UAW
5 briefs
UAW Is Threatening to Strike the Plant That Builds Stellantis' Most Profitable Truck.
The fight is about who fixes the machines, not who builds the cars. Skilled trades outsourcing is the knife Stellantis is using to cut labor costs, and the UAW is finally picking it up.
UAW Is Voting to Strike Stellantis. The Real Fight Is About Who Gets to Do Skilled Work in America.
Six thousand workers at Stellantis' Ram plant are voting whether to authorize a strike over outsourced electricians and toolmakers. The vote is a proxy for a larger question the 2023 contract didn't answer.
Harvard's Graduate Workers Are on Strike While Trump Freezes $2.2 Billion in Grants. The University Is Being Squeezed From Both Sides.
4,000 workers walked out demanding higher wages and visa protections for international students. Harvard's administration is simultaneously fighting a federal funding freeze, a tax on its endowment, and threats to its nonprofit status. Everyone is using everyone else as leverage.
Harvard's Grad Workers Are Striking for Wages. They're Also Striking Against ICE.
4,000 graduate workers walked off the job at one of the world's wealthiest universities. The demands mix pay parity with immigration protections in a way Harvard cannot easily split. That's the point.
Sanders and the UAW Say AI Will Do to Factory Workers What NAFTA Did. They Are Probably Right.
Bernie Sanders and UAW President Shawn Fain held a Capitol Hill press conference warning that AI could wipe out 600,000 Midwest manufacturing jobs. Nobody in Congress is drafting a response.