I thought things had been a little quiet on the western front.
When last (month) we saw United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain, he was hot off pretty robust victories over strikes against the D-3 manufacturers (GM, Stellantis, and Ford), and sharpening the proverbial knives while wielding the rhetorical ones for Toyota, Hyundai, and Volkwagen.
The UAW is launching a campaign to organize 13 non-unionized automakers.
The union announced it’s targeting workers across 13 automakers: BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Lucid, Mazda, Mercedes, Nissan, Rivian, Subaru, Tesla, Toyota, Volkswagen and Volvo. https://t.co/xknbABEbcT
— Axios (@axios) November 29, 2023
We hadn’t heard much out of them in the interim, but I’m supposing it’s because the union was busy filling out paperwork for the first salvo of the war.
UAW files unfair labor practice charges against Hyundai, Honda and VW, accusing…
