#General Motors

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1959

#vintage ads #vintage advertising #vintage advertisement #classic car #1959 #cadillac #general motors

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1966 Chevrolet Impala Super Sport

#general motors #classic car #chevrolet impala sport coupe #chevrolet #impala #impala ss

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Steve McQueen's 1970 Chevrolet K5 Blazer

#art #design #luxury cars #luxury lifestyle #luxurylifestyle #chevrolet #chevrolet blazer #steve mcqueen #van #suv #vehicle #utility vehicle #general motors #collectors

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Buick Flamingo Show Car, 1961. One of Buick's entries in the final GM Motorama was a heavily accessorised Electra 225 Convertible. Non-standard items included pearlescent pink finish, a custom interior featuring two-tone upholstery in pink leather contrasted with cranberry brocade and a pivoting passenger seat, which could turn through 180º to face the rear passengers. 

#Buick #Buick Flamingo #Buick Electra 225 Convertible #Buick Electra Flamingo #pearlescent pink #pink cars #GM Motorama #General Motors #General Motors Motorama #1961 #custom car #convertible #open roof #swivel seat

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'76 monte carlo. pasadena. march 2024

© tag christof

#tag christof #america is dead #on the road #general motors #colonnade coupe #monte carlo #chevrolet #1970s #malaise #interior #green #nikon zf #50mm

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General Motors 1973 Motorhome

#1973 motorhome #general motors #vintage RVs #70s aesthetic #GMC #70s advertising #70s car brochures #road trips #vintage campers #seventies #1973

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Pontiac GTO

#pontiac gto #general motors #american muscle #gm #muscle car #classic car #car #cars

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1957 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham

#cadillac #cars #classic car #oldsmobile #vintage cars #general motors

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From the car files: the 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray convertible and split-window sports coupe.

#corvette #vette #stingray #sting ray #corvette stingray #1963 split-window corvette #1963 split window corvette #split window corvette #split-window corvette #1963 chevrolet #1963 chevrolet corvette #1963 corvette #1963 vette #chevrolet corvette #60s cars #sports cars #vintage automobiles #vintage cars #gm #general motors #1963 chevrolet corvette stingray #vintage advertising

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1966 Pontiac Tempest.

#classic cars #cars #american cars #pontiac #pontiac tempest #gto #american muscle #muscle cars #muscle car #general motors #gm #Detroit #made in detroit #antique car #antique

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Pontiac Firebird, 1967

Theme Week: Cars 🚗

#theme week #pontiac #pontiac firebird #1960s cars #vintage cars #general motors #car #1960s #1967 #vintage advertising

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#muscle cars #american cars #classic cars #mopar #chevelle ss #chevrolet #1970 chevy chevelle #american muscle cars #general motors

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1963 Buick Wildcat

#classic car #general motors #buick #autos #vintage 1963 #vintage automobiles

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1967 Chevy Impala

#Chevy #Impala #automotive #GM #General Motors

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Pontiac Firebird Recaro Trans Am, 1982. Announced on January 28, 1982, the Recaro Trans Am was planned as a limited-production 3rd generation Firebird but it continued to be offered for 1983 and 1984.

#Pontiac #Pontiac Firebird Recaro Trans Am #Pontiac Firebird #special edition #Recaro seats #Trans Am #1982 #dead brands #General Motors #1980s

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Seven thousand more UAW members just walked off the job, expanding the strike to two more plants. Twenty-five thousand autoworkers are now on strike, and the walkout could continue to escalate if the Big Three don’t budge in negotiations.

[UAW president Shawn] Fain announced that Stellantis would be spared this time. The union had been expected to strike all three companies, but, said Region 1 director LaShawn English, three minutes before Fain was scheduled to go on Facebook Live, the UAW received frantic emails from company representatives.

[Note: Love that for the UAW. Also laughing so hard. Three minutes before the next round of strikes were annouced!!]

