Robots Are Looking Better to Detroit as Labor Costs Rise
Automakers are looking to an old friend to help offset rising labor costs: robots.For decades, car companies have increased automation...
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The UAW’s Next Challenge: Getting Workers to Vote Yes
United Auto Workers leaders bargained for months and called a historic strike before clinching tentative agreements with Detroit’s automakers. Now,...
Detroit Is Paying Up to End the UAW Strike. Now Carmakers Will Live With the Costs.
Updated Oct. 30, 2023 12:50 pm ETThe United Auto Workers campaign against Detroit’s three automakers can be described as one...
Canadian Auto Workers Reach Deal With Stellantis After Brief Strike
Updated Oct. 30, 2023 9:20 am ETTORONTO—Canadian auto workers reached a tentative deal with Stellantis after a brief strike kicked...
UAW Strike Expansion With GM Shows Union Strategy: Surprise and Misdirection
Updated Oct. 29, 2023 5:46 pm ETThe decision by the United Auto Workers on Saturday to call a fresh strike...
GM Scales Back EV Plans as Buyers Hesitate
Updated Oct. 24, 2023 12:28 pm ETGeneral Motors is abandoning a self-imposed target to build 400,000 electric vehicles by mid-2024,...
UAW Strikes Spare Automakers From Financial Pain—for Now
The union’s pop-up walkouts at selected sites are designed to keep workers energized and companies off-balance. Source link
UAW Expands Strike to GM Plant in Michigan, Ford Factory in Chicago
Union President Shawn Fain cited a lack of progress at the bargaining table as walkouts enter their third week. Source...
UAW Strike Collides With Biden’s Manufacturing Agenda
The administration is caught between support for unions and the need to make U.S. auto industry more competitive. Source link
Talks Resume in Detroit Amid Threat of Expanding Strike
Wages remain focal point, and investors already are sizing up the potential hits to the automakers’ bottom lines. Source link
Whatever the UAW Strike Outcome, Elon Musk Has Already Won
The Detroit automakers entered labor talks at a cost disadvantage to Tesla. Source link
UAW Goes on Strike Against GM, Ford and Stellantis
The walkouts are the first to hit all three automakers at the same time and affect factories in Missouri, Ohio...
UAW, Automakers Remain ‘Far Apart’ in Contract Talks, Union President Says
The union’s president said the United Auto Workers are preparing walkouts at select factories when contracts expire late Thursday. Source...
In Detroit, UAW’s Strike Threat Overshadows a Shrunken Auto Show
The annual car event, which has had a choppy run recently, comes amid intensifying contract talks between automakers and workers....
Auto Sales Defy Gloomy Forecasts
The U.S. auto industry is expected to have notched a 12%-to-14% rise in new vehicle sales for the first half...
UAW Members Elect Reform Candidate as President
Shawn Fain will take charge of the union ahead of contract talks with Detroit auto makers set to begin this...
Jeep Maker Stellantis to Hand $4.5 Billion to Shareholders
Stellantis is planning to distribute $4.47 billion in dividends to shareholders and buy back up to $1.60 billion worth of...
