World Socialist Web Site
Enter email address
to receive news
about the WSWS


Add
Remove
SEARCH WSWS


ON THE WSWS
Donate to
the WSWS!


RSS Feed News Feed
Contact the
WSWS

Editorial Board
New Today
News & Analysis
Workers Struggles

Arts Review
History
Science
Polemics
Philosophy
Correspondence
Archive
About WSWS
About the ICFI
Help
Books Online

OTHER
LANGUAGES

German

French
Italian
Russian
Polish
Czech
Serbo-Croatian
Spanish
Portuguese
Turkish
Sinhala-
Tamil
Indonesian

LEAFLETS
Download in
PDF format

 
WSWS : Workers Struggles : North America
 
The 1998 General Motors Strike

     

11 August 1998
Western New York hit by spin-off of General Motors' parts division

4 August 1998
GM to sell off parts unit

3 August 1998
After the defeat of the GM strike:
What way forward for auto workers?

1 August 1998
GM says US auto union gave blanket no-strike pledge

30 July 1998
US auto union ends strike on GM's terms

29 July 1998
UAW abandons jobs fight at General Motors

28 July 1998
Settlement near in GM strike

25 July 1998
The meaning of Greenspan's testimony
Wall Street demands GM victory in strike

24 July 1998
Canadian Auto Workers official denounces GM strike

23 July 1998
Court to moniter arbitration in US auto strike

21 July 1998
Overwhelming vote for strike at Saturn
Auto workers turn away from GM-UAW collaboration

17 July 1998
Court threat to General Motors strike

15 July 1998
GM files suit against Flint strike

14 July 1998
GM throws down the gauntlet to auto workers

10 July 1998
Wall Street wants settlement that facilitates GM downsizing

9 July 1998
Talks intensify to end GM strikes

8 July 1998
GM presses ahead with restructuring plans

Discussions with General Motors strikers in Flint, Michigan
Workers grapple with the impact of globalization

3 July 1998
GM plans to bypass struck plants and resume production of key models

2 July 1998
GM workers at Ohio brake plants vote to authorize strike

30 June 1998
Walkout at General Motors enters fourth week
GM's hard line staggers
United Auto Workers officials

26 June 1998
GM prepares for long strike

23 June 1998
UAW convention opens as impact of GM strike widens

20 June 1998
Clinton calls for end to GM strike

19 June 1998
GM official threatens to slash more US jobs

17 June 1998
Strikes threaten to halt
GM's North American operations

16 June 1998
Flint strikes force GM to idle more plants
Global changes in auto industry
underlie struggle over jobs

11 June 1998
Metal Center strike in sixth day
New General Motors strike threat in Flint

10 June 1998
Strike at GM parts factory shuts assembly plants

US courts back General Motors' reduction of retiree benefits

9 June 1998
Michigan strike causes parts shortage for General Motors

7 June 1998
Auto workers strike key GM metal fabricating plant

 

Interviews and letters from workers on
the GM strike

11 August 1998
General Motors worker discusses the Flint strikes

28 July 1998
Argentine workers launch GM solidarity campaign

25 July 1998
Mexican auto worker:
"I would like to help the GM workers win"

22 July 1998
Letter to GM strikers from an Australian car worker
"The unions use nationalism to divide the workers"

22 July 1998
British GM workers speak on US strike, working conditions

22 July 1998
A Toyota worker in Australia
"There should be equal opportunity around the world"

10 July 1998
GM worker from upstate New York
"Management and the union have been squeezing more and more out of the workers"

7 July 1998
Worker at GM in Australia
"US strike is a warning of what will happen here"

7 July 1998
GM worker in Syracuse
"The UAW cannot serve both the membership and the corporation"

4 July 1998
Letter from a GM worker
"We, the workers, have no voice in the union or in management decisions."

2 July 1998
GM worker reviews the experiences of three decades
How the auto industry and the UAW have changed

30 June 1998
Australian car workers speak on GM strike

23 June 1998
Dayton GM workers critical of UAW leaders

Other letters on
the GM strike

3 July 1998
Correspondence from readers on the GM strike

16 July 1998
The GM strike, globalization and the UAW
Letters from strikers and other readers

28 July 1998
Letters on the struggle of the auto workers
Replies to critics
of the GM strike

31 July 1998
More letters on the GM strike

 

Top of page

The WSWS invites your comments.



Copyright 1998-2008
World Socialist Web Site
All rights reserved