The United Auto Workers (UAW) is a union that represents hundreds of thousands of workers in the automotive industry. On 14 September, UAW leadership called a strike when the deadline to make a deal with industry leadership passed. 13,000 auto workers have now walked out on the job from companies General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis. …
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Nabisco, Kellogg’s & John Deere Strikes & The US Labor Movement
Over the past few months, a wave of strikes has swept through the United States. In August, for instance, a strike began in Nabisco bakeries in Portland, Oregon, and soon spread to other Nabisco plants in five states, with 1,000 total workers taking part. During the pandemic over the past year and a half, Nabisco’s …
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Frustrating Media, United Auto Workers Strike
The mainstream media has been frustrating this week. Granted, they are always at the very least frustrating and more often excruciatingly corrupt in their coverage, but this week had me shaking my head a little more than usual. First of all, as you might have heard, Bernie Sanders suffered a heart complication last week and …
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