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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.
By Thomas Gnau, Dayton Daily News
Delphi salaried retirees are seeing retirement payments from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. change in an unexpected way.
By Robert Lenzner, Forbes
One of the stunning revelations in the new documentary film, “Brothers on the Line,” is the determined brutal fight led by the three Reuther brothers, Walter, Victor and Roy, to raise the pay and benefits of auto workers at General Motors GM -0.83%, Ford and Chrysler during the 1950s.
By Jamison Cocklin, Vindy.com
The four-year battle by Delphi Corp.’s salaried retirees to regain full pension benefits continued Monday at a hearing where lawmakers promised meaningful action and accountability on the matter for the first time in years.
By Thomas Gnau, Dayton Daily News
A U.S. House committee is planning a field hearing in Dayton Monday on how the pensions of Delphi salaried retirees were treated.
By Mark Modica, National Legal and Policy Center
It looks like the Obama Administration and the UAW are again working hand in hand as the two entities are coordinating on an offering of a total of 50 million General Motors shares.
By Kristin Longley, Mlive.com
It was the second-longest strike in the history of General Motors, involving two Flint plants, more than 9,000 employees and the idling of production at nearly 30 GM facilities across North America.
By David Shepardson, The Detroit News
The U.S. Treasury said Wednesday it plans to sell 30 million additional shares of General Motors stock in a new public offering in conjunction with GM’s return to the S&P 500 index on Thursday.
By Terry Bowman, York Daily Record
December 2009 was a turning point. As an active UAW member, I was constantly buried in political propaganda. At this fateful time, my local union’s newsletter had an article called, “Health Care Reform: What would Jesus do?”
One hundred and fifty years ago an invading Union army was halted at Chattanooga by the Confederate Army of Tennessee under General Braxton Bragg. The Battle of Chickamauga was one of the bloodiest days of the entire Civil War, and a resounding defeat for the Northern forces. Today Southeastern Tennessee faces invasion from another union— an actual labor union, the United Auto Workers (UAW). The UAW has its heart set on organizing Chattanooga’s Volkswagen plant, which employs several thousand and supports thousands more throughout the Southeast.