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Four hundred workers who manufacture backhoes and other construction equipment walked out of the plant along the Mississippi River on May 2, joining another 700 workers at CNH’s farm tractor plant in Racine, Wisconsin. 

We have formed the MMRFC to unite all employees at Michigan Medicine in a common struggle for what we need, not what the hospital or the union says is possible.

The final day of the UAW Constitutional Convention saw a bureaucratic rampage, as the leadership under President Ray Curry moved to quash opposition motions, install hand picked candidates and rescind the previously voted increase in weekly strike pay from $400 to $500 after many delegates had left.

Workers have responded with derision to the increase in strike pay, rightly viewing it as an ploy by the UAW to retain credibility in the face of growing rank-and-file militancy.

It would be the first major strike by Deere employees since 1986.

Deere and Co. workers are expected to walk out if no deal is reached Wednesday.

That is an armada of tiny sushi boats. awesome! i forgot to pack lunch. you had one job... chopsticks wasabi and soy! comin in a little hot. it only gets better when you switch and save with geico. general motors and the uaw have reached a tentative deal that could end the month-long strike. more than 30 gm factories have been brought to a stand still as 48,000 workers join the picket line. ron, whats the latest? >> hey, kris. good afternoon. you can almost hear that collective sigh of relief ...

Strike started. the workers have lost $624 million in wages that they havent received because they havent been at work. on paper, the workers have given up less, but you would imagine to a working family, every dollar means more compared to multi billion dollar corporation and some analysts say general motors will be able to recoop all of what it lost during the strike. during the strike, key sticking points remain as the contract talks continue, including path to full-time employment for tempor...

Tracee: good morning, we are entering week 3, day 15 of this strike as general motors workers walk off the picket line, we are expecting those talks to continue between both sides as they have been going on every single day but today begins the day when strikes employees can get a paycheck, they can earn $250 a week in strike pay that works out 6.25 an hour, plus talks ongoing and have progressed to main table stage which means theyre getting a lot of the big issues out there discussing them, th...

United auto workers on the picket line at 31 plants across the country. >> this is for the future for all of us. >> reporter: among the issues, the idling of four plants in the u.s. including the detroit assembly plant slated to be shut down in january. >> were asking for decent wages, job security and temporary workers that need to be permanent. >> reporter: last year gm hauled in almost $12 billion in profits, a decade after it filed for bankruptcy the auto maker made what it described as a st...