UAW and GM reach tentative settlement
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Workers returned to work at General Motors after the automaker and the United Auto Workers reached a tentative settlement early Wednesday.
Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/bargaining/page/29/)
Workers returned to work at General Motors after the automaker and the United Auto Workers reached a tentative settlement early Wednesday.
Need your Chevy fixed? You may soon feel the pinch of the nationwide strike by the United Auto Workers against General Motors.
About 90 members of the United Auto Workers are picketing the General Motors Parts Distribution Center in Hudson, Wis., as part of the nationwide strike against GM that began Monday morning.
When Bakers Local 22 developed a new Health Reimbursement Arrangement plan, the union wanted to see the substantial cost savings go into increased wages and pension contributions for its members.
Health care is the main sticking point in contract talks between the United Auto Workers and General Motors. Bargaining continued over the weekend, with the union announcing it was set to strike at 11 a.m. EDT Monday if no deal was reached.
History is repeating itself in the stockyards of South St. Paul. Rallying outside the Dakota Premium meat packing plant, the notoriously anti-union company\’s workers and their supporters demanded Dakota Premium abandon its stall tactics and negotiate in good faith with members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 789.
"STRIKE!" The word echoed through the building, shouted by several hundred sign-waving AFSCME members.
University of Minnesota administrators say it\’s been business as usual since the AFSCME strike began, but workers on the picketline at the St. Paul campus beg to differ.
University of Minnesota faculty and students Tuesday decried disruptions caused by the week-old strike by AFSCME workers and demanded the university come back to the table with a fair wage offer.
Chris and Jane Vega got to spend some quality time together as a couple Tuesday – on the University of Minnesota picketline.