We Can’t Accept This!

By Gary Walkowicz
Bargaining Committeeman
Dearborn Truck Plant
UAW Local 600

Ford workers made it clear that we did not want any more concessions. But the top leadership of the UAW did not listen to the membership. They didn’t do what we wanted them… Read full post »

Forget Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove or even Rick Scott. New evidence has surfaced that the anti-healthcare fanatics who are barnstorming town hall meetings across the U.S. are actually receiving their marching orders via secret messages encoded wit… Read full post »

Those familiar with Flint are familiar with the slab of cement at the intersection of Hammerberg & 12th Streets that has been a low-tech community message board for decades. Some call it the "the rock." To others it's "the block." Either way, it's seen it all: engagement announceme… Read full post »

Paramount Entertainment's new comedy The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard starring Jeremy Piven appears to be (haven't seen it but Pivens hasn't seen Saginaw) the latest in a recent string of Hollywood "comedies" that exploit the fictional stereotypes and real-world hardships of w… Read full post »

While John Engler (the former Michigan Governor best known for saving the state, then the country, from poor single mothers by strong-arming them into fast-food wage slavery) and his colleague, American Axle CEO Dick Dauch (best known for threatening to mo/… Read full post »

GM's taxpayer-funded restructuring plan is to import more vehicles built in low-wage countries and sell them in the United States.

Should U.S. tax dollars really be used "beef up" GM's foreign operations while U.S. autoworkers and communities face massive slim downs in wages, benefits and work… Read full post »

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Ever been hit on by a guy whose "game" is based solely on ridiculing others? Me too. He projects confidence. Might even have an intriguing swagger. But after a few minutes of one-sided conversation, it becomes clear that the machismo he displays has nothing to with his own character, his… Read full post »

While mainstream pundits and columnists wax philosophic about the meaning and potential of what they shorthand as the new “Populist Rage,” the world’s backchannels are ablaze with actual accounts of what is in fact victims fighting back.  

Though certainly enragin… Read full post »

1. Join the ranks of new GM hourly hires earning $14/hr., no pension, no healthcare in retirement

2. Throw his hat in the ring for Governor of Michigan

3. Attend community college to retrain as a nurse practitioner

4. Following the… Read full post »

Behind the scenes footage of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner & Chief Economic Advisor for the Obama Administration, Larry Summers, planning proposed Bank Rescue Plan:

For a long time, capital has been free to cherry-pick the globe for the cheapest and most desperate workers. Labor unions have not had nearly the same success. Not even close.

The UAW, for instance, has not even been able to follow capital into the our own country's southern states.… Read full post »

It is outrageous enough that President Obama's Chief Economic Advisor Larry Summers openly admitted to the government's double-standard approach regarding forced economic sacrifice when he said the following of AIG's contractually obligated wealth-wasting:

"We are a country of law. There are contrac… Read full post »

Leaders of the factory occupation at Chicago's Republic Windows & Doors – Bob Kingsley, UE (United Electrical union) National Director of Organizing, and Armando Robles, President UE Local 1110 – visited Detroit's IBEW Local 58 Feb. 9 as part of their 15-city 'Resistance and… Read full post »

All this speculation about what the UAW is going to give up next neglects one well documented fact: the contract. The deal went down in 2007./… Read full post »

On January 11, 2009, active and retired autoworkers, labor and community activists, and others concerned about the future of U.S. manufacturing, healthcare, the environment, the economy, and working families rallied outside Cobo Hall in Detroit during press day of the North American Intern… Read full post »

Retired and active auto workers wrote an open letter to their counterparts in non-union auto plants across the country to express solidarity and a hope that auto workers across the industry could work together to stop corporate and gover… Read full post »

UAW Activist Gregg Shotwell on Democracy NOW (link to video/transcript)

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AUTO WORKER RALLY AT THE NORTH AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW

COBO HALL, DETROIT

JANUARY 11 @ 1 PM

Join auto workers and community supporters for a rally in Hart Plaza on opening p… Read full post »

On December 8 2008, active and retired UAW members from across the U.S. traveled to Washington D.C. to put a human face on the real issues underlying the future of the domestic auto industry, manufacturing, and the American working family. The workers marched to the Rayburn… Read full post »

On December 8 2008, active and retired UAW members from across the U.S. traveled to Washington D.C. to put a human face on the real issues underlying the future of the domestic auto industry, manufacturing, and the American working family.

The workers marched, held a press conference,… Read full post »

Economist David Gordon wrote in his book Fat and Mean, “In the 1980s, by common measures, the proportion of managerial and administrative employment was more than three times as high in the United States as in Germany and Japan.” 

He also wrote that the US has a higher pe… Read full post »

By Gregg Shotwell, UAW Local 1753 (Retired)

 After the first bailout was voted down, President Bush warned that if we didn’t hand over $700 billion the House of Cards would fall and all the King’s Cronies couldn’t put it back together again. Since all the Cronies… Read full post »