EconomyCommentary
Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, will vote this week on whether to join the United Auto Workers, and President Joe Biden is trying to help. Last month,… Read More
EconomyCommentary
In October 2021, I warned that the inflationary fallout from Bidenomics would lead to an increase in labor unrest and strikes. Two years later, we have the biggest… Read More
EconomyCommentary
“If we can keep them wounded for months, they don’t know what to do … this is recurring reputations damage and operation chaos.” That leaked… Read More
EconomyNews
DETROIT—Picketers from the UAW continue to protest outside Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant as the employee parking lots here sit empty. The Daily Signal spoke with… Read More
Commentary
President Joe Biden showed “solidarity” with striking United Auto Workers by joining it Tuesday on the picket line near Detroit—one day before former President Donald… Read More
EnergyCommentary
The big economic news at the end of last week was the start of a strike by the United Auto Workers union against all three major… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Divorced from economic reality, the new leader of the United Auto Workers union has made exorbitant demands that, by roughly doubling the compensation of many… Read More
As the year comes to a close, we reflect on 2012 by offering highlights of the top 10 most-read research papers by Heritage scholars. 1)… Read More
President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney sparred last night in the second of three presidential debates. Today’s Morning Bell features reaction from… Read More
President Obama’s auto bailout is being touted as a great success of his Administration. Speaking in Detroit at a Labor Day rally, Vice President Joe… Read More
Taxpayers will lose even more on the auto bailout than previously thought, as the Treasury has just revised its estimate upward to $25 billion. This… Read More
In this week’s Heritage in Focus, expert James Sherk discusses the bailout of U.S. automakers. Click here to listen. Why did the United Auto Workers union receive… Read More
President Obama told the United Auto Workers (UAW) in February not to listen to critics of the auto bailout who said union members “made out… Read More
Did you know that there are no Volkswagen manufacturing plants in the Detroit area? Or Mercedes-Benz? Or Kia? Or Hyundai? Or BMW, for that matter?… Read More
Look out, America. The United Auto Workers union is prepared to do whatever it takes to “defend democracy,” including using the tactics of the protesters… Read More
The Big Labor full-court press is in full swing ahead of President Barack Obama’s speech next week in which he will roll-out a new jobs plan…. Read More
Last month when the White House released its visitor log for the first six months of the Obama presidency, one name appeared far more often… Read More
In the wake of the General Motors and Chrysler’s bankruptcies, United Auto Workers finds itself in a complicated position. In some sense it has achieved… Read More
Throughout the next two weeks, the Foundry will be highlighting some testimonials of General Motors bondholders. When President Obama describes bondholders, you get the distinct… Read More
The news of another auto bailout was met with a whimper last week. Surely, the little noticed request for an additional $22 billion was partly… Read More
Surely, some concessions can be made, right?
In an Op-Ed peice about the Auto-bailout that appeared in today’s DC Examiner, Lori Roman equated the government bailing out to sending arsonists to fighting… Read More
