The 2019 GM strike
After secret meeting with CEO Mary Barra, UAW moving to shut down GM strike
By
Jerry White,
11 October 2019
The meeting with Barra takes place as the UAW continues to isolate the strike by 48,000 GM workers and tries to wear down opposition to another pro-company deal.
Who is UAW Vice President Terry Dittes?
By
Shannon Jones,
11 October 2019
There is nothing in the biography of Dittes that suggests that this longtime UAW bureaucrat is anything but a loyal hand raiser for the corrupt Solidarity House bureaucracy.
UAW promoting anti-Mexican nationalism to isolate and defeat GM strike
By
Tom Hall,
10 October 2019
The UAW’s response to the stand taken by Mexican workers in defense of US strikers is to demand Mexican workers be fired, supposedly to “save” American jobs.
GM tightens screws on UAW with threat to close joint training center
By
Shannon Jones and Jerry White,
10 October 2019
The threat to cut off the flow of cash through the UAW-GM Center for Human Resources, is a message to union officials that they must quickly shut down the strike and impose Wall Street’s demands.
UAW keeps GM contract proposal secret from workers at company’s request
By
Eric London,
9 October 2019
The UAW is keeping workers in the dark as the strike has forced furloughs or layoffs of at least 150,000 workers across the auto industry.
Expand the strike to Ford and FCA!
The GM strike is a fight against the entire ruling class
By
Eric London,
8 October 2019
The outcome of the strike will determine conditions of life for millions of workers across not just the auto industry, but all workplaces for years to come.
“We should all be out”
Growing call for industrywide strike to back GM workers
By
Jerry White,
8 October 2019
Workers at Fiat Chrysler’s Sterling Heights Assembly Plant denounced the UAW for isolating GM workers and called for an all-out strike by GM, Ford and Fiat Chrysler workers.
As strike enters fourth week, UAW says talks with GM have “taken turn for the worse”
By
Jerry White,
7 October 2019
The hard line by GM proves that the UAW is leading the strike to defeat and makes clear that workers must respond by expanding the struggle to Ford and Fiat Chrysler.
“Capitalism is the core of the problem:” Striking GM workers call for global struggle against auto companies
By
Tim Rivers and Tom Hall,
7 October 2019
GM workers on the picket discussed the need for an international strategy for the expansion of their strike with the World Socialist Web Site Autoworker Newsletter this weekend.
GM strike in danger of union-enforced defeat as UAW announces ‘good progress’ on temps, health care
By
Tom Hall,
5 October 2019
The United Auto Workers (UAW) and General Motors are making “good progress” towards an agreement, UAW Vice President for GM Terry Dittes said in a letter published Friday evening.
Behind the GM strike: Wall Street wants temps for hi-tech vehicles and the UAW agrees
By
Jerry White,
5 October 2019
Striking workers are resisting Wall Street’s demands for “more flexible manufacturing systems” to build electric and self-driving cars, including lower-paid temporary workers that the UAW has already agreed to.
GM shuts down Silao complex in Mexico as workers’ rebellion brews
By
Andrea Lobo,
4 October 2019
The decision to close Silao was likely aimed at preempting a simmering rebellion by workers who are making appeals for a joint struggle with US strikers.
GM strike at the crossroads
UAW preparing sell-out contract as workers fight to expand the struggle
By
the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter,
4 October 2019
The alternative to the conspiracy of GM and the UAW is for workers to form rank-and-file factory committees, extend the strike to Ford and Fiat Chrysler and mobilize the entire working class.
UAW prepares to sell out GM strike, as new corruption revelations emerge
By
Marcus Day,
3 October 2019
The UAW and GM are putting the finishing touches on their plan to sell their concessions deal.
GM Mexico fires another Silao worker backing US strike and shuts down the plant
By
Andrea Lobo,
2 October 2019
The firings as well as the shutdown at the GM Silao Complex further demonstrate the common fate of workers across the border and the international character of the working class.
General Motors presses demands as UAW leaves workers in the dark, isolates strike
By
Shannon Jones,
2 October 2019
According to a statement, the UAW rejected a contract proposal from GM without indicating the content of management’s offer or revealing the terms of the union’s counterproposal.
“The CEOs and Wall Street are trying to take your wages and benefits… Don’t Give in. Stand your ground!”
Detroit college students support striking GM workers
By
Genevieve Leigh,
2 October 2019
Students at Detroit’s Wayne State University discussed the fight of General Motors workers and the strategy needed for them to win their historic strike.
As Wall Street bankrolls GM, UAW tries to starve strikers into submission
By
Jerry White,
2 October 2019
Although the strike has won popular support and hit the company’s bottom line, it cannot be won unless rank-and-file workers take the conduct of the struggle out of the hands of the UAW.
From the archive of the World Socialist Web Site
Eighty-two years since the victory of the Flint sit-down strike
By
Jerry White,
1 October 2019
With 48,000 GM workers engaged in the longest nationwide auto strike in nearly a half century, it is valuable to study the heroic struggle by GM workers during the 1936-37 sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan.
