The shuttering of the more than 50-year-old plant is part of a broader attack on jobs across the industry, including nearly 2,500 cuts at Stellantis’s Warren Truck plant near Detroit.
No attempts were made by management or the UAW to account for employees even though four different fire departments responded to the emergency.
Dana Corporation auto parts workers announce the formation of a rank-and-file committee in Pennsylvania to link their struggles with other workers at the company and throughout the globe.
Dana workers at the auto parts maker’s oldest facility in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, reached out to the WSWS to discuss the abuses and low pay at the profitable corporation.
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There is absolutely nothing legitimate about UAW Local 3212’s claims that their deal was “ratified” by 92 percent Saturday.
As their strike reached a critical juncture, rank-and-file Dakkota auto parts workers in Chicago issued a statement Tuesday appealing for a ban on scab parts from their factory.
The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference has cravenly surrendered to the Trudeau Liberal government’s strikebreaking, scuttling a militant struggle of 9,300 Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) railway workers that threatened to paralyze much of the North American economy.
Mail volumes are kept artificially low to justify unrealistic workloads.
