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The United Auto Workers union sent 6,800 Stellantis employees to the picket line Monday morning in a surprise, targeted strike at the company’s Ram truck facility. The Sterling Heights Assembly Plant is Stellantis’ “largest plant and biggest moneymaker,” UAW said in a statement Monday. The plant, about a half-hour north of Detroit, in Sterling Heights, Michigan, produces the Ram 1500 pickup. The union said the company, which makes vehicles under the Dodge, Ram, Jeep and Chrysler brands, has “the worst proposal on the table” in its negotiations on pay, converting temporary workers to full time and cost-of-living adjustments. “Despite having...

Detroit's casino workers are currently on strike after union contracts expired at all three of the city’s gambling facilities. Walkouts in Motor City began Tuesday at noon, carried out by some 3,700 casino workers across five unions. The Detroit Casino Council, the body that represents the procession, has been seeking better wages and benefits - a common theme in the US as of late as the cost of living continues to sky-rocket. Strikes, as a result, have been widespread - with nearly 34,000 autoworkers also striking in the city, and more than 160,000 Hollywood actors still seeking higher wages and...

NORFOLK — “I see him!” exclaimed 8-year-old Penelope Holbert, vigorously waving. Her father, Petty Officer 1st Class Drew Holbert waved back from a platform at the stern of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. Holbert, an aviation structural mechanic, was one of 5,000 sailors who deployed Saturday aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower — the flagship of the Ike carrier strike group. It has long been scheduled to deploy this week to the Mediterranean. [Snip] The Eisenhower is expected to be deployed for about six months. [Snip] The Virginia Beach strike fighter squadrons known as Gunslingers, Fighting Swordsmen, Rampagers and Wildcats...

The United Auto Workers (UAW) strike has expanded again with roughly 34,000 American auto workers now striking across the United States while few Americans, a poll finds, back General Motors (GM), Ford, and Stellantis in the conflict. Late Wednesday evening, 8,700 UAW members at Ford’s Kentucky truck plant in Louisville walked off the job and joined 25,300 other UAW members who have been on strike for nearly a month now. “We have been crystal clear, and we have waited long enough, but Ford has not gotten the message,” UAW President Shawn Fain said in a statement. “It’s time for a...

The United Auto Workers union launched an unexpected strike against Ford Motor at the automaker’s highly profitable SUV and pickup truck plant in Kentucky. The strike was effective at 6:30 p.m. ET Wednesday at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant, where the automaker produces Ford Super Duty pickups as well as the Ford Expedition and the Lincoln Navigator SUVs. The facility employs 8,700 UAW members. The strike at the plant — Ford’s largest in terms of employment and revenue — marks a major escalation in the UAW’s targeted, or “stand-up,” strikes. It also represents a shift in strategy now in the fourth...

Thousands of Canadian auto workers are joining the United Auto Workers (UAW) strike across the United States as American auto workers warn that they face “poverty wages” as a result of President Joe Biden’s rules to mandate electric vehicles (EVs). On Tuesday, about 4,300 Canadians at three Ontario-based General Motors (GM) plants joined the UAW strike, which is also against Ford and Stellantis. GM now faces a production issue, as the plants produce a number of vehicles, including Chevrolet Silverado trucks, one of the automaker’s most profitable. Officials with Unifor, the Canadian labor union equivalent to the UAW, accused GM...

While the teachers flaunt their “righteousness” and fancy themselves activists, the more apropos term is “useful idiots” — they are unwitting accessories to an agenda that is antithetical to everyone’s best interest, including their own. The Fresno Teachers Association, a union with around 4,000 members, is headed towards a strike, largely because the superintendent of the Fresno Unified School District, Robert Nelson, hasn’t budged on allowing school parking lots to become homeless camps; as Nelson says, the proposal isn’t within the district’s “area of expertise.” But according to the president of the union, Manuel Bonilla, it is; from a new...

Members of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals and Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West are set to launch a strike Oct. 9 at four Prime Healthcare facilities in Southern California.The unions represent about 2,400 workers at four Prime hospitals: St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood, Centinela Hospital Medical Center in Inglewood, Garden Grove Hospital and Medical Center, and Encino Hospital Medical Center, according to union statements shared with Becker's. Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare operates 45 hospitals and more than 300 outpatient locations in 14 states.Members of both unions, which include registered nurses, licensed vocational...

