More than 600 software engineers, product managers and digital designers—the core team sustaining the New York Times’ digital infrastructure—walked off the job, demanding increased pay and calling for an end to discriminatory performance management practices.
Parents at Fuentes Elementary organized a demonstration to protest the closure of their children’s school. Acero, the charter network, is closing seven schools this year, impacting 2,000 students and 250 jobs in primarily working class communities.
On Monday, nearly 400 Eaton workers at the Troy and Highland, Illinois, facilities went on strike and joined a global strike wave of their coworkers in the United States and in Britain.
The rebellion of Dakkota workers has kept coming into conflict with the pro-company UAW bureaucracy, which has worked to sabotage, isolate and break the strike from the very beginning.
The courageous rebellion of striking Dakkota parts workers, who defied an unprecedented four sellout agreements, is in danger of being shut down and betrayed as the UAW is threatening workers with a fifth vote on the same agreement.
In a development of immense significance in the class struggle, Dakkota workers have sought to break the isolation imposed by the UAW bureaucracy and go on the offensive.
After defying a UAW-company sellout contract vote for an unprecedented fourth time, Dakkota auto parts workers in Chicago are reaching a critical turning point in their fight.
The courageous rebellion by Dakkota workers urgently requires action be taken in their support by autoworkers and rank-and-file UAW members everywhere.
The bureaucracy, acting on behalf of both Dakkota and Ford, is no doubt extremely nervous that matters are coming to a head and that they are losing control with the development of the Dakkota workers rank-and-file rebellion.
On Tuesday, Dakkota parts workers in Chicago denounced the UAW for bringing back a sellout deal identical to one they previously rejected overwhelmingly.
The UAW has called a snap vote to shut down the strike at Dakkota in Chicago, infuriating many workers who are disgusted with the agreement and the process.
There are growing calls at Ford Chicago for a ban on the use of scab parts, which the UAW apparatus has refused to implement.
“The companies are making billions easy,” a striking worker said. “They’re not building the cars, we are. And then they want to give us crumbs and think it’s okay? It’s not okay.”
There is widespread opposition by Ford Chicago workers to the possibility they will be forced to handle scab-made parts from Dakkota.
The families of two construction workers have initiated lawsuits after one died and another was listed in critical condition, after they fell down nine stories at a construction site at the University of Chicago medical campus.
Workers have responded with anger to the death of 28-year-old Caterpillar worker Daulton Simmers at the foundry in Mapleton, Illinois.
The latest horrific death took place almost exactly two years after Caterpillar worker Steven Dierkes was instantly incinerated falling into a vat of molten metal at the same facility.
As a whole, Scott’s film leaves the viewer interested in history none the wiser for the experience.
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear declared a State of Emergency with a half-mile evacuation zone implemented.
Ford Chicago workers spoke from the picket lines, demanding an all-out strike to win what they’re fighting for, including massive wage increases, COLA, pensions and more.
