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Severe illness and hospitalizations of numerous workers expose the indifference to workers’ safety at the top levels of the project.
Stellantis has announced that it will cut as many as 2,465 jobs at its Detroit Assembly Complex-Mack and 1,225 jobs at the Toledo Assembly Complex, with the layoffs coming as early as February 5.
The DSA has been an integral component of the Democrats’ attempted rehabilitation of the UAW apparatus, while other pseudo-left organizations are coming forward as an additional line of defense.
The UAW has launched what it calls and “unprecedented” effort to unionize nonunion auto plants under conditions of growing militancy and class struggle in an effort to contain this movement in a corporatist straitjacket.
Workers want to join the walkout, but we have to develop the means to overrule the biggest strikebreakers of all—Fain and the rest of the UAW bureaucracy.
In every sector, in the US and in other countries, the union apparatuses are completely committed to suppressing workers’ opposition and preventing a unified struggle.
The official total reported for the assets of the UAW strike fund is a gross understatement of the financial wealth controlled by the union apparatus.
Judging by the response of the UAW bureaucracy and corporate media to Joe Biden’s brief visit to a UAW picket line in Michigan Tuesday, the president and former Delaware senator has transformed himself overnight from a longtime representative of the corporations into the greatest champion of the working class since Karl Marx himself.
What is being prepared is not a contract, it is a death warrant for hundreds of thousands of auto jobs in North America and millions around the world.
Fraser, who was president of the United Auto Workers union from 1977 to 1983, oversaw the destruction of 57,000 Chrysler jobs and cuts in annual wages of the equivalent of nearly $40,000 per worker in today’s terms.
If the UAW bureaucracy retains control over the contract process, it will once again be led to defeat. But if workers organize themselves and take the reins of their fight, the immense strength of the working class can be unleashed.
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The video posted Sunday calls for the working class to intervene and stop Israel’s murderous assault on Palestinians in Gaza.
Any serious examination of the UAW contracts’ terms reveal that they are a continuation of the corporations’ class war against workers.
Attorneys for Will Lehman filed a motion in Michigan federal court last week seeking to reverse the purported “dismissal” of his election complaint by the Biden administration.
The majority of workers who stopped to talk to the World Socialist Web Site expressed serious reservations about the contract. Most predicted that the vote would be close.
The unions are seeking to divide North American auto workers, facilitating moves by the companies to offset the impact of any strike action.
The AFL-CIO and US government imposed a so-called “independent” union at the GM Silao factory that has acted no differently from the corrupt charro unions, according to six workers used in the process and then “thrown into the trash.”
Deeply stirred by the accident, active and former workers of the Silao plant reached out to the World Socialist Web Site to register their anger, describe safety concerns and condemn the new and so-called Independent Union (SINTTIA) for its bankrupt response.
A year after wildcat strikes involving 70,000 workers, the maquiladora workers in Matamoros are leading the fight against the dangers workers face from Covid-19.
The claim that the victory of SINTTIA in the vote by Silao workers represents at step forward is belied by the support it received from the corrupt, pro-management US union bureaucracy and the Biden administration.
During the first weeks of 2019, tens of thousands of striking workers brought to a halt virtually all the maquiladora manufacturing plants in the industrial Mexican city of Matamoros, just across the US border with Brownsville, Texas.
In a remarkable display of class unity and power, workers defied threats of retribution and violence from companies, union thugs, police and the military, and shut down a significant section of the closely-interconnected supply chain in North America.
Key to organizing their struggles across different companies and sectors was the formation of rank-and-file strike committees. Daily reports by the World Socialist Web Site played an important role in guiding the struggle and winning broader support.
In 2012, a management-provoked incident at the Maruti Suzuki Manesar auto factory outside of Delhi, India, was used as the pretext for the mass prosecution and frame-up of autoworkers, with 13 sentenced to life.
