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Bill Johnson, a veteran Detroit political commentator, has harsh words for organizers of a 50th anniversary commemoration Saturday of a historic march down Woodward to Cobo led by Martin Luther King, Jr.
The United Auto Workers union is desperately trying to organize Chattanooga’s Volkswagen plant. The union’s President, Bob King, has made it his personal mission to organize transnational companies in order to boost the declining UAW membership. Who is the man behind these “very aggressive campaigns” in the South?
By Doug Altner, Forbes
Long before General Motors GM +0.99% neared collapse, it was a proud and flourishing symbol of American manufacturing. In the 1950s, GM was the first company to ever make $1 billion in a single year, and it had 50% of the domestic automobile market. GM executives used to proudly quip, “we’re still losing 5 out of every 10 sales!” What happened to this great company?
The UAW is coming! The UAW is coming!
It’s not quite Paul Revere’s famous warning, but it’s true nonetheless. Yes, the United Auto Workers union, having left Detroit a shell of its former glory, has been forced to cast its gaze to the foreign-owned auto plants in the South.
The United Auto Workers union, having looted and stripped Detroit bare, have set their sights south, to the right-to-work states and the foreign-owned auto plants they host.
By Dan Chapman, The Sacramento Bee Labor unions, after years of dismal results across the
