Auto Workers Issues
Chrysler declares bankruptcy
By Jerry White, May 1, 2009
Chrysler—the third largest US automaker—filed for bankruptcy in New York Thursday, announcing that it would close its manufacturing facilities until it emerges from a Chapter 11 reorganization.
Bitter outcome of UAW sabotage of 2008 strike
Detroit American Axle plant to close
By Tom Eley, April 30, 2009
The closure of Detroit’s American Axle plant further underscores the reactionary character of the United Auto Workers. The UAW isolated and defeated last year’s strike at the company and told work...
Contract betrayal will give UAW majority ownership in Chrysler
By Jerry White, April 29, 2009
The Obama administration will give the United Auto Workers a majority stake in Chrysler in exchange for its collaboration in slashing jobs and gutting the wages, benefits and working conditions of Chr...
Michigan auto workers denounce Chrysler-UAW concessions
By Andre Damon, April 29, 2009
WSWS reporters interviewed Chrysler Workers in Detroit on new contract revisions proposed by the UAW. Voting is scheduled for Wednesday, only 24 hours after details of the contract were released.
Defend jobs, wages and benefits! Vote “No” on Chrysler-UAW concessions! Oppose job cuts at GM!
By Socialist Equality Party, April 28, 2009
The Socialist Equality Party urges auto workers to reject the mass layoffs at General Motors and the sweeping givebacks being demanded by Chrysler, the Obama administration and the United Auto Workers...
Canadian Auto Workers union imposes draconian concessions on Chrysler workers
By Keith Jones, April 27, 2009
The Canadian Auto Workers union—acting in concert with the bosses of Chrysler and Fiat, the Obama administration, and the Canadian and Ontario governments—has granted concessions to Chrysler wort...
Thousands rally in Toronto against Liberals’ rescinding of pension guarantee
By a WSWS reporting team, April 25, 2009
Thousands rallied at the Ontario legislature Thursday afternoon to protest the Ontario Liberal government’s reneging on a three-decades-old guarantee to protect retirees’ pensions in the event the...
Chrysler could file for bankruptcy as early as next week
By Jerry White, April 24, 2009
The US Treasury Department is preparing a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing for Chrysler LLC that could come as soon as next week. Meanwhile, GM is slashing production at its US plants in anticipation of i...
Defend pensions, jobs, and wages! No concessions!
Auto workers need a socialist strategy
By Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (Canada), April 23, 2009
The nationalist, pro-capitalist Canadian Auto Workers union has led auto workers into an impasse. To defend their jobs, wages and pensions, auto workers in Canada, no less than in the US, need a radic...
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.
Visteon workers reject “derisory” redundancy offer
By Daniel O’Flynn and Paul Mitchell, April 17, 2009
Workers occupying and picketing the bankrupt Visteon car parts factories in Belfast, Enfield and Basildon in the UK have rejected the latest “derisory” redundancy package.
