autoworkers

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...

Report: Nissan in Mississippi is violating international labor law

October 8, 2013 By John Wojcik

The company is in violation of the standards on freedom of association, the report notes, because of Nissan's "aggressive interference" with workers attempting to exercise their fundamental right to organize a union.

UAW on verge of breakthrough in South?

October 7, 2013 By PAI

There are now so many auto workers in the South that one Southern U.S. GOP senator recently claimed his region is now the center of the U.S. auto industry.

UAW: Majority at Tennessee VW plant sign union cards

September 13, 2013 By Erik Schelzig And Tom Krisher

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A majority of workers at Volkswagen's assembly plant in Tennessee have signed cards favoring the union's representation in creating a German-style works council at the plant, a top United Auto Workers official...