Biden Labor Department just issued final rule to extend overtime pay to millions more workers, by preventing companies from exempting employees unless they make (starting next year) at least $58,656 a year dol.gov/sites/dolgov/f…

Biden Labor Department just issued final rule to extend overtime pay to millions more workers, by preventing companies from exempting employees unless they make (starting next year) at least $58,656 a year dol.gov/sites/dolgov/f…

“At Tesla’s battery factory in Nevada, many staff started their Monday with gridlock at the front gate. They were diverted to a parking lot where security guards scanned badges to discern who still had jobs and who had been laid off.” bloomberg.com/news/features/… Ed Ludlow Dana “Legacy Blue Checkmark” Hull 👩🏻‍💻

Victory at Volkswagen “may mean that Shawn Fain is the real thing, and he’s going to deliver on his promise to totally unionize auto production in this country,' longtime management-side lawyer Roger King told me before the UAW won there bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Victory at Volkswagen “may mean that Shawn Fain is the real thing, and he’s going to deliver on his promise to totally unionize auto production in this country,' longtime management-side lawyer Roger King told me before the UAW won there bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

NEW Businessweek cover story on green jobs & Shawn Fain, the UAW's paradigm-busting, incumbent-ousting, trash-talking, scripture-citing, Malcolm-X-quoting, billionaire-bashing, EV-embracing, Biden-pressuring, Trump-blasting, Musk-taunting, history-making president:
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One of the Volkswagen UAW organizing committee members is headed to Alabama Sunday to meet with the Mercedes committee members there who have their own high-stakes vote next month.“Every factory in the South is capable of doing what we did,” she told me bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

I’ve spent months working with the Volkswagen Chattanooga workers, helping them tell their stories in the media. Here’s what last night’s victory means for all the workers I have gotten to know…🧵

“I think it’s going to start a chain reaction,” UAW president Shawn Fain told me today. “Once we show the world that it is possible, I think it’s going to open the door for… tens of thousands of other workers to join in and to get justice on the job.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Mini-Inside Organizer School underway at Labor Notes... if you have a job, you need a union, and if you want to build the union, you should get a job!

One of the Volkswagen UAW organizing committee members is headed to Alabama Sunday to meet with the Mercedes committee members there who have their own high-stakes vote next month.“Every factory in the South is capable of doing what we did,” she told me bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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“Volkswagen thanks its Chattanooga workers for voting in this election,” the company said in a brief statement acknowledging employees “voted in favor of union representation in their workplace.”

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Latest on UAW’s landslide 2,628 to 985 win at Volkswagen: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… “Who has the right to tell us that we’re not worth what other Americans are making?… Every factory in the South is capable of doing what we did.”

“I think it’s going to start a chain reaction,” UAW president Shawn Fain told me today. “Once we show the world that it is possible, I think it’s going to open the door for… tens of thousands of other workers to join in and to get justice on the job.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Volkswagen workers “should have very high expectations” for what they can win in negotiations over a first union contract, Shawn Fain told me today. “We want to try to follow our pattern” set by last fall’s Big Three contracts, he said. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Breaking: UAW has won the Volkswagen Tennessee union election, union says bloomberg.com/news/articles/… A huge breakthrough that could help spur many more wins bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The UAW has already notched “yes” votes from around 34% of the 4300 potential voters at the Volkswagen plant, according to the union’s count (vwvote.uaw.org); “no” votes have been counted from around 9%

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