The United Auto Workers union said its membership rose 3.1 percent last year to 403,466 — the fifth-straight annual increase, and the first time since 2008 that it topped 400,000.The rent-seeking update.
Still, the union has lost about 250,000 members since 2004 and is down sharply from its all-time record of 1.53 million members in 1979. It faces challenges of “right-to-work” laws in Michigan and elsewhere that allow members to opt out. Hourly workers at Detroit’s Big Three automakers will have that option after this year’s contract talks.
A key UAW priority is getting a pay raise for workers at Detroit’s Big Three automakers, and it also faces other big contract talks this year.
The Detroit-based union said its total assets fell to $978.1 million, down from $990 million at the end of 2013.
Wednesday, April 01, 2015
UAW membership rises 3.1% in 2014
The Detroit News reports:
