Labor

The UAW Has Now Reached a Tentative Agreement With Each of the Big Three

The deal with General Motors, the last of the major U.S. automakers to settle, could put an end to the union's historic Stand-Up Strike. But now it's up to the members.

Jake Johnson

Labor

“It Kind of Feels Like Prison”: Injured, Burned Out and Under Surveillance at Amazon

More than 40% of Amazon workers get injured on the job, according to a new report. The company says they are “industrial athletes.”

Katrina Pham

Labor

Here’s What UAW Workers Won in a “Historic” TA After Striking at Ford

After more than a month on the picket line, autoworkers have reached a tentative agreement with Ford including massive wage increases, cost of living adjustments and the right to strike over plant closures. Now the deal goes to the membership, while strikes continue at GM and Stellantis.

Jeff Schuhrke

Labor

UAW and Ford Announce Tentative Deal

The tentative deal between the UAW and Ford would end the strike against one of the mammoth automakers making up The Big Three, according to the union.

Ari Bloomekatz

Labor

UAW Strikes Two Major Plants This Week Including "The Most Profitable Auto Plant in the World”

The latest strikes at General Motors and Stellantis bring the total number of United Auto Workers members on strike to some 46,000.

Keith Brower Brown

LaborViewpointPalestine

Starbucks Is Exploiting the Violence in Gaza and Israel to Attack Its Union

The president of Workers United writes that Starbucks is endangering its own employees and appears to even endorse a boycott of its own stores. “I am afraid,” said one worker. “My mom doesn’t want me to go to work.”

Lynne Fox

A group of protestors wearing all-black stand in the middle of a road. They hold a large black banner that says "CEASEFIRE" in white writing.

LaborPalestine

Unions and Workers Are Increasingly Demanding a Cease-Fire and an End to Gaza Siege

“The rising escalation of war and arms sales doesn't serve the interests of workers anywhere.”

Luis Feliz Leon and Alexandra Bradbury

LaborInterviewPodcast

Striking Autoworkers Have Made Major Strides. They’re Not Done Yet.

Lisa Xu and Chris Budnick on the power of worker organizing—and the UAW’s newfound militance.

Teddy Ostrow and Ruby Walsh

LaborInterviewPodcast

Mass Protest Hasn’t Won the Change We Need. What Comes Next?

Reporter Vincent Bevins on his new book, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and The Missing Revolution.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborViewpoint

God Is on the Side of Autoworkers

The UAW’s fight is a righteous one and President Shawn Fain knows that “with faith the size of even a mustard seed, people can move a mountain.”

William J. Barber II

LaborPalestine

The U.S. Labor Voices Opposing Military Aid to Israel

“U.S. military aid going in is pouring gasoline onto a fire. It encourages that there be military solutions, and military solutions will get more people killed.”

Jeff Schuhrke and Sarah Lazare

LaborViewpoint

Republicans Are Using Anti-China Rhetoric to Undercut Striking UAW Workers’ Demands

Rather than actually supporting auto workers in their strike against billionaire CEOs at the Big Three, GOP officials are instead using the labor action to rail against electric vehicles and stoke conflict with China.

Jeff Schuhrke and Sarah Lazare

LaborFeature

Striking Autoworkers Remember Broken Promises

Workers at the Big Three agreed to major concessions as part of the auto bailout of 2009. Fourteen years later, with business booming, they’re on strike to demand what they lost—and more.

Alice Herman

Labor

“This Just Cost You Kentucky Truck Plant": UAW Announces Major Surprise Strike

Some 8,700 additional auto workers walked off the job on Wednesday in a critical escalation of the Stand-Up Strike.

Keith Brower Brown

Labor

“Is This a Union Town or What?” Chicago's Transformative Role in the Labor Movement—Past and Present—Fuels UAW Rally

Mayor Brandon Johnson and local, national and international labor leaders joined United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain at a rally for striking autoworkers and allies at the Local 551 union hall.

Maia McDonald

Labor

UAW Scores Major Victory, GM to Put EV Battery Plants in National Contract

While the UAW's strike against the Big Three is ongoing and bargaining continues, union president Shawn Fain announced an important victory.

Luis Feliz Leon

Labor

Kaiser Workers Are Out on the Largest Healthcare Strike in U.S. History

This week, more than 75,000 unionized workers at Kaiser Permanente walked off the job, the latest in a string of high-profile labor actions across the country.

Jake Johnson

LaborInterviewPodcast

The UAW Fight is an Exercise in Class Struggle Unionism

UAW President Shawn Fain has said that “corporate greed” is the enemy, and autoworkers are fighting back.

Teddy Ostrow and Ruby Walsh

Labor

UAW Autoworkers Strike Grows Larger, Stellantis Has Been Spared in This Round

The UAW strike that started Sept. 15 has now increased to 25,000 workers striking against the Big Three automakers. According to UAW President Shawn Fain, while negotiations continue with all of the Big Three, Stellantis has made "significant progress" on some issues.

Luis Feliz Leon

LaborInterviewPodcast

A Government Shutdown Would Shutter the NLRB. That’s Bad News for Striking Workers.

A government shutdown would place NLRB workers on furlough, leaving striking workers without a crucial ally in their fight.

Maximillian Alvarez

A crowd of striking workers hold up UAW signs and fists, standing in front of two trucks that say Teamsters.

Labor

They Sacrificed to Survive Bankruptcy. They Worked Through A Pandemic. Now, Autoworkers Have Had Enough.

“I want to see them return what they promised to the workers that saved the company,” says a striking Stellantis worker in Minnesota.

Amie Stager

Labor

How the Government Can Help Build Industrial Unions

Money. For organizing. Give it to us.

Hamilton Nolan

LaborEn Español

“La lucha es global”: Trabajadores tras el mundo están en solidaridad con los trabajadores automotrices en huelga

Desde Brasil y México a Sudáfrica y Malasia, la solidaridad laboral internacional está reforzando la lucha de la UAW.

Jeff Schuhrke

Labor

It Shouldn’t Be a Big Deal That Biden Joined Striking Workers on the Picket Line—But It Is

“The most union-friendly president in U.S. history” may be a low bar, but Biden took another step toward clearing it by standing with Michigan autoworkers out on strike.

Jeff Schuhrke