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      Ford workers build an electric F-150 Lightning at a factory in Dearborn, Michigan on September 8, 2022.

      UAW Holds Off on Endorsing Biden in Bid to Secure Just EV Transition

      "We need to get our members organized behind a pro-worker, pro-climate, and pro-democracy political program that can deliver for the working class," says a memo from the union's new president.

      Kenny Stancil
      May 04, 2023

      The United Auto Workers is withholding its endorsement of U.S. President Joe Biden in the early stages of the 2024 race in an attempt to extract concessions that would ensure the nascent transition to all-electric vehicles benefits labor as well as the environment.

      "We need to get our members organized behind a pro-worker, pro-climate, and pro-democracy political program that can deliver for the working class," says a memo written by UAW president Shawn Fain and shared internally on Tuesday.

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      United Auto Workers members walk the picket line at the General Motors Flint Assembly Plant after the UAW declared a national strike against GM at midnight on September 16, 2019 in Flint, Michigan.

      Change is Coming to the United Auto Workers

      Reformer Shawn Fain is poised to upset incumbent Ray Curry in the runoff election for the UAW presidency.

      Luis Feliz Leon
      Jane Slaughter
      Mar 19, 2023

      The machine will churn no more. Nearly 80 years of top-down one-party rule in the United Auto Workers are coming to an end. Reformer Shawn Fain is set to be the winner in the runoff for the UAW presidency.

      As of Thursday night, Fain had a 505-vote edge, 69,386 to 68,881, over incumbent Ray Curry of the Administration Caucus. Curry was appointed by the union's executive board in 2021. There are around 600 unresolved challenged ballots. (This story will be updated with the final vote tally when we have it.)

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      Cal Grad Student Worker Strike Ends With Deal Panned by Many Rank-and-File Union Members

      One dissenting student negotiator said the tentative agreement "does not come close to our initial demands and it leaves a lot of our co-workers still rent burdened, still impoverished."

      Brett Wilkins
      Dec 24, 2022

      While many University of California graduate student workers welcomed Friday's strike-ending ratification of a new labor agreement that delivers increased pay and benefits, other rank-and-file union members expressed anger and disappointment that the deal does not deliver enough.

      The Los Angeles Timesreports two bargaining units of United Auto Workers—which represent the 48,000 student workers—approved tentative agreements on contracts that will take effect immediately and run through the end of May 2025. The six-week strike—the largest academic employee walkout in U.S. history—will end, and most U.C. graduate workers will return to their jobs after winter break.

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