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If the UAW bureaucracy had to call the strike it was only because Fain & Co. knew they would not be able to impose another sellout on workers fed up with decades of union-backed givebacks.
Coming on top of the current month-long strike by 3,200 workers at Boeing jet fighter plants in Missouri and Illinois, a strike by GE Aerospace workers would substantially impact the US war machine.
Despite efforts in using water containment booms to halt the spillage of oil, residents some 30 miles south of the Tangipahoa River, which runs alongside the explosion site, have reported seeing oil on the surface of the river.
Opposition among Volkswagen employees against the sweeping cuts to jobs and wages worked out with the help of the IG Metall union is growing. Union officials are warning: “The mood is turning.”
Two of the workers were killed after they heroically sought to save their co-worker, and all three died of hydrogen sulfide poisoning.
Workers contacted by the WSWS stressed the fact that the continuing toll of workplace and industrial deaths is the consequence of the subordination of all concerns over safety to the drive for profit.
The capitalist system treats human life as expendable from birth to death, and the same social relations that produce 54 excess child deaths per day continue to operate throughout workers’ lives.
At a press conference Monday, family members of Antonio Gaston explained that the lawsuit was aimed at getting to the truth of his August 2024 death and preventing more needless tragedies.
Autoworkers must make this the start of a broad fightback, counterposing workers’ right to employment and a decent standard of living against management’s so-called “right” to profit.
The cuts at the Detroit-area plant, set to take place on October 8, are a battle in a world war on jobs, pitting a working class united by global production against the giant transnational corporations.
Ferdinando Uliano, chairman of the Christian Metalworkers’ Union, said that Stellantis wants to eliminate at least 12,000 jobs in its Italian plants, threatening an additional 12,000 to 13,000 jobs at parts suppliers.
Since the formation of Stellantis three years ago, 23,000 of the company’s 281,000 workers worldwide have already been cut.
The IG Metall union has no thought of mobilising its 1.5 million members in the factories and plants to oppose the impending jobs massacre. Everywhere the union and its works council representatives work to implement the cuts and closures.
The transition from combustion engines to electric cars is being used by corporations and investors worldwide to cut jobs, reduce production costs and increase profits.
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.
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The decision comes amid a major crisis within the UAW bureaucracy, with union president Shawn Fain being drawn up on charges by another section of the apparatus.
Nearly a year after a judge ruled that the DOL had illegally dismissed Lehman’s original complaint relating to voter suppression, the agency—under both the Biden and Trump administrations—has taken no action.
Fain threatened to “slit the f***ing throats” of his opponents, exposing the so-called “reform” president as just another gangster bureaucrat.
It is more than nine months since a federal judge ruled in favor of Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate Will Lehman, ordering the Department of Labor to revisit his challenge to the fraudulent 2022–23 UAW election.
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.
