We Pause Now for a Political Announcement…
Frank Williams opines about the presidential candidates' ignoring some automakers with their campaign stops.
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Hargrove's Hard Line
CAW president Buzz Hargrove still insists they'll give no concessions in contract talks.
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Chrysler Ready to Grab Plastech Toolings and Run
Chrysler is at the ready to grab the toolings from Plastech and relocate them
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Plastech Bankruptcy: Chrysler's Side of the Story
Plastech has been struggling for some time, and parts quality wasn't great.
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Toyota Hearts Canada
Toyota has no qualms about investing money in Canadian production even though the operating costs are high
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A Worker at Chrysler's Downed Belvidere Plant Emails TTAC
Belvidere has been down since early Wednesday morning due to a broken gear in a press in stamping area. Trucks came and removed the dies and such to other Ch…
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Delphi Bankruptcy Recovery Plan Hits a "Snag"
Delphi doesn't have the money to exit bankruptcy and may have to come up with a new plan
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GM: It's Canada's Fault
$300m of GM's record losses last year were due to the increased value of the Canadian loonie vs the U.S. dollar
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CAW Boss Buzz Hargrove: Ban Imported Cars
Canadian Auto Workers president Buzz Hargrove wants imported cars banned in the U.S. and Canada to keep the domestic auto makers from going under.
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Ford Asks Its Workers to Leave
Ford loses $2.7b in the fourth financial quarter, tries to shuck its high paid labor.
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Buzz Readies the Rhetoric
CAW leader Buzz Hargrove amps-up the rhetoric for upcoming contract negotiations.
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I Am The UAW, Goo Goo G' Joob
If giving away the farm at this year's contract negotiations wasn't enough to convince you the UAW is getting soft in its old age, the Detroit News reports t…
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GM's Unions Become Strange Bedfellows
U.S. automakers seeking contract concessions from their domestic union workers often play one plant against the other, threatening to shift work from recalci…
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Ford Workers Wake-Up and Smell the VEBA
Although 79 percent of Ford's UAW workers approved their new contract, it now appears that not all these yea sayers didn't understood what they were voting f…
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UAW Boss Stops Making Sense
Now that the dust has settled on the United Auto Workers (UAW) contract negotiations with Chrysler, UAW boss Ron Gettelfinger is finally speaking out about t…
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Cost of Canadian Cars Goes Loonie
Canadian Auto Workers' president Buzz Hargrove has publicly declared "no concessions" re: next summer's contract with the U.S. automakers. He may want to sof…
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Wall Street Smells UAW VEBA Blood in the Water
Because health care VEBAs normally contains less than $1b in assets, they're usually nothing more than a sideline for sleepy old pension fund managers. But,…
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UAW Supports Deer Hunters, Forgets Veterans
Now that we've clocked the United Auto Workers (UAW) new contracts with The Big 2.8– including lootable union-controlled VEBA health care superfunds, w…
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Ford's UAW Workers: Not Stupid, Not Sheep
If you want to get the full flavor of dissent at the sharp end of the Ford contract approval process, visit The World Socialist Website. While we'd like to…
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Did Detroit Kick A Sleeping Giant?
BusinessWeek's Ed Wallace thinks U.S. automakers– both indigenous and transplanted– better watch out for the UAW. While GM and Chrysler are danc…
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Mulally: Failure is an Option
Alan Mulally has publicly admitted the possibility that his employer may– indeed might— go belly-up. Automotive News reports today that they aske…
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CAW's Hargrove To Detroit: Piss Off You Back-Stabbing Bastards
I'm paraphrasing. In fact, Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union president Buzz Hargrove told Autoweek he'll play hardball when it's his union's turn to talk c…
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GM Tiers the UAW's Playhouse Down
As common sense suggests, GM's new "two-tier" contract with the United Auto Workers (UAW) works best (at least for the automaker) if the majority of their em…
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CAW's Hargrove Not Impressed With UAW Contracts
Even though he says he's not surprised by the outcome, Canadian Auto Workers union (CAW) president Buzz Hargrove is disappointed with the contract agreement…
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Wagoner: UAW Contract Means More Green
Speaking to Automotive News , GM CEO Rick Wagoner promised his employer will plow the money saved by its new contract with the United Auto Workers (UAW) int…
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UAW Ratifies Chrysler Contract
Much to the dismay of the Soldiers of Solidarity and World Socialist Web Site, the United Auto Workers (UAW) rank and file were railroaded into narrowly ap…
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UAW Deal To Cause End Of Civilization
