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.
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 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
Ford plans to stop building its F-150 Lightning at its REV-C facility in Dearborn, Michigan from mid-November through the end of the year.
Tuesday marks five months since the tragic death of Tywaun Long at the Ford Rouge Dearborn Truck Plant on April 17, 2024, at the age of 46.
The rupturing of a large water pipe at the Ford Dearborn Truck Plant Monday by a forklift is only the latest in a series of safety incidents underlining the miserable conditions that have developed at the Rouge complex in the wake of the 2023 sellout contract negotiated by UAW President Shawn Fain.
Workers are demanding answers after the sudden death of the 46-year-old worker at Ford's Dearborn Truck Plant.
An autoworker died after suffering a medical emergency after waiting a half hour for medical help at the Ford Rouge complex outside Detroit.
Following the layoff of 1,400 at the Ford Rouge complex, the UAW is holding a cynical "Going Away Party" for the terminated workers.
Workers at the Ford Rouge complex speak out on job cuts and the impact on workers’ lives.
Police were called to the picket line at Constellium Automotive in Van Buren Township south of Detroit last Thursday to escort scab trucks in and out of the factory that supplies the flagship Ford plants producing F-series pickups and the new electric Lightning trucks.
On Wednesday, 160 Constellium workers in suburban Detroit launched a strike to demand improved health and safety conditions and wage increases to compensate for the soaring cost of living.
The outbreak of the campus strikes in New Jersey and Illinois threatens to break through the isolation imposed by the AFT bureaucracy and its local enforcers on the strike by U-M grad student instructors. This makes all the more sinister the promotion by the GEO leadership at U-M, dominated by the DSA, of the phony “reform” wing of the United Auto Workers bureaucracy headed by newly installed UAW president Shawn Fain.
Workers at the Kentucky Truck Plant and Louisville Assembly Plant expressed disgust with the sham runoff election and support for Will Lehman's fight to transfer power to rank-and-file workers.
Ford workers in Kentucky expressed strong support for Will Lehman's protest over voter suppression by the UAW bureaucracy.
Supporters of the IYSSE are campaigning at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan to build support among students and youth for a mass movement to stop the war in Ukraine.
On Tuesday afternoon, a UAW bargaining committee memo landed like a bombshell on the shop floors at Daimler/Freightliner Truck plants in Gaston County, North Carolina.
Campaigners for Lehman distributed thousands of leaflets across plants in the Midwest and Appalachian states last week, encountering widespread anger among workers over their conditions.
Many workers at shift change said they had learned about the campaign already and were in support of it. “I’m getting the texts, and I’m planning to vote for him,” was a common refrain.
Autoworkers from GM Flint Assembly reacted angrily to attempts by United Auto Workers officials to block their discussions with UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman.
