Auto Workers Issues
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.
Reject GM-government-UAW blackmail!
Organize rank-and-file committees to defeat concessions and defend all jobs!
By Jerry White, May 27, 2009
This statement will be distributed to General Motors auto workers on Wednesday and Thursday, as they vote on a contract agreed by the United Auto Workers (UAW).
Opel rescue plan: German unions offer wage cuts
By Ludwig Weller, May 26, 2009
Leading representatives of the German IG Metall engineering union have offered to sacrifice €1 billion in members’ wages to “rescue” Opel.
UAW, Inc.
By Jerry White, May 23, 2009
The transformation of the United Auto Workers into a business entity is the culmination of decades of betrayals and degeneration in which the UAW apparatus developed material interests separate from, ...
Canada’s political elite spearheads attack on GM workers
By Keith Jones, May 22, 2009
Canada’s federal Conservative government and the Ontario Liberal government are spearheading the drive to gut what remains of the rights and benefits won by generations of auto workers through milit...
Italy: Fiat workers protest against management and their union leadership
By Marianne Arens, May 21, 2009
Fiat workers from all over Italy demonstrated last Saturday at the Fiat company headquarters in Lingotto. At the head of the march were the workforces of two Fiat factories facing closure.
Unions, Democrats sponsor reactionary “Keep it Made in America” rallies
By Jerry White, May 15, 2009
This week’s “Keep It Made In America” rallies were aimed at diverting popular anger over mass layoffs and concessions in the auto industry and channeling opposition down the reactionary path of ...
A socialist strategy for American Axle workers
By D'Artagnan Collier, May 15, 2009
The closure of the main American Axle plant in Detroit-Hamtramck is the outcome of the UAW’s suppression of the three-month-long strike last year. Workers need a new political strategy to fight agai...
Sweden: Uncertainty over future of Saab
By Jordan Shilton, May 15, 2009
Two months after filing for bankruptcy protection, the future for Swedish automaker Saab remains unclear.
Visteon workers maintain action after accepting redundancy offer
By Julie Hyland, May 7, 2009
Visteon workers in Belfast, Enfield and Basildon have voted to accept a new offer of redundancy payments after they were summarily dismissed just over one month ago.
Video: Chrysler workers speak on concessions vote
May 1, 2009
The World Socialist Web Site spoke to workers in Warren and Detroit, Michigan on Wednesday, as they went to vote on contract revisions. The revisions, pushed by Chrysler and the United Auto Workers, i...
German trade union implements wage cuts at Opel
By Dietmar Henning, May 1, 2009
The German engineering workers’ trade union IG Metall has enacted wage cuts for its members employed at Opel, General Motors’ European subsidiary, in spite of considerable worker opposition.
