UAW

There’s yet another development in the UAW automotive strike story: United Auto Workers at Mack Truck plants went on strike this week, rejecting a tentative agreement.

The United Auto Workers union has decided not to expand its strikes against Detroit’s three automakers after General Motors made a breakthrough concession on unionizing electric vehicle battery plants.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer says she has visited striking auto workers on picket lines and is urging labor and management to continue bargaining.

President Biden joined UAW workers on the picket lines. Trump holds a meeting at a non-union parts distributor. What message do these visits send and who are they for?

Seven Republicans will join the second GOP debate Wednesday but the front-runner, former President Donald Trump won't be one of them. Instead, Trump will head to Michigan to court autoworkers.

Trump will skip the second Republican presidential debate that day to travel to Detroit.

Experts in presidential and U.S. labor history say they cannot recall an instance where a sitting president has joined an ongoing strike.

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United Auto Workers members at General Motors' Willow Run Redistribution Center walked off the job at noon Friday.

UAW President Shawn Fain announced an expansion of the union's targeted strike against the Detroit automakers as negotiations continue. The new locations include 38 parts distribution centers in 20 states, but none of them are Ford facilities.