Archive for 2012
The 3-2-120 monster

Martha Grevatt describes Chrysler's 3-2-120 process what it means operationally from the perspective of a given worker.
by Martha Grevatt
The 3-2-120 is one of three “Flexible Operating Patterns”(FOPs) in the Chrysler contract. Ford.
October 27, 2012
Free Legal Clinic for People Facing Foreclosure - UAW Local 160
If you need help keeping your house or know someone else facing possible foreclosure, here's a group that can help.UAW Local 160's Civil and Human Rights Committee in partnership with other UAW locals, Southeast Michigan Jobs with Justice and Moratorium.
October 4, 2012
Ex-GM Colombia Workers Lift Hunger Strike
Dear Friends,Thank you to all the people who have supported our struggle and who have shown it to us through your actions of help and solidarity. We respectfully wish to inform you that we have made the decision to lift our hunger strike as a show of.
September 24, 2012
Chrysler Trades Appeal Update
by Martha Grevatt & Frank Hammer
Adding Insult to Injury
The UAW International Executive Board has stalled for over ten months without replying to an international appeal filed last November by Chrysler skilled trades members. The appellants-George.
September 11, 2012
An Open Letter to President Bob King
Brother King,
We, the undersigned UAW members and retirees, are writing to
urge you to lend the immediate and full support of our union on behalf of fired
GM autoworkers currently engaged in a hunger strike at the site of the U.S.
embassy in Bogota,.
August 13, 2012
No "equality" -we make the sacrifice!
by Scott Houldieson
Did You Really Expect It Back Without A Fight?
When you give away the farm do you think the one you gave it to will just hand it back? Sorry, but that’s not the way corporate greed work.
July 29, 2012
When the time comes, let’s not forget this.

by Gary Walkowicz
It’s outrageous that the arbitrator could rule against us in the Equity of Sacrifice grievance.
In the February, 2009 contract modifications, the highlights talked about Equity of Sacrifice and referred to sacrifices by.
July 24, 2012
Greetings from UAW Local 3000
by Jeff “Spike” Brown
I work at AUTOALLIANCE PLANT (AAI) in Flat Rock, Michigan. AAI opened in 1987 as the Mazda plant. We are a joint venture between Ford Motor Company and Mazda. This will be coming to an end this August as Mazda will move production.
May 20, 2012
Colombian GM workers demand justice
Those of us who recently attended the Labor Notes conference
in Chicago met Jorge Parra, a GM worker from Columbia and president of
ASOTRECOL, was in the United States to publicize the situation at their plant.
You can find/friend them on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/groups/116719295080402/,
contact.