Auto Workers Issues
Reject CAW sellout at Chrysler! Mobilize autoworkers across North America to defend all jobs and oppose all concessions!
By Socialist Equality Party (Canada), March 27, 2009
If Chrysler workers are not to be blackmailed into paying for the losses of the Detroit Three, they must reject the nationalist and pro-capitalist perspective of the CAW and fight to mobilize the stre...
The Opel crisis fuels divisions in Germany’s coalition government
By Ulrich Rippert, March 26, 2009
At the heart of the disputes inside the German coalition government is how to deal with the consequences of the international financial and economic crisis.
Autoworkers end factory occupation in Windsor, Ontario
By Tom Eley, March 20, 2009
On Thursday, 90 autoworkers ended their occupation and blockade of two Chrysler supplier plants in Windsor, Ontario.
Auto parts workers occupy closed plant in Windsor, Canada
CAW moves to block broader struggle against layoffs
By Jerry White, March 19, 2009
Workers at the Aradco factory in Windsor, Canada, seized control of the auto parts plant Tuesday, a week after its parent company, Catalina Precision Products, shut it down, throwing 90 workers out of...
Britain: Unions agree cuts in hours and pay at Toyota
By Robert Stevens, March 17, 2009
Toyota and the Unite trade union have agreed to a 10 percent cut in hours and pay.
Chrysler Canada rejects GM-CAW “pattern,” demands even greater concessions
By Carl Bronski, March 14, 2009
Chrysler has demanded that Chrysler Canada workers make even greater concessions than those the Canadian Auto Workers union recently negotiated with GM and threatened to shut down the company’s Cana...
German union officials propose double-digit wage cuts for Opel-GM workers
By Ulrich Rippert, March 11, 2009
The chairman of the shop stewards committee at the Opel factory in Eisenach declared that a double-digit pay cut for workers at the plant was entirely feasible.
Ford concessions contract ratified with 40 percent voting “no”
By Jerry White, March 11, 2009
More than 40 percent of Ford workers voted to reject the concessions agreement accepted by the United Auto Workers union that slashes pay, reduces break time and guts benefits for 42,000 active worker...
Oppose Canadian Auto Workers surrender to GM
Fight all concessions and job cuts!
By Keith Jones, March 10, 2009
The Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union is joining hands with the Detroit Three, Canada’s hard-right Conservative government and the Ontario Liberal regime of Dalton McGuinty to impose further massive...
Ford workers: “Now the fight is with our own union.”
March 6, 2009
A WSWS reporting team speaks to Ford workers during the vote on the concessionary contract amendment supported by the union. The vote, under conditions of an historic crisis in the auto industry, is a...
The collapse of General Motors
By Jerry White, March 6, 2009
A report from the auditing firm Deloitte & Touche issued on Thursday confirmed that General Motors, up until recently the world’s largest automaker, is unable to pay its bills and on the brink of ba...
Worker opposition to Ford-UAW agreement reflected in votes
By Lawrence Porter, March 6, 2009
The contract amendment pushed by the UAW, which aims to “save” Ford at the expense of its workers and provide a model for concessions at GM and Chrysler, has been met with significant worker oppos...
