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The highlights, lowlights, and lasting implications of one of the most vitriolic strikes in modern history.
By the 1990s, Stamford had the third most Fortune 500 corporate headquarters in the United States, after New York and Chicago, and the luxury housing market was thriving in what had become the richest county in the country. Service-sector workers – janitors, taxi drivers, nursing home and hotel workers, home health aides, city clerks ...
The United Auto Workers union announced it reached a last-minute tentative agreement with truck and bus manufacturer Daimler Truck, averting a potential strike of more than 7,000 workers.
The ramifications of the "historic" contract as the UAW calls it will be felt for years as the Big Three and nonunion automakers come to grips with a new reality of empowered workers.
The UAW's targeted strikes against General Motors, Stellantis and Ford began after the union's contract with the companies expired at midnight on Sept. 14. At the time, 13,000 workers walked out ...
In March 2023, newly elected UAW president Shawn Fain stated that workers were "fed up with the status quo" and assured that he would negotiate for changes to workers' contracts. Fain called for cost of living adjustments to account for inflation ahead of the current contracts expiring on September 14 and asked for wage increases lost in the ...
Time is running short to avoid a strike at America’s three unionized automakers, and the distance between the United Auto Workers union and the companies remains large.
Shelton Tappes (March 27, 1911 – April 19, 1991) was an American labor organizer and civil rights activist, known for his role in drafting and negotiating the anti-discrimination clause included in the first contract (May 1941) between Ford Motor Company and the United Auto Workers (UAW.) [1] [2] [3]