Dakkota workers denounce Detroit plant closure: “They don’t care about us”
Workers rejected the company’s official explanation and said Dakkota owner Andra Rush wanted to replace the current workforce with cheaper non-union labor.
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Bradford White strikers reject third sellout deal by nearly 62 percent
This was a vote of no confidence in the conduct of the strike by the UAW, which has worked with management to impose concessions through open threats.
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Mexican government and VW's “independent” union seek to impose third tentative agreement after six strike deadlines
The Sheinbaum government’s labor authorities have publicly praised Volkswagen and the SITIAVW for overriding two “no” votes.
Andrea Lobo•
Payoff for the capitalists, layoff for the workers
General Motors announces $20 billion share buyback for Wall Street, while closing Brownstown battery plant
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain responded to the buyback with a florid denunciation of “legalized mass looting,” designed to conceal the UAW bureaucracy's concessions that have made this looting possible.
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Report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party
The global eruption of the class struggle and the rebellion against the union bureaucracies
We are publishing here the report delivered by Tom Hall to the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held August 2–7, 2026, introducing the fourth resolution, “On the international class struggle and the building of the IWA-RFC.”
Tom Hall•
Stellantis worker James Brasher killed on the job—the fourth death under the UAW’s “historic” 2023 contract
Brasher is the third Stellantis worker and at least the sixteenth UAW member killed on the job since 2022.
Jerry White•
1 year since the IWA-RFC hearing on the death of Ronald Adams Sr.: MIOSHA still silent as industrial toll mounts
On July 27, 2025, the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) presented its initial findings of its independent investigation into the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.
Jerry White•
One year since the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.: Family demands answers as MIOSHA investigation blocked
One year ago today, 63-year-old machine repairman Ronald Adams Sr. was crushed to death at the Stellantis Dundee Engine Complex in Southeast Michigan.
Jerry White•
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Evan Blake•
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Dakkota workers denounce Detroit plant closure: “They don’t care about us”
Workers rejected the company’s official explanation and said Dakkota owner Andra Rush wanted to replace the current workforce with cheaper non-union labor.
Jerry White•
Autoworkers on UAW election: “Workers have no faith or trust in the UAW anymore”
There was a mass repudiation of the UAW apparatus in the recent election with 90 percent of eligible members not voting.
Sheila Brehm, Jerry White•
After the UAW election debacle: We must build rank-and-file committees and take power on the shop floor!
This statement was issued by Will Lehman, a rank-and-file worker at Mack Trucks in Macungie, Pennsylvania who ran for president of the UAW in the recently-concluded elections.
Will Lehman•
Saginaw and Detroit autoworkers discuss outcome of UAW election: “Every dictator claims the people are behind them”
Michigan autoworkers discussed the massive boycott of the UAW elections, which reinstalled Shawn Fain with the backing of only 6 percent of eligible voters.
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Tom Hall•
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Mexican autoworkers kept in the dark on looming US-Canadian auto strike
The unions are seeking to divide North American auto workers, facilitating moves by the companies to offset the impact of any strike action.
Andrea Lobo•
Workers at GM plant in Silao, Mexico: US-sponsored union “destroyed our independence”
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.”
Andrea Lobo•
GM workers in Silao, Mexico speak out after co-worker loses his leg
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.
Andrea Lobo•
“If we had not struck, the union would have done nothing”
Thousands walk out in Matamoros as Mexican government lets corporations continue production during pandemic
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.
Andrea Lobo•
US-backed SINTTIA union wins representation as workers at Silao, Mexico GM plant vote out CTM
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.
Shannon Jones•
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.
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