Stellantis imposes “temporary” layoffs on over 4,000 in Michigan and Ohio in cost-cutting move
The new round of Stellantis layoffs is further exposing the administration of UAW President Shawn Fain as a tool of management.
Shannon Jones•
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Contract negotiations in Germany’s metal and electrical industries a prelude to job cuts in automotive sector
IG Metall plans to use contract negotiations in the metal and electrical industries to slash corporate costs through lowering wages and cutting thousands of jobs.
Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
Demand a new UAW election! All power to the rank and file!
The UAW bureaucracy’s continued sellout of workers, the further exposure of corruption, and now the exposure that Fain was installed in an illegitimate election make an indisputable case for the holding of a new UAW election.
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
As automakers rake in cash
Michigan Democratic Governor Whitmer delivers gut punch to schools in 2025 budget
School officials have reacted in stunned disbelief to the Michigan 2025 budget. The $1 billion cut to the school aid fund compounds the crisis gripping schools following the cutoff of COVID relief funding.
Nancy Hanover•
Marcus Day•
Shannon Jones•
Tom Carter•
our reporters•
Jerry White•
Enough is enough! For an all-out strike of all Big Three autoworkers!
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.
Autoworkers Rank-and-File Committee Network•
The UAW bureaucracy’s fraudulent “stand-up” strike will end in a sellout of autoworkers
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.
Marcus Day•
Six facts autoworkers need to know about the UAW strike fund
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.
Shannon Jones, Jerry White•
Biden’s visit to UAW picket line: A warning to autoworkers
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.
Eric London•
Stop the EV jobs bloodbath!
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.
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
A warning to autoworkers: Why the Fain administration is promoting former UAW President Douglas Fraser
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.
Jerry White•
What autoworkers need to win the 2023 Big Three contract battle
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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Stellantis imposes “temporary” layoffs on over 4,000 in Michigan and Ohio in cost-cutting move
The new round of Stellantis layoffs is further exposing the administration of UAW President Shawn Fain as a tool of management.
Shannon Jones•
Demand a new UAW election! All power to the rank and file!
The UAW bureaucracy’s continued sellout of workers, the further exposure of corruption, and now the exposure that Fain was installed in an illegitimate election make an indisputable case for the holding of a new UAW election.
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
Socialist autoworker Will Lehman wins lawsuit against Biden’s Secretary of Labor over 2022 UAW elections
This victory vindicates the protracted and principled struggle waged by Lehman and thousands of his supporters to uphold the democratic rights of more than 1 million rank-and-file autoworkers, academic workers and retirees.
Tom Carter•
“Will Lehman was telling the truth”: Autoworkers hail court victory against sham union election
Autoworkers across the US are hailing the victory in court this week against the Department of Labor and the United Auto Workers bureaucracy over massive irregularities in the 2022 union elections.
our reporters•
Eric London•
Will Lehman•
Will Lehman•
Kevin Reed•
Will Lehman•
Mexican autoworkers kept in the dark on looming US-Canadian auto strike
The unions are seeking to divide North American auto workers, facilitating moves by the companies to offset the impact of any strike action.
Andrea Lobo•
Workers at GM plant in Silao, Mexico: US-sponsored union “destroyed our independence”
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.”
Andrea Lobo•
GM workers in Silao, Mexico speak out after co-worker loses his leg
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.
Andrea Lobo•
“If we had not struck, the union would have done nothing”
Thousands walk out in Matamoros as Mexican government lets corporations continue production during pandemic
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.
Andrea Lobo•
US-backed SINTTIA union wins representation as workers at Silao, Mexico GM plant vote out CTM
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.
Shannon Jones•
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.
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