Today, UAW President Gary Jones announced that he was resigning amid corruption charges and anger over botched contract talks at GM. Members around the UAW took to facebook to celebrate the resignation. “Its about time,” wrote UAW Local 1097 Recording Secretary Chris Brancato, whose 8000-local voted against the GM contract

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In 1957, the entire 101st Airborne Division (minus the division’s black soldiers) were sent down south to integrate Little Rock Central High. The scene was tense with violent mobs threatening students trying to integrate the high school. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus even threatened to use the 10,000 members

UAW President Gary Jones has taken paid administrative leave as the four-year federal investigation into the UAW, begun under the Obama Administration, has deepened. In his place, Rory Gamble, a protege of Jones, who previously headed up the UAW’s Ford Division, has taken over as acting President of the