by Joseph Szczesny | Feb 25, 2020
The Center for Automotive Research estimates that General Motors’ 83,860 direct U.S. employees support another 681,000 jobs throughout the U.S. economy. The CAR study noted that of those jobs supported by the auto company, 207,420 jobs are at companies that feed parts...
by Joseph Szczesny | Feb 19, 2020
A federal judge sentenced a former United Auto Workers official to 28 months in prison and approved an order calling for him to forfeit $1.5 million, which he obtained by conspiring to take kickbacks from vendors selling merchandise to joint programs operated by the...
by Joseph Szczesny | Feb 19, 2020
Efforts by reformers in the United Auto Workers to force the union to call a special convention next month to consider changes to the union constitution, including requiring direct election of top union officers, have failed. The push began last fall on the heels of...
by Michael Strong | Feb 17, 2020
This story has been updated with new information. Former United Auto Workers President Owen Bieber died Monday. Bieber, who was the second-longest serving president, was 90. Bieber, whose passing was announced by the union, was the UAW’s seventh president and led the...
by Joseph Szczesny | Feb 14, 2020
United Auto Workers officials in Flint, Michigan, representing workers at the General Motors truck assembly plant in Flint, Michigan, have taken to social media to warn of potential parts shortages at the General Motors truck assembly plant created by the medical...
by Joseph Szczesny | Feb 12, 2020
Detroit’s urban distress has captured the attention of both homegrown artists and creatives from other parts of the world attracted multiple narratives of strife, decay and regeneration. Now the City of Detroit at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. hope to use FCA’s new,...
by Joseph Szczesny | Feb 7, 2020
Another top officer of the United Auto pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Detroit to federal criminal charges. Vance Pearson, a former UAW director and a former member of the UAW’s International Executive Board, pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring with other...
by Michael Strong | Feb 5, 2020
UAW hourly workers at two of the three Detroit-area automakers now know what kind of profit-sharing checks they’ll be getting since General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. announced their annual earnings results. GM will pay its nearly 44,000 eligible hourly United Auto...
by Michael Strong | Feb 5, 2020
General Motors Corp. paid a price to get the new four-year contract it wanted with the UAW — $2.6 billion. That loss during the fourth quarter was the difference between the financial results for 2019 and 2018. The auto giant posted a full-year profit of $6.7 billion,...
by Michael Strong | Jan 31, 2020
The UAW continued its separation from its recent dark past by beginning the process of expelling eight former executives from the union. Subject the union’s Article 31 charges, the former executives were caught up in the federal government’s criminal investigation of...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jan 31, 2020
The new trade agreement with Mexico and Canada will bring as many as 80,000 new manufacturing jobs to the United States because new rules of origin will require more companies to build cars and parts in the United States, President Donald Trump said during an...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jan 30, 2020
This story has been updated with new information. It’s been the worst-kept secret in Detroit but now, General Motors is not only confirming the debut of the Hummer pickup during the upcoming Super Bowl but filling in some key details. And the numbers are likely to...
