Outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported 172,017 job cuts in February, the highest monthly total since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
Despite Stellantis rescinding its threat to lay off 1,134 workers at the Jeep complex in Toledo, the looming threat of tariffs and trade war presages a renewed attack on auto jobs.
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.
The number of retail store closures is expected to double this year to 15,000, with workers struggling with inflation, stagnating wages and record credit card debt.
The fraternal and humane sentiments expressed in the Instagram post received a significant and very positive response from both Canadians and Americans.
Events of the last week show that the recent police sweep at Ford Michigan Assembly was the launch of what can only be described as a police state crackdown against autoworkers.
The cuts are an unprecedented assault not just on federal workers, but the millions who depend on the vital services they perform, such as healthcare, environmental protection, and social support.
The UAW has thrown its backing behind a security crackdown at Ford factories, including bag searches and the stationing of plainclothes officers, amid a mounting social and political crisis in the US
The UAW reported Saturday that the 400 workers at the Daimler Truck Detroit Axle plant had voted to ratify a new agreement while releasing scant details of the contract.
That the continuing significant upturn in strike activity has led to zero growth in union membership is an indictment of the right wing character of the corporatist US trade unions.
In the final days of the Biden presidency the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed filed a pair of significant anti-discrimination lawsuits.
The 204 ski patrollers at Park City Mountain resort are demanding a $2 an hour wage increase.
The UAW has been forcing laid-off Stellantis workers in Kokomo to work at the new battery plant, where workers face low pay, multiple safety hazards and a host of uncertainties.
The Rivian deal explicitly ties the interests of the UAW apparatus to the profit interests of the company’s wealthy shareholders.
The 250 striking workers were given just 48-hours notice to vote on a lengthy seven-year contract that failed to meet their key demands.
The Democratic Whitmer administration has handed out over $2 billion in incentives to automakers and other business since 2021, however, few if any jobs have resulted.
The UAW has withdrawn its grievances against Stellantis and postponed any further strike votes or talk of strikes related to job cuts until sometime in 2025.
A court ruling dismissing an anti-trust action by the state has cleared the way for Anchor Hocking to close its glass-making operation in Charleroi, eliminating the jobs of 330 workers.
With layoffs mounting across the auto industry, Stellantis workers told the WSWS they are ready for a fight back.
