United Automobile Workers

In a significant setback for organized labor’s Southern strategy, workers at two Mercedes-Benz factories in Alabama have voted against unionization, dealing a blow to the United Automobile Workers (UAW) campaign to expand its influence in the region. What Happened: On Friday, workers at the...

General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) said it will negotiate with the United Automobile Workers — and the UAW only — this fall to decide the fate of the recently shuttered Lordstown, Ohio, plant. But some stakeholders are growing impatient. “Why wait, start them now!”...

Exactly 80 years ago this week, the end of the Flint, Michigan sit-down strike marked the effective beginning of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) as one of the largest, most powerful labor unions in the country. The UAW formed way back in 1935, but the union picked General Motors Company (NYSE:...