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Say Hello To The November 21, 2024 Orientation Class! - 3 hours ago
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You Can Serve On The UAW Member Advisory Committee! - 2 days ago
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November Retiree Meeting: Retirees Recognized, Officer Nominations, and Dinner Plans - November 19, 2024
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Tier 2 Retirement Option Disappears - November 17, 2024
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More Billionaires = More Problems - November 17, 2024
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You Can Help a Kid This Holiday Season! - November 15, 2024
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November Union Meeting! - November 14, 2024
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Video: Why American Cars Are So EXPENSIVE… - November 14, 2024
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SAP Phase 2 Is Here! - November 13, 2024
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Tax Cuts For The Rich Create Debt, Division, and Despair - November 9, 2024
Yes, This Happened – Wish It Happened More Often
The Stand-Up Strike has been a unique approach to bargaining that has generated some unique outcomes. The most unique is the re-opening of a plant slated for closure. Many members of UAW Local 2250 have come from factories that closed and while transferring allowed folks to keep their jobs it is not as nice as earning a living without a new mortgage or rent payment, leaving friends and family, and learning to Facetime.
Members from Janesville, Doraville, Van Nuys, Oklahoma City, Lordstown, Baltimore, Warren, Shreveport and even the old St. Louis Corvette plant and others would love to look back and talk about how their plant closed but was saved in negotiations. For Chrysler/UAW members at Belvidere Assembly this video, Belvidere Deserves Better, will be a nostalgic story they show their kids and grandkids.
Another factory making mid-size pickups is not what we really wanted to experience, but this historic reversal of a plant closing and the change that will make in the lives of those UAW members and the entire community is something to celebrate.
( graphic via uaw.org)