United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain called out 8,700 workers at the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville Wednesday, faced with mounting demands from rank-and-file workers for an all-out strike.
The sellout contract at Mack faces overwhelming opposition among rank-and-file workers.
Workers have expressed overwhelming opposition to the tentative agreement the UAW is attempting to ram through, while the union has boasted of its “joint partnership approach” with Mack.
The tentative contract includes below inflation raises averaging roughly 4 percent a year, has no COLA clause and leaves untouched the hated tier system.
Irizarry, 27, was gunned down by police as he sat in his car.
The scandal is not a case of a few bad apples. Such corruption is endemic, part and parcel of the misnamed “American labor movement."
The UAW’s latest bid to shut down the strike comes as working class support for the New River Volvo workers’ struggle is growing.
Some 550 warehouse workers walked off the job Wednesday to demand better wages and working conditions.
Jill Greninger, 35, was working alone when the accident took place.
The congressman is virtually unknown to voters, but he is a leading figure among the CIA Democrats.
The moves are symptomatic of a society that can spare nothing for art and history, subordinating them to the profit imperatives of the financial elite.
The deal, which must be voted on by the membership, would create a permanent category of lower-paid educators.
The unions’ attempts to declare “victory” have so far failed to convince teachers, who remember all too well similar claims after the betrayal of their statewide strike last year.
Thousands of high school students walked out of class in solidarity with their nearly 3,000 striking teachers.
The Democrats and their “left” allies fear that Sessions’ firing will derail the anti-Russia Mueller investigation.
The bill will do little to slow the growing epidemic of opioid addiction and death.
Media and politicians dare not confront the most glaringly obvious question: Why do these attacks happen with such horrifying regularity in the United States?
The warfare within the ruling class is being waged along a front that extends from the intelligence agencies through the Republican Party and into the Trump White House itself.
Hundreds of immigrants were rounded up and deported without notice in several days of raids concluding Friday, spreading terror in immigrant communities across the US.
As attorney general, former Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions will intensify the attack on democratic rights, the expansion of police powers and Trump's anti-immigrant measures.