The apocalypse is at hand, at least according to the World Socialist Web Site. Apparently, after the United Auto Workers (UAW) ratify their contract with Chr…
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Guarding the Henhouse, UAW Style
Does the UAW have its own version of a hanging chad? After telling TTAC they weren't concerned about union votes being reported in percentages rather than ab…
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Senate Helps Clear the Way for VEBA Looting
The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. Senate voted yesterday to cut $2m from the Office of Labor Management Standards' (OLMS) budget. That's the fed…
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UAW's Secret Deal With Chrysler
Even as Chrysler workers consider rejecting the contract their union is shoving down their throats negotiated on their behalf, reports of a secret deal bet…
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Nation Writer: American South Needs UAW STAT
"Oh, the poor unions!" says Max Fraser, a "2006 Intern" now scribing full time at The Nation. The budding curmudgeon supposes that The Big 2.8 will be the de…
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UAW Health Care VEBA: A Cautionary Tale
We've been highlighting the dangers of placing the United Auto Workers (UAW) members' multi-billion dollar health care provision into the hands of union boss…
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Chrysler Workers: UAW Contract Blows
“This contract is garbage. It’s a suicide pact. It lowers pay and continues to let the company outsource work. I’m not losing too much beca…
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UAW Chrysler Contract Heading Down the Tubes
"At one point, Aaron Taylor, a top regional UAW representative, took to a loudspeaker system. 'Don't listen to these outsiders!' Taylor yelled at employees o…
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TTAC Scores UAW Letter to Chrysler's Local Leaders
In the blog concerning the United Auto Workers' (UAW) efforts to force encourage their Locals leaders to sign the new, proposed contract with Chrysler, we…
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UAW Lobbying Locals To Support Chrysler Contract
I love the smell of desperation in the morning. Even as workers at the St. Louis plant decided Chrysler couldn't Ram a new contract down their throats, UAW o…
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Hell Mo, We Won't Go: Chrysler Workers Reject New Contract
God knows how the United Auto Workers' leadership thought they could strip the already contentious GM contract of its job guarantees and sell it to 45k Chrys…
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Magna Prepares to Buy Chrysler
When Cerberus liberated Chrysler from its German captors, we speculated on the role parts maker Magna would play in the ailing automaker's future. At the tim…
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GM Stock: Sell!
After the United Auto Workers (UAW) ratified their new contract with GM, the automaker's stock price soared to $40.06 per share. The Detroit Free Press now r…
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Poletown's Second Shift Gets The Shaft
Just a few weeks after making a deal with the UAW to guarantee work at specific plants, GM is cutting one shift and laying off 767 workers at their Poletown…
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UAW Deal Saves GM $2.8 – $3.3b Per Year… In 2010
Even as Chrysler workers ponder whether or not to accept their new contract, GM is bragging about announcing the blessings the union has bestowed on the au…
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UAW Leaders Fall Into Line on Chrysler Contract. Mostly.
The Detroit News reports that the United Auto Workers' (UAW) local officials have accepted the tentative contract agreement with Chrysler. Despite the vote,…
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Chrysler – UAW Pact In Trouble?
When the United Auto Workers (UAW) concluded their strike against GM in two days, plenty of people reckoned the industrial action was designed to put the fea…
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Here We Go Again: Chrysler Workers On Strike
MSNBC reports that the United Auto Workers (UAW) have just walked out on Chrysler. Given that the UAW strike over at GM lasted the smaller part of two days…
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Time for a VEBA Death Watch?
Showing a Farago-like faith in GM's future, a current GM employee and retiree have challenged the use of a $4.4b "convertible note" as part payment for the V…
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New UAW Contract Downgrades Members' Health Coverage
Under the new UAW-GM contract, workers' health care will be funded by large-scale investments in Japanese automakers and their suppliers. Just kidding (I thi…
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Solidarity? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Solidarity!
Soldiers of Solidarity isn't the only organization opposed to the new UAW/GM contract. A writer for the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) was "assaulted and p…
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UAW Members Are Going to Ratify This?
According to Bloomberg, the new UAW agreement could shift one fourth of GM's union workers into lower-paying jobs over the next four years. Under the new con…
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UAW and GM: Strange Bedfellows
If the UAW ratifies the new GM contract and agrees to the VEBA, they could end up as GM's biggest shareholder. Based on information about the VEBA provided b…
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Tough Talk From The CAW
Members of the Canadian Auto Workers union (CAW) may be caught between the proverbial rock and hard place when their contract comes up for renewal next year.…
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