{"id":4724,"date":"2019-10-17T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=4724"},"modified":"2019-09-30T10:43:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T15:43:47","slug":"autoworkers-union-goes-on-strike-against-g-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=4724","title":{"rendered":"Autoworkers&#8217; Union Goes on Strike Against G.M."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nearly 50,000 members of the United Automobile Workers union (U.A.W.) went on strike at General Motors&#8217; factories across the Midwest and South. U.A.W. regional leaders in Detroit voted unanimously to authorize the strike, the union&#8217;s first walkout since 2007. The U.A.W. is pushing General Motors to improve wages, re-open idled plants, add jobs at others, and close or narrow the difference in pay rates for new hires and veteran workers. General Motors wants its employees to pay a greater portion of health care costs and to increase work-force productivity and flexibility in factories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/08\/14\/PDTF\/649ec933-5eea-4fd9-be44-c6ea4304bca4-UAW.JPG?crop=2399,1349,x0,y195&amp;width=3200&amp;height=1680&amp;fit=bounds\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"172\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>If you would like to speak to an attorney about an employment matter, call our law office at 816-524-4949 or visit our website at Hoorfarlaw.com. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 50,000 members of the United Automobile Workers union (U.A.W.) went on strike at General Motors&#8217; factories across the Midwest and South. U.A.W. regional leaders in Detroit voted unanimously to authorize the strike, the union&#8217;s first walkout since 2007. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=4724\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4725,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions\/4725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}