Workers Issues in the US
Reject concessions and blackmail!
Boston Globe threatens 23% pay cut if pact is defeated
By Kate Randall, June 6, 2009
The Boston Globe has threatened to hit workers with a 23 percent pay cut if the paper’s largest union votes down a concessions contract.
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...
Workers Struggles: The Americas
June 2, 2009
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Workers Struggles: The Americas
May 19, 2009
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California: Charges brought in death of teenage farm worker
By Kevin Martinez, May 8, 2009
Involuntary manslaughter charges have been brought against the former owners of Merced Farm Labor in the death of 17 year-old pregnant farmworker María Isabel Vásquez Jiménez, who died of heat-str...
Chrysler, GM set the pace
Obama administration spearheads wage cuts for American workers
By Patrick Martin, May 5, 2009
The wage cuts imposed on auto workers at Chrysler and General Motors at the insistence of the Obama administration demonstrate the class strategy that American big business as a whole is carrying out:...
Workers Struggles: The Americas
May 5, 2009
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Workers Struggles, the Americas
April 28, 2009
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Workers Struggles: The Americas
April 21, 2009
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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.
Workers Struggles: The Americas
April 14, 2009
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Workers Struggles: The Americas
April 7, 2009
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