Arconic aluminum workers in the US erupted in disbelief and anger Wednesday night after the United Steelworkers union claimed that a new four-year contract had been ratified, despite widespread opposition in the run-up to the vote.
We want to hear from you: What do you think of the contract, and the USW’s claims it was ratified? What are workers saying at your factory should be done?
The sellout deal, praised by both company and USW spokesmen, would result in workers earning less in real terms by the end of the four-year contract than they do now.
The number of steelworkers in the US has fallen by 65 percent since 1979 yet the assets of the United Steelworkers have simultaneously soared, having risen six-fold since 2000 to surpass $1.5 billion.
In an appeal on the official USW website, the union calls for support to Trade Union of the Metalworkers and Miners of Ukraine, an organization with ties to the far right and fascists.
The WSWS and the Socialist Equality Group in Brazil demand the immediate reinstatement of the rank-and-file commission and all fired workers at CSN.
CSN workers joined a growing strike movement in Brazil and around the word, walking off the job to demand higher salaries and bonuses.
The wildcat strike of metalworkers at the Çimsataş factory in Mersin has been ended as a result of management-union collaboration.
The World Socialist Web Site is assisting steelworkers in the building of a network of interconnected rank-and-file committees, connected with educators, autoworkers, Amazon workers, and workers in other key sections of industry.
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The rebuke by ATI workers, who fought militant battles in 2015-16 and 2021, is a sign of growing militancy in the working class.
The facility’s 1,500 direct employees are owed a total of $189.7 million, including annual leave and redundancy entitlements.
United Steelworkers leaders are determine to prevent a strike that would cut across their collaboration with Trump's trade war measures
The carefully orchestrated state-federal operation reflects the strategic importance of the 60-year-old facility to the Australian ruling class, amid escalating plans for war against China.
The way forward for health workers and public health in Turkey and around the world is through the struggle for socialism, i.e. the organisation of the economy according to the needs of society, not private profit.
In opposing the deal on “national security” grounds, the Biden White House and the unions have aligned with Trump’s “America First” nationalism.
The metalworkers defending their right to strike and the millions of others demanding a decent minimum wage must be mobilized on the basis of a programme of struggle against war and genocide and in defence of democratic rights.
Contrary to the way it is being presented by IG Metall and the works council officials, state intervention would serve to re-militarise Germany and not save steelworkers’ jobs.
The IG Metall trade union has made clear it will support the planned attacks—provided, as with the cutbacks of recent decades, plant closures and compulsory redundancies are ruled out.
The explosion in Tlaxcala was no “accident” but social murder driven by a deliberate policy of pursuing corporate and national “competitiveness” by downgrading safety and working conditions.
This looming defeat for workers without any fight organised by the unions illustrates how the union bureaucracy operates as an arm of management and the government to suppress the class struggle.
Steelworkers at Thyssenkrup must break the control of the corrupt trade union apparatus and its mafia-like company structures and take the defence of jobs into their own hands.
The 52-day strike at the multinational Indian-owned company ArcelorMittal has caused major losses in production and disruption across numerous industries in North America.
Action had been planned against Tata Steel UK’s plans to cut 2,800 jobs at the plants in Port Talbot and Llanwern, South Wales, announced last September.
The fight against job cuts must be combined with the fight against war. This is only possible against IG Metall, not with it.
With the collaboration of the unions, workers are being forced to shoulder the cost of the failed repairs, which are now expected to take at least another month.
Several thousand steelworkers demonstrated in front of the main Thyssenkrupp plant in the north of Duisburg. IG Metall brought them there from all Thyssenkrupp sites in North Rhine-Westphalia and from Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann in the south of Duisburg.
Even if industrial action is called, this will be of a token character with no call for support from other steelworkers in Britain, Europe and internationally. And without such an appeal workers will continue to be played off against one another in an endless race to the bottom.
Confronted with the loss of thousands of jobs, 10,000 steel workers from Thyssenkrupp and HKM are holding a joint works meeting on April 30 in Duisburg.
Embracing trade war measures even more provocative than those of Trump, the Democratic president appeared before an enthusiastic audience of United Steelworkers union bureaucrats in Pittsburgh.
