3,300 nickel miners, smelter and mill workers have been on strike in Sudbury and Port Colborne, Ontario for over ten months against the concession demands of Brazilian based transnational mining giant Vale Inco.
Volvo announces layoffs at New River Valley, Virginia truck plant, site of major 2021 strike
The plant was the site of a workers’ rebellion in 2021 against repeated attempts by the United Auto Workers to force through a sellout contract, in which the Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee played a critical role.
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Indianapolis Rolls-Royce workers authorize strike
With a contract deadline approaching, 800 workers at the company's Indianapolis plant voted massively for strike.
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Reject the Global Security Task Force at Ford
No police, no dogs, no undercover agents in our factories! Build rank-and-file-committees in every plant!
Ford workers insist “we do not give up our Constitutional rights when we walk into the plant.”
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Unifor bureaucrats rally round Ontario hard-right premier Doug Ford in province’s “tariff war” election
Underscoring the accelerating march to the right of Canada’s union bureaucracies, Unifor Local 1285—the bargaining agent for some 8,000 auto assembly, auto parts, food processing and other workers in Brampton, Ontario—has endorsed Ford and his Conservatives.
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