LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Top Stories: UAW to do targeted strikes? Stellantis stuiggles with absenteeism; Hormel workers voting on 'final' offer; A businessman wants economic pain; Unions spent $1.7B on mid-terms & more...
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[72 total articles today; nearly 23,800 articles posted since January 2022]
UAW may opt to strike targeted auto plants if no deal reached
The United Auto Workers union may opt to strike targeted auto plants if they fail to reach new contracts with the Detroit Three automakers before a Thursday night deadline, sources told Reuters on Tuesday. Read more…
Absentee rate at Stellantis plants was 23% last year...
Shawn Fain, the president of the United Auto Workers, and Carlos Tavares, CEO of Jeep maker Stellantis NV, agree on at least one thing: The auto giant has a hard time getting some US factory workers to show up for their shifts. Read more…
Union workers at Hormel Foods who make SPAM to vote on 'final' contract offer
The union representing about 1,700 meatpacking workers at the Hormel Foods plant in Austin, Minn., says they’ll vote this week on a contract proposal it’s calling a “final offer” from the company. Read more…
WATCH: Real estate mogul Tim Gurner tells audience “we need to see pain in the economy.”
“We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around.” Watch…
REPORT: Unions spent more than $1.7 billion during 2022 elections
More than $1.7 billion was spent by unions during the 2022 election cycle, some of it from the same type of "dark money" PAC's that are usually decried by left-leaning union leadership. Read more…