Auto Workers Issues
Sweden: Unions promote nationalism over Saab
By Jordan Shilton, March 3, 2009
Sweden’s trade unions have organised a campaign for state aid to rescue the ailing carmaker Saab.
“A war waged by the rich against the poor”
Ford workers oppose new concessions
By Tim Tower, March 2, 2009
Workers at Ford Motor Company attended informational meetings and votes this weekend on proposals by the United Auto Workers (UAW) to impose new concessions. Workers speaking to the WSWS expressed the...
British auto union leaders claim it couldn't happen in Germany
By Richard Tyler, February 28, 2009
Like their British counterparts, temporary workers in the German auto industry are among the hardest hit by the recession.
Germany: Union leaders call on workers to sacrifice to rescue Opel
By Helmut Arens, February 28, 2009
The IG Metall and the works councils at Opel organised a European day of action on Thursday. The cynical manoeuvre provided a platform for the union leaders to advance a plan to divide US and European...
Day of action at Opel in Germany
The poison of trade union nationalism
February 28, 2009
The rallies organised in Germany by IG Metall and the European works councils at Opel on Thursday had nothing to do with the defence of jobs. Instead, they were an opportunity for the trade union lead...
Britain: An opportunist defence of the union betrayal at BMW Cowley
By Niall Green, February 26, 2009
The Socialist Unity web site has come out in defense of the trade union’s complicity in the mass sackings at BMW, Oxford.
Reject UAW sellout at Ford! Mobilize autoworkers to defend jobs and living standards!
February 26, 2009
Ford workers should reject the sellout agreement negotiated by the United Auto Workers union and fight to mobilize the strength of all autoworkers against the attack on jobs, living standards and wor...
Canada: CAW vows to match UAW concessions to automakers
By Carl Bronski, February 25, 2009
Following in the footsteps of the US government, Canada’s Conservative government is making any aid to the automakers conditional on the companies reducing their labour costs to those of the non-uni...
White House weighs bankruptcy in attack on GM, Chrysler workers
By Jerry White, February 25, 2009
The White House is reviewing several scenarios, including a government supervised bankruptcy of General Motors and Chrysler, to carry out an unprecedented attack on autoworkers’ jobs, wages and pens...
Layoffs at GM Lordstown plant ravage Ohio communities
By Samuel Davidson, February 23, 2009
General Motors recently announced plans to eliminate the second shift at its Lordstown, Ohio, complex in April, laying off 800 workers. This will slash the workforce from 4,000, last summer, to less t...
Video: GM workers denounce concession demands
February 21, 2009
Workers at the General Motors Truck and Bus plant in Pontiac, Michigan, denounced the pay cuts and concessions which are being demanded by the Obama administration as the condition for government loan...
General Motors workers speak out against pay cuts
By Andre Damon, February 21, 2009
The World Socialist Web Site spoke to autoworkers in Michigan as the Obama administration auto task force held its first meeting.
