The shuttering of the more than 50-year-old plant is part of a broader attack on jobs across the industry, including nearly 2,500 cuts at Stellantis’s Warren Truck plant near Detroit.
No attempts were made by management or the UAW to account for employees even though four different fire departments responded to the emergency.
Dana Corporation auto parts workers announce the formation of a rank-and-file committee in Pennsylvania to link their struggles with other workers at the company and throughout the globe.
Dana workers at the auto parts maker’s oldest facility in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, reached out to the WSWS to discuss the abuses and low pay at the profitable corporation.
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At every point during the current long-running contract struggle, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers’ leadership has made decisions designed to put workers in the worst possible position to wage their fight to defend secure jobs and public services, and exert control over the use of AI and new technologies.
Volvo Group’s decision to lay off nearly 1,000 workers is part of the global attack on the jobs, wages and conditions of the working class. These attacks must be resisted!
The meeting discussed the program from the Committee’s recent statement in response to the appointment of David Steiner, a member of the Fedex Board of Directors, as new Postmaster General, and took reports from postal workers around the world.
We are running in the staff council elections to free us from the straitjacket of the Verdi (Public Service workers trade union) and build genuine rank and file resistance.
