Impact of Trump tariffs roils global auto production as workers bear the brunt
The impact of Trump’s tariffs are being felt by autoworkers in the form of relentless undermining of working conditions, layoffs and disruptions.
Shannon Jones•
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Emboldened by Trump, Ford expands police-state searches to Chicago plant
The blatant violation of basic constitutional protections coincided with and was encouraged by Trump’s deployment of troops to Chicago.
Tim Rivers•
6 months since the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr., widow asks: “Why don’t I have answers?”
Stellantis, the United Auto Workers and Michigan safety officials continue to remain silent on the death of the 63-year-old skilled tradesman, even as full production at the engine plant has resumed.
Jerry White•
Judge rejects government’s attempt to delay again in Will Lehman’s UAW election case
The Department of Labor had sought to use the government shutdown as an excuse to stall compliance with a court-ordered deadline.
Our reporter•
Ludwig Weller, Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
Jerry White•
Our reporter•
Nick Beams•
16 workers killed in Tennessee explosion: Industrial carnage followed by media cover-up
Sixteen workers were incinerated in a US weapons plant—the largest mass death in an industrial disaster since the 2010 Upper Big Branch mine explosion—and the news networks and other corporate media simply moved on.
Jerry White•
Impact of Trump tariffs roils global auto production as workers bear the brunt
The impact of Trump’s tariffs are being felt by autoworkers in the form of relentless undermining of working conditions, layoffs and disruptions.
Shannon Jones•
6 months since the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr., widow asks: “Why don’t I have answers?”
Stellantis, the United Auto Workers and Michigan safety officials continue to remain silent on the death of the 63-year-old skilled tradesman, even as full production at the engine plant has resumed.
Jerry White•
Dundee Engine nearly six months after workplace death: “The machines are running at full blast, and not a word is being said about Ronald Adams”
At a meeting for workers returning from layoff, management and United Auto Workers officials maintained a guilty silence about the death of the 63-year-old skilled tradesman.
Jerry White•
Nate Rodshaw•
Marc Wells•
Jerry White•
Margot Miller•
Jerry White•
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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Judge rejects government’s attempt to delay again in Will Lehman’s UAW election case
The Department of Labor had sought to use the government shutdown as an excuse to stall compliance with a court-ordered deadline.
Our reporter•
Judge gives US government deadline to comply with order in Will Lehman’s UAW elections case
The ruling sets an October 31 deadline for the government to provide its explanation for rejecting Lehman’s claims about the anti-democratic character of the UAW elections, more than a year after it was first instructed to do so.
Our reporter•
The New York Times intervenes to defend discredited UAW President Shawn Fain
The United Auto Workers bureaucracy is facing an unprecedented crisis with rank-and-file opposition growing against its collusion with the corporations and the Trump administration.
Jerry White, Tom Hall•
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•
Marcus Day, Tom Hall•
Our reporter•
Tom Hall•
Joseph Kishore•
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•
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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