Latest United Auto Workers News
Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares steps down as carmaker continues struggle with slumping sales
NEW YORK (AP) — Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares is stepping down after nearly four years in the top spot of the automaker, which owns car brands like Jeep, Citroën and Ram, amid an ongoing struggle with slumping sales. The world’s fourth-largest carmaker announced that its board...
Workers at Kentucky electric vehicle battery production complex start drive to unionize
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Workers hired for a sprawling electric vehicle battery production complex in Kentucky have launched a campaign to join the United Auto Workers as the union tries to expand its foothold in the South and among battery factories, the UAW said Wednesday. The...
About 1,100 workers at Toledo, Ohio, Jeep plant face layoffs as company tries to reduce inventory
DETROIT (AP) — About 1,100 workers at the Stellantis Jeep factory in Toledo, Ohio, are facing layoffs early next year as the company takes further steps to cut high inventory at dealerships. Stellantis said Thursday that the Toledo South plant, which makes the Jeep Gladiator...
Elon Musk wins court victory in a dispute over a 2018 post during a labor dispute
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal agency was wrong to order that Tesla CEO Elon Musk delete a 2018 social media post that union leaders saw as a threat to employee stock options, a sharply divided federal appeals court has ruled. The case involved a post made on what was then known as...
Unions face a moment of truth in Michigan in this year's presidential race
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris rallies in Michigan’s union halls, standing alongside the state’s most powerful labor leader, while former President Donald Trump fires back from rural steel factories, urging middle-class workers to trust him as the true champion of...