According to Fain, Stellantis made “significant progress” on cost-of-living allowances, the right not to cross a picket line, and the right to strike over product commitments and plant closures. “We are excited about this momentum at Stellantis and hope it continues,” Fain said...

“See You Next Week — Maybe?”

“These guys wanted to go out a long time ago,” said Cody Zaremba, a Local 602 member at the Lansing GM plant after the news broke that his plant would be joining the strike. “We’re ready. Everybody, truly, I believe, in the entire membership. They’re one with what’s going on.”

Five thousand workers at thirty-eight parts distribution centers across twenty-one states have been on strike since last Friday [September 22, 2023], along with thirteen thousand at three assembly plants in Michigan, Ohio, and Missouri who walked out on September 15. (See a map of all struck facilities here.) ...

The UAW is now calling on community supporters to organize small teams to canvass dealerships that sell and repair Big Three cars and trucks. On Tuesday, the union issued a canvassing tool kit with instructions, flyers, press releases, and talking points.

In negotiations with Ford and GM, autoworkers have clinched some important gains. Among them is an agreement by both companies to end at least one of the many tiers in current contracts, putting workers at certain parts plants back on the same wage scale as assembly workers. The top rate for Big Three assembly workers is currently around $32...

Ford was spared in last week’s escalation, because bargainers there had made further progress on gains for workers.

But today, the UAW once again called out workers at Ford and GM, putting some muscle behind its bold demands — a big wage boost, a shorter workweek, elimination of tiers, cost-of-living adjustments tied to inflation, protection from plant closures, conversion of temps to permanent employees, and the restoration of retiree health care and benefit-defined pensions to all workers.

-via Jacobin, September 29, 2023. Article continues below.

Keep Them Guessing

This year, for the first time in recent history, the union has played the three auto companies against each other with its strike strategy, departing from the union’s tradition of choosing one target company and patterning an agreement at the other two.

The stand-up strike strategy draws inspiration from an approach known as CHAOS (Create Havoc Around Our System), first deployed in 1993 by Alaska Airlines flight attendants, who announced they would be striking random flights. Although they struck only seven flights in a two-month period, Alaska had to send scabs on every plane, just in case. The unpredictability drew enormous media attention and drove management up the wall. Meanwhile the union was able to conserve its strength and minimize risk.

The companies miscalculated where the UAW was going to strike first, stockpiling engines and shipping them cross-country to the wrong facilities. Autoworkers relished the self-inflicted supply chain chaos on UAW Facebook groups and other social media platforms.

Nonstrikers’ morale on the factory floor has gotten a boost from rank and filers organizing to refuse voluntary overtime. With support both from Fain and the reform caucus Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), workers have been encouraging each other to “Eight and Skate,” meaning to turn down extra work and decline to do management any favors.

Majority Public Support

A majority of Americans support the UAW strikers, and the Big Three have taken a PR hit since the strike began, according to a new survey conducted by the business intelligence firm Caliber.

“Eighty-seven percent of respondents told us they were aware of the strike,” Caliber CEO Shahar Silbershatz told the Intercept. “It’s clear the strike is not just causing commercial repercussions, but reputational repercussions as well.”

These reputational repercussions will only worsen...

"We Can Unmake It"

Fain didn't pull any punches in his speech... “That’s what’s different about working-class people. Whether we’re building cars or trucks or running parts distribution centers; whether we’re writing movies or performing TV shows... we do the heavy lifting. We do the real work. Not the CEOs, not the executives.

"And though we don’t know it, that’s what power is. We have the power. The world is of our making. The economy is of our making. This industry is of our making.

“And as we’ve shown, when we withhold our labor, we can unmake it.”

-via Jacobin, September 29, 2023

#united states #us politics #organized labor #uaw #uaw strike #united auto workers #auto workers #labor rights #uaw strong #worker rights #unions #labor unions #strike #unionize #auto industry #ford #general motors #stellantis #working class #cars #michigan #ohio #missouri #solidarity forever #hot labor summer