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Drivers for Uber and Lyft are planning a one-day airport strike in 10 cities on Valentine’s Day, including Chicago, New York, Newark, Tampa and Orlando, to once again call attention to demands for better wages, better safety practices and job protection. The Justice for App Workers coalition, which represents over 30,000 ride-share and delivery drivers across Illinois, is leading the local effort by calling for Chicago Uber and Lyft drivers to rally at O’Hare International Airport Wednesday at 11 a.m., according to a news release from the coalition. The one-day strike means drivers would refus......

Faculty at the California State University are gearing up to strike at four campuses this week, the latest move in a months-long fight for higher pay at the nation’s largest public university system. While the California Faculty Association (CFA) — the union representing 29,000 faculty at the 23-campus institution — has called for a 12% salary increase this year, officials at California State have offered faculty a 15% increase over three years, instead, for an annual raise of 5% each year. That agreement, union leaders say, limits faculty members’ ability to negotiate until 2026-2027. “This w......

BELVIDERE, Ill. — President Joe Biden came to Belvidere on Thursday to celebrate the restarting of the idled Stellantis plant and tout his role in supporting the United Auto Workers, whose strike negotiations made it possible. In a speech before a jubilant crowd of union autoworkers at the Boone County community center, Biden, who became the first sitting president to join a picket line last month in Michigan, donned a red UAW/Belvidere T-shirt in a show of solidarity before delivering his address. “The Belvidere Assembly Plant was the beating heart of this community for nearly six decades, ju......

Detroit Three autoworkers who were on strike or laid off as a result of the United Auto Workers' work stoppage are starting to return to work after tentative agreements were reached between the union and all three automakers. Ford Motor Co. said in an update Monday night that all of its workers who had been on strike had returned to work and that it was in the process of calling back to work thousands who had been laid off at other plants. Ford last week became the first of the Detroit automakers to reach a tentative agreement on a new four-and-a-half-year contract with the UAW; Stellantis NV ......

The United Auto Workers' 44-day strike against Stellantis NV is expected to reduce the company's net income by less than $800 million (750 million euro), the least of the Detroit automakers, Chief Financial Officer Natalie Knight said Tuesday. Knight's remarks came during a conference call as the automaker reported its global third-quarter revenue and shipments, which increased 7% and 11%, respectively, year-over-year. In North America, net revenues rose 2% despite the strike-induced hit to net income. By comparison, Ford Motor Co. last week said a 41-day UAW strike cost it $1.3 billion. Gener......

The United Auto Workers has reached a tentative agreement with General Motors Co., its third deal struck with the Detroit Three automakers within a week, according to sources familiar with the situation. GM declined to comment. The GM deal is expected to follow the pattern set at Ford Motor Co. that was announced on Wednesday. That four-and-a-half-year deal features a 26% compounded wage increase, reinstated cost-of-living adjustments, a three-year timeline to the top wage and increased contributions to retiree pensions and current workers' pensions and 401(k)s. The deal at Ford resulted in mo......