Co-worker demands answers about death of Ronnie Adams at Stellantis Dundee Engine Complex
More than two weeks since the fatal accident, the company, UAW and state safety agencies have not released any new information.
•Jerry White
Jerry White
Jerry White is the Labor Editor of the World Socialist Web Site and has been a member of the Trotskyist movement since 1979.
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Mack Trucks layoffs and the fight for the international unity of workers against trade war
Workers need an international strategy to fight against Trump's trade war measures, which are already causing mass layoffs throughout North America.
•Jerry White
Citing tariffs, Volvo North America cutting 800 jobs at Mack Truck and NRV plants
The company has cited “market uncertainty about freight rates and demand, possible regulatory changes, and the impact of tariffs” as key reasons for the layoffs.
•Jerry White, Nick Barrickman
Trump administration threatens to deport half million immigrant workers, who entered US legally
A federal judge has temporarily halted the revoking of deportation protections for 532,000 Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan immigrants.
•Jane Wise, Jerry White
“Safety was out the door!”: Former co-worker details conditions behind death of Stellantis worker Ronnie Adams
The following letter was sent to the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter on unsafe conditions at the Stellantis engine plant in Dundee, Michigan, and the collusion of United Auto Workers officials with management.
•Jerry White
Chicago Teachers Union, Democrats push through 4-year deal by concealing coming cuts
Large sections of educators had no confidence that the Chicago Teachers Union would bring back a better deal, let alone lead a fight against Trump.
•Jerry White
Mounting opposition from Chicago teachers to CTU sellout, as contract voting continues
Despite assurances by the Chicago Teachers Union that the deal will “Trump-proof” the district, teachers worry about severe budget cuts planned by city officials and the White House.
•Jerry White, Kristina Betinis
Chicago teachers want fight to defend public education as CTU, Democrats move to impose Trump budget cuts
A strike by 28,000 teachers in one of America’s largest school districts would be a catalyst for a broader, nationwide fight against Trump’s savage cuts.
•Jerry White
Stellantis worker crushed to death at Dundee, Michigan engine plant
Sixty-two-year-old skilled tradesman Ronnie Adams was crushed by a motorized arm on an assembly machine he was working on.
•Jerry White
As Trump’s tariffs take effect Stellantis announces thousands of layoffs in Canada, Mexico and US
Stellantis will “temporarily” idle its Windsor Assembly Plant in Canada and Toluca Assembly Plant in Mexico. About 4,500 workers in Windsor will be impacted. Some 2,600 are employed at the Toluca facility.
•Logan Buchko, Shannon Jones, Jerry White
What the UAW’s 2024 financial filing says about Fain’s “union reform”
During a year in which workers saw their living standards devastated by inflation and thousands of UAW members lost their jobs, the army of UAW bureaucrats in the union’s Detroit national headquarters had a prosperous 2024.
•Jerry White
Detroit autoworkers call for Mahmoud Khalil’s release and fight to defend free speech
Workers at the Dana auto parts plant in Warren, Michigan denounced Trump’s efforts to deport the Columbia University graduate and Palestinian activist.
•Jerry White
9 lies in the UAW contract “highlights” for Indianapolis Rolls-Royce workers
With a ratification vote scheduled for Wednesday, new information has emerged refuting UAW claims that it won the “best contract in 25 years.”
•George Kirby, Jerry White
Opposition of educators grows to Trump’s existential threat to public education
In contrast to the union bureaucracy, rank-and-file educators are pressing for collective action to halt the shutdown of the Department of Education and gutting of school programs.
•Jerry White
Walkout by Detroit high school students against anti-immigrant witch hunt
Students at Detroit's Western International High School walked out as protests against ICE raids and deportations continued across the US.
•Jerry White
Anger erupts as Stellantis workers told profit-sharing checks will be cut by 73 percent
Stellantis workers learned this week that their profit sharing checks for 2024, before taxes, will be $3,780 compared to $13,860 the previous year.
•Shannon Jones, Jerry White
A discussion with a resident physician on the fight to unionize doctors in training at the Detroit Medical Center
Resident physicians, interns and medical fellows routinely work 80-hour weeks for $15 or less an hour.
•Jerry White
Ford targets historic Rouge complex for police raid with complicity of UAW officials
Neither Ford nor the UAW President Shawn Fain have any official statements on the police raids or details about the highly secretive operations of Ford’s Global Security Task Force, which is directing them.
•Tim Rivers, Jerry White
Outpouring of public sympathy at Detroit funeral for homeless children who froze to death
Hundreds of workers and young people turned out for the funeral of nine-year-old Darnell Currie and two-year-old Amillah Currie in Detroit on Thursday, in an outpouring of public sympathy for the two homeless children who froze to death sheltering in a van parked in a casino garage.
•Jerry White, Larry Porter
Bursting of century-old water main floods Detroit neighborhood
With wind-chill temperatures near zero, residents were forced to evacuate as first responders used boats, rafts and diving equipment to rescue those trapped by the rising water and ice.
•Jerry White, Phyllis Steele