Read Labor Notes!
Email updates
RSS Feeds
| Magazine Stories |  |
| Steward's Corner | |
| Solidarity Network | |
An Auto Bailout?
Latest News - Auto Workers Call for Rally at Auto Show Jan 11
December 9 - Auto Worker Caravan Shakes up Capitol Hill
December 4 - Detroit News Editorial - Cutting Auto Wages Won't Solve Big 3 Crisis.
November 21 - Abandoning autoworkers and their communities is not the answer.
November 13 - Listen to Mark Brenner on AM talk radio, Portland's KPOJ, discussing the auto industry bailout.
November 12 - Labor Notes' Mark Brenner tackles the auto industry bailout on Democracy Now!
Song of the Month
Los Lobos, Santa Isabel Children's Choir
De Colores
 Auto Workers Told to Take Concessions, Abandon Retirees— Tiffany Ten Eyck President George Bush announced a $17.4 billion dollar bridge loan for General Motors and Chrysler. The Bush administration's requirements mirror demands from anti-union Republicans who torpedoed Congressional action last week. The plan hinges on demands that UAW wages and work rules are slashed, and that auto retirees sink half of their retiree health care fund into company stock. Chicago Sitdown Strike Produces Win for Workers, Not Banks— Jerry Mead-Lucero Faced with Concession Demands, Unions Search for Ways to Resist— Mischa Gaus, Mark Brenner Financial Crisis Shouldered by City Workers— Paul Abowd D.C. Teachers Resist District’s ‘Slash-and-Burn’ Style— Candi Peterson Smithfield Wins a Union after 16-Year Struggle— Nichele Fulmore, Mischa Gaus New York’s Transit Local Recovers Dues Check-off, Accepts Strike Prohibition— Steve Downs |
Steward's CornerUnderstanding and Defending Past Practices— David Cohen Stewards need to know what a valid past practice is and what the past practices in their workplace are—to defend them from erosion by management. A past practice is any longstanding, frequent practice that is accepted and known by both union and management. . . . |