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UAW Commits $40M To Organize Non-Union Auto Workers Through 2026

The United Auto Workers (UAW) labor union has announced a commitment of $40 million to support new organizing efforts among non-union autoworkers and battery workers through the 2026 timeframe. The UAW states that workers are now organizing across the country, in particular in the South, and that tens of thousands of autoworkers are poised to unionize. The union recently secured record contracts with the Big Three Detroit automakers, including General Motors.

A UAW member holding a sign.

“The UAW International Executive Board voted Tuesday to commit the funds in response to an explosion in organizing activity among non-union auto and battery workers, in order to meet the moment and grow the labor movement,” the union recently posted to its website.

The union states that the industry-wide transition to all-electric powertrains is set to add tens of thousands of new jobs across the country, providing an opportunity to set “new standards” among workers.

“These jobs will supplement, and in some cases largely replace, existing powertrain jobs in the auto industry,” the union says. “Through a massive new organizing effort, workers will fight to maintain and raise the standard in the emerging battery industry.”

The union points to organizing efforts at several non-union auto plants, including Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee; Hyundai workers in Montgomery, Alabama; and Mercedes-Benz workers in Vance, Alabama.

The UAW represents 46,000 GM workers, and a total of 146,000 workers all three of the Big Detroit automakers (GM, Ford, and Stellantis). The union recently secured record contracts with the Big Three automakers following a strike that lasted roughly six weeks. Workers voted to ratify the new GM contract late last year. The new contract was secured after union workers staged walkouts at several GM facilities, including the automaker’s Wentzville plant, Lansing Delta Township plant, Arlington plant, and Spring Hill plant. In addition, the strike affected 18 parts distribution centers.

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  1. 40 million stolen from corrupt liberal government officials.

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    1. Yep and they don’t care. UAW is wasting the members money. No one should be forced to join a union. I also don’t believe that a bunch of people are wanting to unionize, since many of these companies have large raises.

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      1. The recent pay raises were in direct response to the UAW’s latest contract with GM, Ford, and Stellantis.

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    2. You are WRONG STOOOPID!

      It’s paid by our Union dues, so stop spreading your BS !

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  2. If they gave the 40 million dollars to the membership they wouldn’t need to go on strike. I can’t fathom how the UAW would have 40 mil laying around?

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  3. Unity gives strength.
    The lone rider loses.

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  4. Looks like UAW boss looking for a raise

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  5. 40 Million so they can destroy what’s left of American auto manufacturing here in the USA? If you’re wondering why a Malibu or Equinox costs the same as a superior Camry or RAV 4, the UAW is your culprit. Domestic manufacturers should have some cost advantage due to the volume of product they build in the USA and the economies of scale buying huge amounts of steel and components for over a million vehicles a year brings. Labor grossly inflates the difference and results in higher costs than non-UAW facilities located here. If the UAW infiltrates Toyota, Honda, Nissan, etc. they’ll have to either raise prices or move manufacturing to Mexico or back to Japan.

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    1. Tesla, a non-union company, is importing vehicles from China into Canada.
      Volvo is doing the same for the US – also not UAW.
      Blaming the union for bad auto company practices ignores all evidence showing they’re going to choose overseas workers regardless of unions because of lower pay requirements.

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  6. I wonder what do all the negative union observers do when they watch TV or a movie. I wonder do they turn it off. They are all watching UNIONISTS, from the writers, camera man, actors, etc. etc. So if you hate the union, well , then, you really should not watch TV

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    1. You’re right, and I don’t becuase I have better things to do with my life than sit around watching Shreck 13 on Friday night… I’d also think about how some guy with the brains of a 5 year old and a pretty face gets paid MILLIONS of dollars to memorize several pages of predictable dialog and stand in front of a camera. Stupid people are entertained by network televsion, the rest of us live more interesting lives….

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    2. Challenge accepted. Ditching mainstream entertainment was one of the best choices I’ve made.

      People wonder why it costs so much to produce films within the United States, meanwhile a non-union Japanese studio just produced one of the best looking Godzilla movies we’ve ever seen for a mere $15m dollars. That same film would of likely of cost $100m-$200m had it been subject to the bureaucratic mess that it unionized production.

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  7. They will just move more production to Mexico and overseas because I don’t mind unions myself they make sure that the workers make more than minimum wage but 25 to 40% increase every 4 years or they strike a plant or close it?

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    1. Trump will stop that !

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    2. If unions provided as much benefit as they claim to then they wouldn’t require state and federal backing. Workers would be jumping head over heels to unionize, but they’re not.

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  8. Follow the money. Obviously the union dues are way to high to have this type of monies to invest in unionization of other factories. Let the workers vote without the benefit of payoffs. Union bosses are also over paid upper management about the same as all other companies.

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  9. Good luck with that in “Right to Work” states 🙂

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  10. UAW rats need to be disorganized and we need a return of union-busting. That’s the American way. It’s your company, you run it how you see fit.

    If you disagree with this then you should be relegated to the trash bin of history just as Mussolini and Karl Marx earned with their collectivist ways.

    If the UAW is as crucial as they claim to be then why don’t they just start their own company and put these other manufacturers out of business with their supposedly epic qualifications?

    Obviously this is rhetorical, because we all know the UAW and their members will never take an actual risk that involves the investment of their own money into the production of automobiles. They’d rather leech off of those who do, pretending that they’re somehow just as important to the process as the people organizing and funding the incredibly complex and expensive practice of manufacturing automobiles. They would fail and then come begging the federal government for another bailout.

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