Mark Silverman is the Editor of the Tennessean. But in a previous career, he was a newspaper reporter in Michigan covering the Big Three, the UAW and their interaction with the politicians in Michigan. Recently, GM demanded that states pay…
Saul Anuzi gives a short history lesson about the brutal history of big labor in Michigan: The reason that the great American tradition of making cars in my home state has now gone belly up is due in large part to…
The Obama Administration’s take-over of General Motors contains a host of concessions to the UAW designed to keep the union bosses happy at the expense of the American public: There’s also the labor agreement that the UAW approved last week,…
David Keene looks at the effort by the Obama Administration to hand control of the Chrysler car company to the UAW and concludes its nothing more than theft and graft.
The insightful Tim Carney of the Washington Examiner looks at the business side of big labor in his recent column. It’s clear that in many cases big labor is becoming synonymous with big business: Imagine if President George W. Bush used strong-arm tactics to…
The new majority owner of the Chrysler company is none other than the United Automobile Workers union. And thanks to the Obama Administration, the UAW has a chance to GROW its influence in the Motor City by negotiating from both sides of the table.
The boss of the UAW union has predicted that there will be no wage cuts associated with efforts to reform the American automobile industry. Why? According to Ron Gettelfinger, it is because workers at non-unionized Toyota plants make $2 more…
With some Democrats and liberal pundits proclaiming that forced unionism at automobile plants in Right to Work states is the solution to what ails the American car industry, it’s critical to understand just how the United Auto Workers’ monopoly union…
Larry Kudlow, of CNBC fame, thinks the United Auto Workers (UAW) union is driving the US auto industry into the ground.