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Mancilla, a former official from the Harvard grad student union, is attempting to get out in front of the anti-war sentiment. He played a leading role in passing a UAW ceasefire resolution in December. But that remained a dead letter, and the UAW endorsed Biden only weeks later, with Mancilla in attendance.
Workers are demanding answers after the sudden death of the 46-year-old worker at Ford's Dearborn Truck Plant.
The impact of the mass layoffs and firings by Stellantis and other Detroit automakers have further undermined conditions in the factories via overwork and job overloading.
Students have taken a courageous stand. But their actions anticipate an even more powerful movement in the working class. The issues they have raised cannot be resolved on the campuses, but rather in the factories, warehouses, railroads and docks.
Workers want to join the walkout, but we have to develop the means to overrule the biggest strikebreakers of all—Fain and the rest of the UAW bureaucracy.
In every sector, in the US and in other countries, the union apparatuses are completely committed to suppressing workers’ opposition and preventing a unified struggle.
The official total reported for the assets of the UAW strike fund is a gross understatement of the financial wealth controlled by the union apparatus.
Judging by the response of the UAW bureaucracy and corporate media to Joe Biden’s brief visit to a UAW picket line in Michigan Tuesday, the president and former Delaware senator has transformed himself overnight from a longtime representative of the corporations into the greatest champion of the working class since Karl Marx himself.
What is being prepared is not a contract, it is a death warrant for hundreds of thousands of auto jobs in North America and millions around the world.
Fraser, who was president of the United Auto Workers union from 1977 to 1983, oversaw the destruction of 57,000 Chrysler jobs and cuts in annual wages of the equivalent of nearly $40,000 per worker in today’s terms.
If the UAW bureaucracy retains control over the contract process, it will once again be led to defeat. But if workers organize themselves and take the reins of their fight, the immense strength of the working class can be unleashed.
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The fact that Biden issued such a statement testifies to the extraordinary seriousness with which the government takes the credibility of the pro-war, pro-corporate union bureaucracy.
William Lehman, the Pennsylvania Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate for UAW president in last year’s election, issued the following statement defending the Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka.
The video posted Sunday calls for the working class to intervene and stop Israel’s murderous assault on Palestinians in Gaza.
Any serious examination of the UAW contracts’ terms reveal that they are a continuation of the corporations’ class war against workers.
The unions are seeking to divide North American auto workers, facilitating moves by the companies to offset the impact of any strike action.
The AFL-CIO and US government imposed a so-called “independent” union at the GM Silao factory that has acted no differently from the corrupt charro unions, according to six workers used in the process and then “thrown into the trash.”
Deeply stirred by the accident, active and former workers of the Silao plant reached out to the World Socialist Web Site to register their anger, describe safety concerns and condemn the new and so-called Independent Union (SINTTIA) for its bankrupt response.
A year after wildcat strikes involving 70,000 workers, the maquiladora workers in Matamoros are leading the fight against the dangers workers face from Covid-19.
The claim that the victory of SINTTIA in the vote by Silao workers represents at step forward is belied by the support it received from the corrupt, pro-management US union bureaucracy and the Biden administration.
During the first weeks of 2019, tens of thousands of striking workers brought to a halt virtually all the maquiladora manufacturing plants in the industrial Mexican city of Matamoros, just across the US border with Brownsville, Texas.
In a remarkable display of class unity and power, workers defied threats of retribution and violence from companies, union thugs, police and the military, and shut down a significant section of the closely-interconnected supply chain in North America.
Key to organizing their struggles across different companies and sectors was the formation of rank-and-file strike committees. Daily reports by the World Socialist Web Site played an important role in guiding the struggle and winning broader support.
In 2012, a management-provoked incident at the Maruti Suzuki Manesar auto factory outside of Delhi, India, was used as the pretext for the mass prosecution and frame-up of autoworkers, with 13 sentenced to life.
