Auto Workers Issues
Major banks made whole in GM bankruptcy
By Tom Eley, June 17, 2009
While the Obama administration has used GM’s bankruptcy to force plant closings, layoffs, wage and benefit cuts, sacrifices in working conditions, and the forced closure of thousands of auto dealers...
Britain: Van maker LDV sacks more than 800 workers
By Robert Stevens, June 16, 2009
Last week, administrators PriceWaterhouseCoopers announced that nearly all 850 workers employed by the Birmingham-based van maker LDV are to be made redundant.
LDV workers: “80 percent of the lads here think the union is a waste of time”
By Robert Stevens, June 16, 2009
World Socialist Web Site reporters spoke to redundant LDV workers attending advice sessions.
Flint, Michigan and the bankruptcy of General Motors
By Jerry White, June 13, 2009
Jerry White reports for the World Socialist Web Site from Flint, Michigan. He speaks to workers and youth about the conditions in the once-thriving auto city.
GM plant closures devastate Detroit suburbs
By Jerry White, June 8, 2009
The northern Detroit suburbs of Oakland County, Michigan, will be particularly hard hit by the General Motors bankruptcy and restructuring plan. The area will lose 6,600 of the 9,000 jobs being cut in...
The Opel fraud
Opel: Magna deal means layoffs, wage cuts and splitting of the European workforce
By Dietmar Henning, June 6, 2009
The German government, the IG Metall trade union and company works councils are attempting to portray the deal struck by General Motors, Magna and the Russian state bank Sberbank as a success, althoug...
Sweden: Saab granted three-month extension in bankruptcy protection
By Jordan Shilton, June 5, 2009
A local judge has given Swedish automaker Saab a further three months protection from creditors, as it seeks to find a buyer.
Michigan auto workers and families speak on plant closures
June 4, 2009
General Motors workers from Pontiac and Lake Orion, Michigan, two northern suburbs of Detroit, spoke to reporters from the World Socialist Web Site about the impact on their families and communities o...
Obama offers nothing to states, cities devastated by GM plant closures
By Tom Eley, June 3, 2009
The Obama administration has made clear that laid-off auto workers and the cities and states devastated by the bankruptcy of General Motors—a bankruptcy forced by Obama’s Auto Task Force—will be...
India: Hyundai Motors victimizes workers
By M. Kailasam, June 2, 2009
Hyundai Motors India Ltd., the country’s second-largest car maker, has reneged on a deal to take back workers it had victimized for their role in a union organizing drive at its plant in Sriperumbad...
The GM bankruptcy
By Jerry White, June 1, 2009
General Motors—once the largest and most profitable corporation in the world—will file for bankruptcy protection this morning. The bankruptcy of what was long the iconic symbol of the power of Ame...
Wall Street throws General Motors into bankruptcy
By Jerry White, May 29, 2009
The events of the past few days have demonstrated the naked class interests behind the Obama administration’s “restructuring” of the auto industry and its plan to throw General Motors into bankr...
