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Southern Auto Workers Are Rising


Southern Auto Workers Are Rising | Labor Notes

Auto workers are gearing up to smash through anti-union bulwarks in Alabama and Tennessee. In Chattanooga, Tennessee, at the only Volkswagen ...

Southern autoworkers on the rise - Interviews with UAW members

Tempest member Joel Sronce interviewed two United Auto Worker (UAW) members at plants in North Carolina on the eve of a major strike deadline.

Southern Autoworkers Stand Up - UAW.org

“UAW members ratify record contracts with Big 3 automakers,” Washington Post, Nov. 20, 2023; “Hyundai joins Honda, Toyota in raising wages after union takes on ...

SEIU on X: "Southern auto workers are rising up! UAW victories and ...

Southern auto workers are rising up! ✊ UAW victories and union drives at plants across the region signal a shift in labor power.

UAW gets closer to unionizing Volkswagen, Mercedes workers in ...

For decades, the UAW has been trying to organize Southern auto plants, but it's had little success. But since late last year, the union has ...

Southern Autoworkers Can Reverse Decades of Job Quality Decline

Automakers rely on non-union plants in the South to drive down wages across the country. A UAW victory in Tennessee and an upcoming vote in ...

Southern economic policies undermine job quality for auto workers

Summary: The growing auto manufacturing industry in the South offers a powerful opportunity to bring good jobs to the region.

3 reasons the UAW is having success in organizing Southern workers

Workers at two Mercedes plants near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, will soon vote for the first time on whether they want to join a union.

Electric vehicle jobs are booming in the anti-union South. UAW is ...

... UAW's Southern Gamble: Organizing Workers at Foreign-Owned Vehicle Plants.” While all of the Big Three's plants are unionized, not a single ...

Auto jobs are surging in notoriously anti-union South - CBT News

According to Stephen Silvia, professor at American University and author of The UAW's Southern Gamble: Organizing Workers at Foreign-Owned ...

'A Great Day': Workers at Second Southern Auto Industry Plant Join ...

An employee at Ultium Cells, an electric vehicle battery plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee, wears a shirt that reads, "UAW Strong, UAW Proud." ( ...

The UAW Is Organizing the South | The Nation

... auto plants in the Southeastern United States could produce a major breakthrough in the UAW's effort to organize workers in parts of the ...

How Auto Workers Turned the South From Antiunion to Union-Curious

Right-to-work laws, which had been passed by most Southern legislatures in the 1940s and '50s, were a selling point. Unions struggled to gain ...

Auto workers and class war: The South stands up - Liberation News

... UAW southern organizing drive is existential for auto workers and the entire working class. ... Auto workers are naturally raising the ...

Autoworkers at Alabama's Mercedes-Benz Plant File for a Union ...

But know this: Southern workers are rising, and we won't rest until justice is served.” BUILT IN A PINE FOREST IN NEARBY TUSCALOOSA in 1997 ...

3 Reasons the UAW Deal Spells Trouble for Southern Manufacturers

November 20, 2023, is the day the United Auto Workers (UAW) union announced they had reached a deal with “the Big Three” - Stellantis, Ford, ...

UAW Announces $40 Million Commitment to Organizing Auto and ...

The major announcement comes on the heels of growing organizing momentum across the non-union auto sector, with workers at Volkswagen in ...

UAW's Southern strategy: Union revs up drive to get workers ...

Persuading Southern autoworkers to join a union remains one of the U.S. labor ... raising pay at their Southern plants. The union justifiably ...

Shawn Fain Hopes Southern Auto Workers Never See This Chart

In the private sector, union density remained flat at 6%. Unions predictably blame employers for their inability to move the needle on growing ...

UAW strike can help non-union auto workers in the South - NPR

While Southern workers could see their wages rise with a UAW win, the North-South tug of war over wages goes both ways. The smaller paycheck in ...