Legionella outbreak at GM Tech Center in Detroit suburb
On September 10, 2025, two employees working at the General Motors technical center in Warren, Michigan, tested positive for Legionnaires’ disease.
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US government attorneys admit Labor Department has still not complied with June 2024 court order in Will Lehman’s UAW elections case
The government’s ongoing efforts to maintain that the 2022-23 UAW elections were legitimate come amid an intensifying crisis facing the administration of UAW President Shawn Fain.
Marcus Day•
South Korean workers detail inhumane conditions in ICE custody following raid at Georgia Hyundai plant
Following their repatriation back to South Korea, workers are speaking out on the deplorable conditions they endured after being kidnapped by the immigration Gestapo.
Patrick Smith•
Oppose UAW sellout of GE Aerospace strike! Demand immediate release of full contract proposal!
The UAW bureaucracy is rushing to shut down the strike to prevent any further disruption to the Trump administration's war plans.
Anthony Wallace, Jerry White•
Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
Shannon Jones, Jerry White•
Ben McGrath•
Patrick Smith, Jacob Crosse•
Carl Bronski•
Horrific death of UK worker after falling into silo
The UK Health and Safety Executive reported 124 work-related deaths in 2024/25, while 1.7 million people self-reported ill health related to work the previous year.
Margot Miller•
5 months after death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr., silence and cover-up continue
Five months since the death of Ronald Adams Sr., his widow Shamenia Steward-Adams said, “... all I know is that my husband is dead, and the workers are back working.”
Jerry White•
Cal/OSHA “reform” bill is a fraud: Workers must organize independently to fight corporate killings
Decades of bipartisan deregulation and union collaboration have created a social catastrophe. The defense of workers’ lives requires rank-and-file committees, not token reforms designed to protect the corporations.
Marc Wells•
3 Texas workers killed by toxic gas at sewer plant
Two of the workers were killed after they heroically sought to save their co-worker, and all three died of hydrogen sulfide poisoning.
Chase Lawrence•
Our reporter•
Benjamin Mateus, Evan Blake•
Shannon Jones•
Landon Gourov, Kevin Reed•
Our reporters•
Fight the layoffs at Stellantis Warren Truck! Organize a rank-and-file counteroffensive!
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.
Autoworkers Rank-and-File Committee Network•
Stop mass layoffs at Warren Truck! Mobilize the international working class against job cuts!
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.
Tom Hall•
25,000 jobs at risk at Stellantis plants in Italy
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.
Marianne Arens•
Attacks on jobs and social benefits at Opel, Germany part of global job cuts by Stellantis
Since the formation of Stellantis three years ago, 23,000 of the company’s 281,000 workers worldwide have already been cut.
Marianne Arens, K. Nesan•
Massive job cuts in the German automotive and supplier industry
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.
Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
Volkswagen threatens 3,000 jobs as it prepares to shut down its Audi plant in Brussels
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.
Ulrich Rippert•
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•
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US government attorneys admit Labor Department has still not complied with June 2024 court order in Will Lehman’s UAW elections case
The government’s ongoing efforts to maintain that the 2022-23 UAW elections were legitimate come amid an intensifying crisis facing the administration of UAW President Shawn Fain.
Marcus Day•
Continuing Biden’s policy, Trump Labor Department rejects Will Lehman’s UAW election complaint
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.
Marcus Day, Tom Hall•
Will Lehman sues Labor Department over refusal to follow court order on UAW election complaint
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.
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Court monitor’s report exposes thuggishness of UAW bureaucracy under “reform” president Fain
Fain threatened to “slit the f***ing throats” of his opponents, exposing the so-called “reform” president as just another gangster bureaucrat.
Tom Hall•
Joseph Kishore•
Will Lehman•
Barış Demir•
Eric London•
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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