be reached after eight years. That’s what comes with being stranded on the second tier of lower-wage workers, which has affected all new hires since 2009, when the union agreed to a deal saving the auto companies from bankruptcy.

The UAW is continuing to avoid targeting plants that make Detroit’s bestsellers, such as the Ford F-150 and Stellantis’ Ram pickups, which represent outsize shares of the companies’ revenue and profit. That represents a union strategy to gradually increase the pain of a strike on the automakers. However, the industry’s supply chain is so integrated that even hitting lower-profile plants cuts into production.

“Living Large at Mercedes?”: New UAW Video Exposes Staggering CEO Pay at Mercedes Ahead of Alabama Plant Union Vote

The workforce has been cut in half, with the same workload, “if not more,” he said. Strikers have twice had guns pulled on them by non-union truckers seeking to use a distribution center to move auto parts to dealers. A unique strength of the UAW is the solidarity between its active and retired members.

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Stellantis spared from more strikes, convoy rallies at UAW Solidarity House.

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They have a lot to show for their efforts thus far, and for at least the next year, an administration in Washington that has supported Americans’ collective bargaining rights like no other administration in 90 years. At the moment, they appear to have the advantage over recalcitrant managements. It’s also true, however, that the nonunion companies’ responses could successfully undermine the UAW’s organizing efforts. Subaru said it would raise pay at its plant in Lafayette, Ind., though it hasn’t said by how much. Please email us your feedback, ideas and comments to uaw.org/questions. Sometimes, we get questions that are beyond the scope of uaw.org/questions.

UAW to launch unionizing drive at 13 carmakers, including Tesla and Toyota

But they could read the handwriting on the wall from the UAW’s contract settlements. If they didn’t, UAW President Shawn Fain made sure they wouldn’t miss the message. UAW spokesman Brian Rothenberg has indicated that union records would have survived a blaze at the building. When fire ripped through the third floor of Solidarity House, the UAW's headquarters, last year, the blaze left potentially millions of dollars in damage to the Detroit landmark and appeared to be a metaphor for the corruption scandal burning through the union.

Toyota said it would give its workers a raise worth about 9% on its top pay rate, beginning in January. One line in particular stands out in federal court papers from October, when UAW Official A, identified as Jones by a source, told a subordinate in a meeting last March that he wished they "burned the records." All told, this deal is worth dramatically more than any past Daimler contract. ALL Daimler workers will receive a MINIMUM of a 25% general wage increase over the next four years. We’re here tonight to announce a major victory for the members who build Freightliner and Western Star trucks and Thomas Built buses.

Negotiations between the studios and the Screen Actors Guild are continuing. Nor should it escape workers’ notice that the nonunion companies had to be goaded by the UAW’s success into offering raises to their own employees. Strikes against Starbucks stores get all the publicity, but a mass strike by UPS workers could be the turning point for American labor. The improved wage scales and other workplace benefits announced by the Japanese automakers are, of course, good for those companies’ employees, who become collateral beneficiaries of the UAW’s efforts. A funny thing happened in the wake of the United Auto Workers’ recent contract settlements with major auto companies .

The University of Southern California closed its main campus Saturday evening "due to a disturbance," the university said on X. "We'll leave it to local authorities to determine how these protests are managed," Kirby told Stephanopoulos, "but we want them to be peaceful protests and obviously we don't want to see anybody hurt in the process of peacefully protesting." The student protests -- some of which have turned into around-the-clock encampments -- have erupted throughout the nation following arrests and student removals at Columbia University in New York City. Students at schools including Yale University, New York University, Harvard University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Southern California and more have launched protests.

After a short standoff, the truck reversed and pulled up the road toward another entrance. But just to be sure, a few members piled into a van and took off toward that entrance. As impressive as it is, the UAW’s success record at the bargaining table is only part of the story. From our earliest days, the UAW has been a leader in the struggle to secure economic and social justice for all people. As usual, the media and politicians are blaming the possibility of an auto strike on the auto workers union, but company managements are the guilty parties.

The three have been generous in passing profits on to shareholders through stock buybacks. GM has repurchased more than $3 billion in shares since mid-2022 and issued dividends to shareholders of $397 million last year. Just seven days ago the company declared a quarterly dividend of 9 cents a share, at an estimated cost of $123.5 million. UPS reached a contract agreement with 330,000 Teamster-represented drivers and other package handlers in July, staving off a strike that could have crippled its business and reverberated across the U.S. economy. The contracts are tentative, pending ratification by the members, and the Stellantis and GM contracts haven’t been fully disclosed. But it’s presumed that they follow the Ford deal, which has been published.