OPINION: The news media's blind spots covering the working class
At midnight on Sept. 15, 49,000 United Auto Workers-represented GM workers walked out on strike at locations nationwide, a day after their 2015 collective bargaining contract with General Motors expired and the union declined to extend the provisions of the agreement.
In a statement, UAW Vice President Terry Dittes said, While we are fighting for better wages, affordable quality health care, and job security, GM refuses to put hard-working Americans ahead of their record profits of $35 billion in North America over the last three years. We are united in our efforts to get an agreement our members and their families deserve.
GOP President Donald Trump promised, then punted, on saving the GM jobs, and never seemed to imagine the UAW would later be leading the fight. Given their news coverage from earlier this year, neither did the New York Times imagine the UAW would take on GM.
While the auto industry is increasingly profitable, autoworkers have been suffering. Ground Zero of that story is the iconic GM Lordstown plant in northeastern Ohio, which lost the discontinued Chevy Cruze and was shuttered when GM moved production of the revived Chevy Blazer to Mexico.
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