Workers Struggles: The Americas
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German automaker Audi cuts 7,500 jobs
The IG Metall union boasts about the “success” of the so-called “Agreement for the Future” and is already busy working to implement the job cuts and other savings measures at Audi.
K. Nesan•
Volkswagen to cut shift at Chattanooga, Tennessee plant in one week
The UAW bureaucracy is seeking to block a genuine fight by VW workers to defend jobs, with UAW President Shawn Fain escalating his nationalist rhetoric and promotion of Trump.
Will Coleman, Marcus Day•
Free Mahmoud Khalil! All UAW Members Must Take a Stand Against Trump’s Dictatorship!
The seizure of Khalil is a major escalation of Trump’s move toward dictatorship that must be opposed by all members of the United Auto Workers.
Will Lehman•
George Kirby•
Jerry White•
Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
George Kirby, Jerry White•
Chase Lawrence•
Support the Dakkota workers strike! Ban scab parts and launch a rank-and-file counteroffensive!
Rank-and-file autoworkers in Chicago are appealing for the broadest mobilization of support and solidarity for the strike at the Dakkota parts plant.
Ford Chicago Rank-and-File Committee, Dakkota Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
“We are still in the fight”: Less than an hour after striking Dakkota parts workers reject third sellout, UAW bureaucracy announces a fourth
The bureaucracy, acting on behalf of both Dakkota and Ford, is no doubt extremely nervous that matters are coming to a head and that they are losing control with the development of the Dakkota workers rank-and-file rebellion.
George Marlowe•
Dakkota workers: Vote NO and reject UAW-corporate blackmail! Organize rank-and-file oversight of the vote!
To prevent a betrayal of the struggle by the UAW, it is urgently necessary for rank-and-file Dakkota workers to take control of the situation and enforce their will.
Dakkota Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Dakkota auto parts workers reject second UAW sellout agreement: “The fight is on”
The rebellion by Dakkota workers against the sellout deal is a major rebuke to the UAW bureaucracy, further exposing the fraudulent claims of UAW President Shawn to be leading a struggle for workers’ interests.
Marcus Day•
“We need a worldwide strike”: Striking Dakkota auto parts workers call for expanded struggle
There are growing calls at Ford Chicago for a ban on the use of scab parts, which the UAW apparatus has refused to implement.
George Marlowe•
Dakkota auto parts workers walk out, impacting production at nearby Ford Chicago plant
The Dakkota walkout is an indication of the ongoing dissatisfaction and growing militancy among auto parts workers, which the UAW apparatus has thus far hoped to contain with a handful of limited, ineffective strikes.
Marcus Day•
Rebellion at Dakkota: Chicago auto parts workers reject fourth UAW sellout
The courageous rebellion by Dakkota workers urgently requires action be taken in their support by autoworkers and rank-and-file UAW members everywhere.
George Marlowe, Marcus Day•
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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Reject UAW’s support for Trump’s tariffs! Unite US, Mexican and Canadian autoworkers to defend jobs and living standards!
Shawn Fain lied when he and the UAW apparatus backed Harris and the Democrats, claiming that they were allies of workers. Now he is lying when he claims that Trump’s tariffs will benefit the working class.
Will Lehman•
Erdoğan government's wave of repression continues amid growing wildcat strikes
In order to intimidate the social opposition, the Turkish government is trying to criminalise workers' struggles and support for them, while at the same time trying to show legal political organisations as an extension of a "terrorist organisation".
Barış Demir•
Federal judge orders UAW to stop obstructing ongoing investigation into corruption within Fain administration
On Monday, federal judge David Lawson of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ordered the UAW to produce records and documents the union had been withholding in an effort to block an investigation into ongoing corruption within the UAW bureaucracy presently led by UAW President Shawn Fain.
Eric London•
Socialist autoworker Will Lehman’s message to Boeing strikers: Build rank-and-file committees to take control of your fight from the IAM bureaucrats!
“You need organizations which you control, to transfer power from corrupt officials in bed with management to the 33,000 IAM members at Boeing, as well as the company’s global workforce.”
Will Lehman•
Will Lehman•
Carl Bronski•
Jerry White•
Will Lehman•
Tim Rivers•
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.