Security gate in front of the Tesla Motors Gigafactory site east of Reno, Nevada. David Calvert | The Washington Post | Getty Images Tesla has informed workers at its Sparks, Nevada, battery factory that some hourly wage workers there will receive pay increases of about 10% starting in early January 2024. According to internal materials … [Read more…]
Erin Heffernan, Jacob Barker ST. LOUIS — A nursing home in north St. Louis suddenly closed Friday evening, forcing about 170 residents to be relocated via shuttle bus and leaving more than 100 workers unpaid, union officials said. The last resident was moved before dawn on Saturday. Family members and friends gathered at the Northview … [Read more…]
General Motors is laying off 1,314 workers at manufacturing plants in Michigan, months after reaching a new labor contract with the United Auto Workers (UAW). The announcement was made Thursday (Dec. 14) and Local 4 was told 945 people will be employed at the automaker’s Orion Assembly Subsystems Plant in Orion Township. Officials say the … [Read more…]
Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, left, speaks next to Christian Smalls, founder of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), during an ALU rally in the New York City borough of Staten Island, U.S., Sunday, April 24, 2022. Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images A National Labor Relations Board judge ruled that Amazon … [Read more…]
After FTQ President Magali Picard’s controversial express return trip to COP28, in the middle of the strike, The newspaper noted that delegations from the Quebec Workers’ Fund and the Union of Quebec Municipalities (UMQ) will also travel to COP28 in Dubai. A total of three Fondaction executives will travel to COP28 in economy class. CEO … [Read more…]
United Auto Workers members at Ford Motor have ratified a new labor contract. A majority of Ford plants overwhelmingly approved the deal, which, like the one with GM and Stellantis, calls for wage increases of at least 25%. The contract ratifications come weeks after the automakers and the union reached tentative agreements, ending about six … [Read more…]
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY – OCTOBER 14: Factory workers and UAW union members form a picket line outside the Ford Motor Co. Kentucky Truck Plant in the early morning hours of October 14, 2023 in Louisville, Kentucky. UAW leadership announced that the Kentucky Truck Plant would become the latest automaker to join the nationwide strike. (Photo by … [Read more…]