United Auto Workers

Protesters Demonstrate During The 2024 Democratic National Convention In Chicago

United Auto Workers calls for a Palestinian speaker at DNC as thousands protest nearby

7:23pm August 22, 2024

Criticism for Democrats not including a Palestinian speaker is coming from across the party — including organized labor. Meanwhile, thousands of protesters are gathering nearby for one last push.

More than 5,000 workers assemble luxury SUVs and EV batteries for Mercedes-Benz in Alabama.

Mercedes workers vote no to union. UAW says they were illegally intimidated

5:38pm May 17, 2024

More than 5,000 Mercedes-Benz workers who build luxury SUVs in Alabama were eligible to vote on whether to join the UAW. Workers faced intense anti-union messaging from Mercedes in the run-up.

Image shows the outside of Thomas Built Buses facility in High Point

Economy

Labor deal points to growing union strength in the South

3:58pm April 29, 2024

by Paul Garber

Daimler Truck and the United Auto Workers reached an 11th-hour agreement late last week that averted a strike at locations including Thomas Built Buses in High Point.

Jeremy Kimbrell has worked at the Mercedes plant in Vance, Ala., since 1999. Having been involved in several failed union drives, he says this latest one feels different.

Seeking to defy history, the UAW is coming closer to unionizing in the South

6:07pm April 05, 2024

Autoworkers at Volkswagen's plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., will vote in mid-April on whether to join the United Auto Workers union. Mercedes workers in Tuscaloosa County, Ala., will soon follow.

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President Biden is greeted by Shawn Fain, President of the United Auto Workers. The union endorsed Biden's reelection bid on Wednesday.

Politics & Government

The UAW endorsed Biden — and panned Republican frontrunner Trump as a 'scab'

6:50pm January 24, 2024

by Deepa Shivaram

Most of the country's other big unions endorsed President Biden in the earliest days of his reelection campaign. But the United Auto Workers held back until today.

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Frontline health care workers hold a demonstration outside Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center on September 4.

Health & Safety

75,000 Kaiser nurses, pharmacists and other workers have walked off the job

1:29pm October 04, 2023

by Danielle Kaye

In the largest health care strike in U.S. history, over 75,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente hospitals and medical facilities across the U.S. walked off the job on Wednesday morning.

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Ford Motor Co. Executive Chairman Bill Ford announces the automaker's new BlueOval Battery Park, Feb. 13, 2023, in Romulus, Mich.

National

Ford pauses construction of Michigan battery plant amid contract talks with UAW union

1:51am September 26, 2023

by The Associated Press

The move comes as the company is in the midst of national contract talks with the United Auto Workers union, which wants to represent workers at battery factories and win them top wages.

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain speaks outside the UAW Local 900 headquarters across the street from the Ford Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich. The union announced the start of a strike at three factories just after midnight on Friday.

How Shawn Fain, an unlikely and outspoken president, led the UAW to strike

9:42am September 17, 2023

by Don Gonyea

The former union electrician was an underdog in recent UAW leadership elections, but with a tough love approach to auto companies in negotiations, he narrowly won. Now he's taking the union on strike.

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Autoworker Kevin Winston, left, talks with United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain outside the General Motors Factory Zero plant in Hamtramck, Mich., on July 12.

Politics & Government

Autoworker union not giving Biden an easy ride in 2024 as contract talks pick up speed

1:32pm July 26, 2023

by Don Gonyea

The new UAW president says his members are being left out as the industry transitions to electric vehicles so he's applying pressure on the auto companies and the White House to do more for workers.

In a frame grab from video, United Auto Workers presidential candidate Shawn Fain is interviewed, Friday, Jan. 13, 2023, in Detroit. The vote count in the election to decide the United Auto Workers' top leader should come to an end Thursday. Challenger Fain leads incumbent Ray Curry, but they're still counting challenged ballots that could change the outcome.

Politics & Government

The president of the United Auto Workers union has been ousted in an election

4:53am March 26, 2023

by The Associated Press

A challenger defeated the president of the United Auto Workers in a close election and vowed Saturday to take a more confrontational stance in negotiating with the big automakers.