Local auto suppliers will hire hundreds of people in mid-Michigan in the coming weeks as they prepare to support a third shift at a General Motors Co.

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Growing up in Michigan in the heyday of the United Auto Workers, I long assumed that labor unions were part of the natural order of things.

Madness is making the same mistakes a politician made 50 years ago and expecting the SAME results - Mad Max Independent Supply-Side ideologue The Prez's comrade CZAR has spoken... Plan: Save GM - Give it to the UAW. Then threaten Toyota for using a ...

The thoughts below were written three years and one month ago. No one cared about my ideas.

Republican elected officials have become, almost uniformly, vicious enemies of unions in particular and working people in general. This was witnessed during Senate debate over the auto bailouts in late 2008, when GOP Southern senators excoriated the ...

The City of Moline and the Moline Library Board of Trustees have announced that a wage concession agreement for cost-saving measures has been reached with the UAW Local 2282 Amalgamated. In a Letter of Understanding signed by the parties, the UAW ...

Growing up in Michigan in the heyday of the United Auto Workers, I long assumed that labor unions were part of the natural order of things.

The wage concessions will save the City of Moline $45,000 over a 20 month period, including a permanent savings of nearly $6,000. The UAW, the Library Board of Trustees and the City worked together to assist in balancing the 2010 and 2011 fiscal year ...

Because illegals and minorities would rather have freebies. This is what it all boils down to.

Are the Obama administration and Rust Belt members of Congress taking political advantage of Toyota to bolster the fortunes of Detroit automakers? Given how Toyota has had to stop selling eight models, including the mega-popular Camry and Corolla ...

LANSING - The Office of the State Employer and a union representing 2,000 state employees have reached a tentative agreement on concessions.

MOLINE-- The city and UAW Local 2282, which represents 23 employees at the Moline Public Library, have agreed to wage concessions to save the city $45,000 in a 20-month period. In a Letter of Understanding signed by the parties, the local agreed its ...

Roughly 3,900 United Auto Workers are laid off this week with Kentucky Truck Plant production suspended so the plant can be prepared for assembly of 2011 F-Series Super Duty trucks, UAW Vice President Todd Dunn said.

ONTARIO, Ohio -- The GM assembly plant in the small town of Ontario, near Mansfield, will close in June. But the final parts are rolling off the line now. For parts inspector Andrea Flewelling, the last day of production at the plant is surreal. She ...

More than 120 Lear Corporation employees will keep their jobs. But those jobs will no longer be in Fenton.

SPRING HILL ? Plans for the Spring Hill YMCA to lease a portion of the United Auto Workers Local 1853 Hall have been scrapped. For months officials with the YMCA of Middle Tennessee had discussed leasing a portion of the UAW Hall, and Mayor Michael ...

Law360, New York (February 05, 2010) -- A suit by Chrysler assembly plant retirees alleging the United Auto Workers union caused them to lose out on a $70,000 voluntary retirement package was tossed by a district court that lacked jurisdiction to do ...

Feb. 7, 2010 7:58 a.m. On November 4, 2008, a majority of American people put Barack H. Obama and the Democrats in power - in the House, Senate, and Oval Office.

Anger among workers at the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) plant in Fremont, California, toward the United Auto Workers (UAW) exploded at a January 24 meeting discussing the imminent closure of the facility. Nearly 5,000 workers will lose ...

Enough is enough. Post-docs, complaining of low pay while conducting vital research, are rising up in university towns across the state.

A local union is sending out a message: Come on over and get some help. UAW Local 913 will host a series of free workshops for laid-off union members and their families, designed to help them figure out how to get services and get back on their feet ...

David J. Kain, 49, of Saginaw, poses in front of Viper Communications at 824 Gratiot Ave in Saginaw.

A local union is sending out a message: Come on over and get some help. UAW Local 913 will host a series of free workshops for laid-off union members and their families, designed to help them figure out how to get services and get back on their feet ...

Donald J. Petro is retiring from the UAW after being a representative for more than 30 years.

The Saginaw News Donald J. Petro is retiring from the UAW after being a representative for more than 30 years. Petro negotiated contracts for thousands of workers. Pondering his 30-year United Auto Workers career, Donald J. Petro can tell you the who ...

WILMINGTON -- More than one in every four people in Delaware received food from a charity pantry last year, a new survey found.

Anger among workers at the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) plant in Fremont, California, toward the United Auto Workers (UAW) exploded at a January 24 meeting discussing the imminent closure of the facility. Nearly 5,000 workers will lose ...

The UAW and the Teamsters union protested outside the Japanese Embassy in Washington today calling on Toyota to reverse decisions to close a California plant and hire nonunion carhaulers. Roughly 100 supporters gathered as UAW Vice President Bob King ...

A 300-pound spot welding machine fell on Dennis Cheek at the old Buick City plant, breaking his neck.

Growing up in Michigan in the heyday of the United Auto Workers, I long assumed that labor unions were part of the natural order of things. That's no longer clear. Last month the Labor Department reported that private-sector unions lost 834,000 ...

Gladys Mohler, 84, of Eaton Rapids, passed away in Lansing, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010.

A local union is sending out a message: Come on over and get some help. UAW Local 913 will host a series of free workshops for laid-off union members and their families, designed to help them figure out how to get services and get back on their feet ...

Steve Williams Jr., 65, died at 11:50 a.m. Feb. 4, 2010, at Lima Memorial Health System.

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Saturday night rallied members of United Auto Workers Local 72 to continue the fight to save their jobs. As the featured speaker at the 30th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. program, Jackson demanded a level field for fair ...

Growing up in Michigan in the heyday of the United Auto Workers, I long assumed that labor unions were part of the natural order of things.

DELTA TOWNSHIP - Local auto suppliers will hire hundreds of people in mid-Michigan in the coming weeks as they prepare to support a third shift at a General Motors Co. assembly plant in Delta Township. The additional workers - at least 450 - are ...

Federal regulators and Congress have savaged Toyota in the last few days over the Japanese automaker's mishandling of its growing safety-recall problems.

Roughly 3,900 United Auto Workers are laid off this week with Kentucky Truck Plant production suspended so the plant can be prepared for assembly of 2011 F-Series Super Duty trucks, UAW Vice President Todd Dunn said. The down week was planned, Ford ...

Bill Glembocki looked around as he worked at the Chrysler Kenosha Engine Plant and couldn't make sense of the economics.