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• Statement by Tom LaSorda, Chrysler Group President and Chief Executive Officer Regarding the Start of 2007 Contract Negotiations with the UAW

  - 2007-07-20

  To: LABOR EDITORSTo: LABOR EDITORS

  Tags: Chrysler LLC, Labor, UAW

• Bush Visits UAW Facilities; Union Calls for Incentives to Build Advanced Technologies in U.S.

  - 2007-03-20

  To: LABOR EDITORSTo: LABOR EDITORS

  Tags: incentive, Labor, UAW

• AK Steel and UAW Reach Tentative Contract Agreement for Coshocton Works

  - 2007-02-16

  To: LABOR EDITORSTo: LABOR EDITORS

  Tags: agreement, Labor, UAW

• On the defensive: Walter Reuther's testimony before the McClellan labor rackets committee

  - 1999-09-22

  From January 1957 to March 1960, the United States Senate's Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, popularly known as the McClellan Committee, pursued the most extensive investigation of labor-management relations in American history. On 30 January 1957 the United States Senate authorized the select committee...

  Tags: Business, Curtis, Evidence, F., Harry, John, Kennedy, Kohler Co., L., Labor, McClellan, Robert, U.S. Senate, UAW, Walter, William

• Japanese transplants and union membership: the case of Nissan Motor Manufacturing Corporation

  - 1999-03-22

  The major purpose of the present paper is to discuss the failure of unionization efforts at the Nissan Motor Manufacturing Corporation NMMC, in Smyrna, Tennessee. First of all, we will provide brief backgrounds on several subjects: the decline of unions in the United States in general, organizational culture, Japanese management...

  Tags: General Motors Corp., job, Labor, M., Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Smyrna, Technology, U.S., UAW, worker

• Jerry Tucker.(former Auto Workers union official)(Labor's Day: The Challenge Ahead)(Cover Story)(Brief Article)

  - 1998-09-21

  Jerry Tucker is a former UAW International Union Executive Board member and a co-founder of the UAW New Directions Movement. He currently directs the New Directions Worker Education Center in St. Louis and is organizing coordinator for the UHCW, a new bottom-up healthcare workers union in...

  Tags: General Motors Corp., Globalization, Labor, Strategy, UAW, worker

• Behind the scenes, some local labor leaders battle.

  - 1997-10-27

  The AFL-CIO came to Detroit last week with the message that the labor movement cannot return to its glory days without cooperation among unions. Labor is not doing enough and is not spending enough organizing dollars, and its leaders are too busy battThe AFL-CIO came to...

  Tags: AFL-CIO, council, Labor, leader, UAW

• Testimony before the Reich/Dunlop Commission January 5, 1994 - former autoworker Elly Leary on labor-management cooperation - Transcript

  - 1994-10-01

  Hi, my name is Elly Leary. I'm a living example of the new world order of global competition.(1) I used to be an auto assembler at the General Motors plant in Framingham, Massachusetts. I worked there from 1977 to August 1989, when the plant closed and its work was shifted...

  Tags: commission, General Motors Corp., Labor, SALES, UAW, worker, workplace

• After the strike - labour relations in Oshawa, 1937-1939

  - 1993-09-22

  The 1937 Oshawa strike of General Motors GM employees was significant because it was the first major breakthrough for industrial unionism in the mass production industries in Canada. The effect of the strike on and beyond the community was also important because it changed the relationship workers had with management...

  Tags: agreement, Canada, CIO, Cohen, General Motors Corp., Labor, leader, Ontario, strike, Thompson, UAW, worker