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Autoworkers drop appeal of election loss at Chattanooga VW plant

April 21, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Union President Bob King says, they will concentrate on a probe by congressional Democrats of political interference that led to the Valentine's Day defeat.

Right wing legal schemes may enmesh UAW Volkswagen rerun vote case

March 14, 2014 By PAI

The tangle over UAW's loss at Chattanooga is important to workers nationwide because this union recognition election saw massive anti-union intervention by outside-funded right wing groups.

Autoworkers president identifies the real “enemy”

January 16, 2014 By Jackie Tortora

The social compact is gone, said UAW president Bob King, yesterday in Detroit. "And if we want a growing middle class again, we need to restore it."

Remembering Mandela in Detroit: You are my friends and comrades

December 6, 2013 By Armando Ramirez And April Smith

When Nelson Mandela was in Detroit a special rally was held - not in a fancy ballroom or millionaire's home - but at the Ford Rouge auto plant with autoworkers.

South African unionists in Mississippi fighting for Nissan workers

October 18, 2013 By John Wojcik

JACKSON, Miss - In a stunning reversal of what many would think is the way things work, a support group from "third world" South Africa is in Mississippi this week helping Americans secure one of their...