Interviews and On-the-spot reports
A conversation with Windsor municipal workers
June 26, 2009
As they enter their 11th week on strike, two strikers talk to Jerry White of the World Socialist Web Site.
New York City workers speak against cuts in healthcare and social services
June 22, 2009
The World Socialist Web Site spoke to workers in New York City on drastic cuts in health care and social services.
Striking city workers hold rally in Windsor, Ontario
By Joe Kishore, June 15, 2009
Striking city workers in Windsor, Ontario held a rally last week. D’Artagnan Collier, SEP candidate for mayor in nearby Detroit, Michigan, visited the strikers, calling for the unity of the Canadian...
Employees speak on Chrysler dealership closure
By our reporting team, June 11, 2009
Tuesday was the last business day for the 789 Chrysler dealers slated for shutdown in the automakers bankruptcy plan. WSWS reporters spoke to employees of a closing dealership in Livonia, Michigan.
Detroit Public Schools financial manager dismisses pleas at public meeting
By our reporters, June 6, 2009
Students, parents and community members urged Robert Bobb, the emergency financial manager of the Detroit Public Schools, to reverse the decision to remove the principal at Western International High ...
Michigan auto workers and families speak on plant closures
June 4, 2009
General Motors workers from Pontiac and Lake Orion, Michigan, two northern suburbs of Detroit, spoke to reporters from the World Socialist Web Site about the impact on their families and communities o...
GM workers speak out on concessions contract
May 28, 2009
The WSWS interviewed GM workers at the Michigan Poletown plant on a new concessions contract agreed by the UAW and GM, with the backing of the Obama administration.
UK Visteon workers speak on occupation
April 18, 2009
WSWS reporters spoke to laid off workers who have occupied a parts factory in the UK that supplies Ford Motor Company.
GM and Chrysler workers oppose more concessions
April 17, 2009
The WSWS interviewed auto workers in Detroit, Michigan, who spoke out again wage cuts and the threat of bankuptcy.
Ford workers: “Now the fight is with our own union.”
March 6, 2009
A WSWS reporting team speaks to Ford workers during the vote on the concessionary contract amendment supported by the union. The vote, under conditions of an historic crisis in the auto industry, is a...
Australian bush fire survivors speak with the World Socialist Web Site
February 28, 2009
World Socialist Web Site reporters visited Whittlesea, just north of Melbourne on February 14, to speak with survivors of massive bushfires that swept through Victorian towns and settlements on Februa...
Video: Chrysler workers oppose pay cuts, concession demands
February 19, 2009
Speaking to the WSWS, Chrysler workers at the Dodge Truck complex in Warren, Michigan opposed concessions demanded by the Obama administration and Wall Street.