Kaiser Permanente employees launched a three-day strike Wednesday morning at facilities across the country. Roughly 75,000 employees were expected to hit the picket lines across the U.S. for the next three days. In Northern California, more than 37,000 workers were slated to walk off the job, upset over wages and a lack of staffing. The union claims its poll found two-thirds of workers have seen care delayed or denied due to short staffing. Kaiser has disputed those results. "We are overwhelmed," medical assistant Damaris Reyes said. "I don’t think that we can go any longer with what Kaiser is offering...

Donald Trump slammed Joe Biden on Tuesday, saying that the UAW strike, which has seen workers halt production and parts distribution at dozens of factories across the midwest, is a result of his electric vehicle policies and requirements. Trump will be visiting workers on the picket line on Wednesday. "Joe Biden's draconian and indefensible Electric Vehicle mandate will annihilate the U.S. auto industry," Trump said, "and cost countless thousands of autoworkers their jobs. The only thing Biden could say today that would help the striking autoworkers is to announce the immediate termination of his ridiculous mandate." "Anything else is...

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Joe Biden on Tuesday arrived at Wayne County, Michigan to join striking autoworkers on the picket line. 80-year-old Joe Biden almost fell down the stairs as he exited Air Force One shortly after a report revealed there is a secret mission to prevent Joe Biden from falling down. WATCH: BREAKING: Joe Biden almost falls down the stairs hours after Axios publishes the piece “Biden team’s don’t-let-him-trip mission” pic.twitter.com/f4hbeoFSGR — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 26, 2023 Biden wandered around like a doddering old man on the picket line. He’s completely clueless. Joe Biden has no idea what’s going on. WATCH: “Mr....

The writers guild has reached a tentative agreement, which means that there will be new episodes and shows soonesh, if the agreement is ratified. We've had a bit of a vacation for all the social engineering propaganda, but more than likely it will be starting up again. What do you think? Have you enjoyed your vacation?

President Biden announced that he will “join the picket line” with members of the United Auto Workers union next week in solidarity with their demands for higher pay and a shorter work week from Detroit’s “Big Three” automakers. “Tuesday, I’ll go to Michigan to join the picket line and stand in solidarity with the men and women of UAW as they fight for a fair share of the value they helped create,” Biden, 80, tweeted on Friday. “It’s time for a win-win agreement that keeps American auto manufacturing thriving with well-paid UAW jobs.” The president’s announcement comes after UAW President...

President Joe Biden belatedly announced plans to visit the striking United Auto Workers (UAW) union members in Michigan on Tuesday, just one day before former President Donald Trump is set to visit them. “Tuesday, I’ll go to Michigan to join the picket line and stand in solidarity with the men and women of UAW as they fight for a fair share of the value they helped create,” Biden posted online.

The United Auto Workers (UAW) will expand its strike Friday afternoon, with employees walking off the job at General Motors and Stellantis parts distribution facilities, union President Shawn Fain announced. Fain, in livestreamed remarks, said workers have made progress in negotiations with Ford since a targeted strike began at the Big Three auto companies last week. “At GM and Stellantis, it’s a different story,” Fain said. The union is expanding the strike Friday to include Stellantis and GM facilities at 38 locations across 28 states, he said. “We will shut down parts distribution until those two companies come to their...

General Motors has temporarily laid off most of the approximately 2,000 unionized workers at its Fairfax assembly plant in Kansas as a result of the ongoing UAW strikes. The move, which GM had warned was coming last week, is the largest ripple effect so far from the United Auto Workers' historic strike against all three Detroit automakers as the union demands a new contract that offers substantially better wages and benefits. But automakers have warned a strike threatens to make them uncompetitive against rivals, especially as the companies spend billions of dollars to transition to electric vehicles.

Former President Donald Trump’s plan to visit United Auto Workers (UAW) members who are striking in Detroit, Michigan, is causing some Democrats close to the White House to freak out and think that the Biden campaign needs to “step up,” according to a Politico report. Trump is expected to skip the second GOP Presidential debate on Sept. 27, instead planning to speak with current and former UAW members in Detroit. The move has caused Democrats close to the White House to worry that the former president’s 2024 campaign strategy may be more sophisticated than in the past, according to a...

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., joined the picket line in support of striking auto workers in Michigan on Monday. Fetterman said he drove his late-model Ford Bronco from Braddock, Pennsylvania, to Wayne, Michigan, where it was built, to walk the picket line with the United Auto Workers (UAW). “I always stand for the union way of life,” Fetterman said. “I live across the street, you know, from a steel mill and the steel workers, you know, and I came from Pittsburgh. It’s a union town as well and I always stand for the union.”