‘Companies Will Bring Work Back’: UAW President Defends Trump Tariffs In Verbal Slugfest With Befuddled MSNBC Hosts
United Autoworker (UAW) President Shaun Fein engaged in an 11-minute oral battle with MSNBC. Alicia Menendez, Simon Thundertownsend and Michael Steele were hosted on Sunday over the tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump. Trump announced mutual tariffs to address import obligations and “terrifying imbalances” in trade with other countries during his Rose Garden event on […]
DAVID BLACKMON: Europe’s EV Market Collapse Provides A Lesson For UAW Leadership
It's a little-known secret in American politics that most of the nation's largest labor unions have long been client organizations of the Democratic Party. In presidential election years, it's generally assumed that these unions will support the party's candidates, regardless of the voting habits of their rank-and-file members. Some have been quick to endorse others, […]
Mike Rogers roasts UAW’s attack on Governor Ivey – ‘I’ve seen what the UAW has done to Detroit’
Rep. Mike Rogers responded to recent fiery comments made by United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain against Gov. Kay Ivey. “Right now, workers at the Mercedes plant in Tuscaloosa are organizing to unionize with the UAW. Of course, they're fighting back because the company isn't going to take it lying down, and neither are the […]
Stadthagen: UAW is a multi-level marketing scheme selling empty promises to Alabama auto workers
Our state is facing a situation that could destroy Alabama jobs, Alabama businesses and Alabama communities. The UAW is peddling bogus drugs to hardworking Alabamians who work in auto manufacturing plants and taking money from good people's wallets. To me, this is nothing new. I was raised by a single mother who worked shifts at […]
UAW boss: Ivey, BCA is mounting ‘more vocal’ offense to union campaign in Alabama than faced other Southern states
Sean Fain, president of the United Auto Workers (UAW), told National Public Radio: Unionizing the South After a big win at Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee, last week, the union is next turning its attention to Alabama, Fain told NPR. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled that workers at a Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, […]
Speaker Ledbetter: A history lesson on the UAW
I grew up in a textile town once known as the “Hosiery Capital of the World,” so if you'd told me 20 years ago that Alabama would become the nation's largest exporter of automobiles, I probably wouldn't have believed you. That all changed when Mercedes put down roots here in 1997. Over the past 27 […]
Arthur Orr concerned Alabama auto manufacturing could ‘come to a screeching halt’ if UAW is successful
State Sen. Arthur Orr (R-Decatur) is concerned about the future of auto manufacturing in Alabama because of efforts to unionize the Mercedes-Benz plant. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced that workers at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Alabama will vote to unionize between May 13 and May 17. The concerns arose after the United […]
Mike Rogers: ‘The UAW is standing with the crazed, pro-Hamas rioters’
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Saxon District) on Thursday blasted the United Auto Workers (UAW) leadership for siding with the agitators currently stirring up trouble on college campuses. UAW President Sean Fain statement He criticized the police and some university leadership for “mass arrests” of anti-Israel demonstrators. The UAW will never support mass arrests or intimidation of […]
UA, Auburn issue joint cease and desist to UAW over trademark infringement
The University of Alabama and Auburn University have issued a rare joint statement about the misuse of their trademarks: The United Auto Workers (UAW) has received a cease and desist letter from lawyers representing the two universities for mass-producing and selling pro-union merchandise that features the universities' official trademarks. Next week Voting will take place […]
Nick Saban denounces UAW for misrepresenting comments, likeness in advertisements
Ahead of next week's unionization vote at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the United Auto Workers (UAW) has begun distributing paid ads suggesting support for former University of Alabama head coach Nick Saban. In a statement Sunday, Saban denied those rumors and asked the UAW to stop using his likeness in promotional […]
