by Justin | Feb 5, 2022 | Autoworkers, Dan DiMaggio, General Motors, International Solidarity, Labor Notes, Luis Feliz Leon, Mexico
Auto workers at a General Motors plant in central Mexico delivered a landslide victory to an independent union in a vote held February 1-2. It’s a major breakthrough for workers and labor activists seeking to break the vice grip of the employer-friendly unions…
by Justin | Feb 4, 2022 | Autoworkers, General Motors, International Solidarity, Maximillian Alvarez, Mexico, Real News Network
After years of struggle, thousands of auto workers at the massive General Motors plant in Silao, Mexico, just voted overwhelmingly for a more independent and democratic union. In this interview, recorded before the union election took place, TRNN Editor-in-Chief…
by Justin | Feb 3, 2022 | Autoworkers, Detroit News, General Motors, International Solidarity, Mexico
A new and independent union won the right to represent workers at General Motors Co.’s truck plant in Mexico — a sign that new North American free trade rules are bolstering the nation’s labor rights. The union, known as SINTTIA, won the vote by a wide margin,…
by Justin | Jan 31, 2022 | Autoworkers, General Motors, International Solidarity, Jonah Furman, Mexico, Who Gets the Bird
This week will mark the potentially watershed union election at a GM plant in Silao, Mexico, as Dan DiMaggio and Luis Feliz Leon covered for Labor Notes. In the wake of domestic union democracy legislation and new labor protections under the USMCA, an independent…
by Justin | Jan 28, 2022 | Autoworkers, Dan DiMaggio, General Motors, International Solidarity, Labor Notes, Luis Feliz Leon, Mexico
Workers at a massive General Motors plant in central Mexico will vote in a landmark election next week to decide which union will represent the plant’s 6,500 workers. A victory by the independent union there would be a big step toward breaking the stranglehold of the…
by Justin | Jan 22, 2022 | AFL-CIO, Autoworkers, Detroit Free Press, General Motors, International Solidarity, Mexico
The UAW and AFL-CIO are calling on General Motors and the Mexico government to ensure upcoming union elections at a plant producing the profitable Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra are fair and free of intimidation. The UAW is asking specifically that labor…
