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    Slovakia Workers’ Strike Successful

    A united workforce at Volkswagen’s Bratislava plant won higher wage increases than proposed by management after a six-day strike that concluded Monday, June 26. Reuters news agency reported that the agreement reached by the Modern Union Volkswagen (MOV) and Volkswagen

    crossblueadmin June 28, 2017 posts, Uncategorized Read more

    News for Abroad … VW Workers in Slovakia Take a Stand

    For the first time in the 26-year history of Volkswagen in Slovakia, workers at the production plant in Bratislava have gone on strike for better wages. According to the Reuters news agency, production lines stopped on Tuesday, June 20 as

    crossblueadmin June 26, 2017 posts, Uncategorized Read more

    Our Message to VW Shareholders: “We Deserve Collective Bargaining!”

    Our fight for collective bargaining received a hearing 4,500 miles away and across the Atlantic Ocean at the annual meeting of Volkswagen shareholders held May 10 in Hannover, Germany. Local 42 President Steve Cochran delivered a clear and unequivocal message

    crossblueadmin May 14, 2017May 15, 2017 posts, Uncategorized Read more

    Union Leaders From VW Overseas Plants Visit Chattanooga

    Union representatives from Volkswagen plants in Mexico, Poland, Brazil, South Africa and the United Kingdom – as well as a large contingent from Local 42 – met in Chattanooga on April 12 and 13 to exchange information on Volkswagen’s labor

    crossblueadmin May 1, 2017May 1, 2017 posts, Uncategorized Read more

    Tennessee Auto Workers Receive Record Bonus

    Spring Hill GM Workers Earn $12,000 Profit Sharing Checks As a result of the collective bargaining agreement negotiated by the United Auto Workers (UAW) with General Motors, hourly workers are set to receive the largest profit sharing checks in history

    crossblueadmin February 9, 2017February 9, 2017 Uncategorized Read more

    GM Workers End 2016 With Quality Bonuses

    General Motors workers, including those up the road at the Spring Hill plant, ended 2016 with cash in their pockets. As part of their collective bargaining agreement with the company, production and maintenance employees received $500 bonuses in December for

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    Steve Cochran’s Report From Wolfsburg

    I was privileged to represent our plant at a recent meeting of the Volkswagen Global Group Works Council held December 5-8 in Wolfsburg, Germany. The Works Council is composed of representatives from plants around the world and I provided them

    crossblueadmin December 22, 2016January 30, 2017 posts, Uncategorized Read more

    Local 42 Hosts Union Sportsmen’s Banquet

    Nearly 250 UAW Local 42 members, friends and family members crowded into the IBEW Auditorium on Sunday evening, November 6, for food, fellowship and fun. Region 8 Director Ray Curry and Assistant Director Ron Hendrix joined the festivities. Before the

    crossblueadmin November 18, 2016November 18, 2016 posts Read more

    Welcome Back James Robinson!

    Many of us have observed how differently supposed infractions are dealt with in our plant, depending on the supervisor involved or who it is supposedly committing the infraction. James Robinson, a team member in the Assembly shop, had the courage

    crossblueadmin November 11, 2016 posts, Uncategorized Read more

    Volkswagen faces bumpy road in challenge to ‘micro-union’

    REUTERS Mon Sep 26, 2016 | 11:56am EDT By Daniel Wiessner and Bernie Woodall   Volkswagen has joined other large companies and a chorus of business groups and Republican lawmakers in challenging a union strategy of organizing splinter groups of workers, but experts

    crossblueadmin October 18, 2016October 18, 2016 Uncategorized Read more
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