GM reaches tentative agreement with UAW, potentially ending 6-week strike
The contract with General Motors is similar to those reached by Ford and Stellantis, but there are some differences.
The contract with General Motors is similar to those reached by Ford and Stellantis, but there are some differences.
The escalated walkout began Saturday evening at a Spring Hill, Tennessee plant, GM’s largest in North America. Its nearly 4,000 workers join about 14,000 already striking at GM factories in Texas, Michigan and Missouri.
The pact includes 25% in general wage increases over the next 4 1/2 years for top assembly plant workers, with 11% coming once the deal is ratified.
IUPUI alum Jenny Boyts, who is board president for Indy Pride Inc., will lead Forty5, which presents concerts at the Vogue and Holliday Park.
Union leaders want promises from the Big Three automakers that their wave of new electric vehicle battery plants will fall under the UAW’s contract and that workers at those plants will make UAW assembly wages of $32 an hour.
Dakarai Turner has been at WHBQ in Memphis for the past three years, where he served as weekend morning anchor and lead investigative reporter.
During a forum Thursday hosted by the not-for-profit Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute, officials from IU and Purdue emphasized continuing opportunities for collaboration even as both schools create two independent urban campuses in Indianapolis.
The sale of Walker Plaza, which was built in 1989, also clears the way for the center’s leadership to usher in a new plan for the Legacy Center, which is expected to focus on further educating the public about C.J. Walker and her work as a businesswoman and prominent figure in Indianapolis in the early 1900s.
Jet Access intends to relocate 63 corporate employees from offices in the Indianapolis area as part of the move and hire 20 more employees in Fishers by 2025, according to the city.
With the UAW strike now in its fourth week, EVs and their potential impact on job security have become central to union negotiations with the automakers.
Bro Krift will be founding CEO of the Indiana Local News Initiative, a not-for-profit media organization announced in February.
The United Auto Workers union will announce Friday afternoon whether it will widen its strike to additional factories at Detroit’s biggest vehicle manufacturers after another week of tense contract bargaining.
The first directive is to create a realistic and achievable long-term financial plan.
City officials have hired an out-of-state firm to create a development plan for the Indiana Avenue corridor, a part of downtown that has seen neighbors push back on recent project proposals.
The report of progress raises the possibility that the union might decide not to expand its walkouts at one or more of the companies.
April Simpson, who spent 12 years as an anchor in St. Louis, has been hired to fill an open position created by the coming departure of Alexis Rogers.
The project at Potato Creek State Park calls for 120 guest rooms, a 9,000-square-foot indoor aquatic facility and a conference center.
Mindrum, who has spent his career in marketing positions at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Eli Lilly and Co. and Butler University, is set to begin his new job on Dec. 1.
It was the first time in the UAW’s 88-year history that it walked out on all three companies simultaneously, as four-year contracts with the companies expired at 11:59 p.m. Thursday.
Union President Shawn Fain said the final decision on which plants to strike won’t be announced until 10 p.m. Thursday.