A call to action:
Why students and youth should support striking GM workers
By
the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)–US,
1 October 2019
The IYSSE calls on students and youth throughout the US and the world to actively support the 48,000 striking General Motors workers and to bring them an international and socialist perspective.
“The UAW is allowing GM to take us back to before the sit-down strikes”
Striking GM workers on picket line discuss what is at stake in their battle
By
our reporters,
30 September 2019
GM workers discussed their fight to overturn decades of UAW-backed concessions, end the exploitation of temporary workers, and support the victimized Mexican GM workers.
Wall Street gives GM and UAW time to wear down strikers and impose concessions
By
Tom Hall,
30 September 2019
Investors are giving GM and the UAW the time they need to wear down strikers and enforce a defeat that would shape the future of global auto industry.
As US GM strike continues
Layoffs mount in Canadian auto industry
By
Carl Bronski,
30 September 2019
Over 6,000 Canadian auto assembly and parts workers have been temporarily laid off as a result of the ongoing strike by 48,000 American UAW members against GM.
Tesla autoworkers in California support striking GM workers, denounce working conditions
By
Evan Blake,
30 September 2019
The rise of Tesla is part of a global restructuring of the auto industry to prepare for the production of electronic vehicles, using fewer and more poorly paid workers.
US and Mexican autoworkers call for united struggle against GM and auto companies
By
Tom Hall,
28 September 2019
More than 200 autoworkers and other sections of the working class discussed an international perspective to win the General Motors strike in a call-in meeting Thursday hosted by the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter.
GM restores health care to strikers in maneuver to smooth path for UAW sellout
By
Tom Hall,
27 September 2019
Media commentators feared the cutoff of healthcare would backfire, with the Detroit Free Press likening it to “pouring gas on the fire,” and only harden workers’ resolve against both GM and the UAW.
“It would be wonderful if the strike expanded to the other auto plants”
Michigan auto parts worker speaks in support of GM strike
By
our reporter,
27 September 2019
General Motors is seeking to replicate the highly exploitative conditions existing in the auto parts industry into its assembly plants, counting on the collaboration of the UAW.
UAW keeping workers in the dark as it works to shut down strike against GM
By
Jerry White,
26 September 2019
The only explanation for the silence of the UAW is that it conspiring to impose another pro-company contract that workers will oppose.
South Korean autoworkers join global fight against GM
By
Ben McGrath,
26 September 2019
Workers in South Korea, the United States, and around the world face the same fight against GM and other corporations.
In photo op at GM picket line, Sanders promotes nationalism, covers for Democrats and UAW
By
Tom Hall,
26 September 2019
Bernie Sanders put in a brief media appearance on the picket line at GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant Wednesday morning.
GM fires another Mexican worker for aiding strike in the US
By
Andrea Lobo,
26 September 2019
Autoworkers across the US sent statements of support to Mexican GM workers facing retribution for advocating a united fight against the global corporation.
Victimized Maruti Suzuki workers support striking GM workers
By
our reporters,
26 September 2019
The following statement of support for striking General Motors workers in the US was sent by Jitender Dhankhar on behalf of the Provisional Committee of the Maruti Suzuki Workers Union in northern India .
Germany: Opel workers support GM strike in the US
By
our reporters,
26 September 2019
News of the strike by 46,000 GM workers in America was met with great interest at Opel’s main plant in Rüsselsheim.
More layoffs at parts plants as GM, UAW strategize how to defeat strike
By
Tom Hall,
25 September 2019
The UAW is concerned above all with how to preserve its own institutional interests as it colludes in further job losses and plant closures.
Autoworkers need a socialist and internationalist strategy to fight GM and the auto companies
By
Jerry White,
25 September 2019
If the auto companies and Wall Street insist that they cannot afford the most basic rights of workers, this is an argument not to accept more concessions, but to get rid of capitalism.
From the archive of the World Socialist Web Site
Walter Reuther and the rise and fall of the UAW
By
Tom Mackaman,
24 September 2019
Walter Reuther’s biography has much to teach workers about the transformation of the trade unions into reactionary adjuncts of the corporations and the government.
As walkout leads to layoffs across North America
Counting on UAW to sabotage strike, GM not budging on concession demands
By
Jerry White,
24 September 2019
Officials from the United Auto Workers and GM are plotting how to beat back the resistance of striking workers and impose a new round of concessions that will shape the future of the global auto industry.
“We all face the same thing:” GM strikers in Flint defend Mexican workers fired for making international appeal
By
Sheila Brehm and George Kirby,
24 September 2019
The decline of Flint is the product of the policies pursued jointly by the UAW and General Motors.
GM fires Mexican workers for aiding US strikers and calling for cross-border fight against automaker
By
the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter,
23 September 2019
The victimization exposes the weak underbelly of the transnational corporations, which fear that workers will defy the nationalist unions and unite internationally to defend jobs and living standards.
Elizabeth Warren promotes economic nationalism at Detroit GM workers’ picket line
By
Shannon Jones,
23 September 2019
The UAW is desperately seeking to shut down the strike, which cuts across their corporatist relations with management and threatens to spark a wider movement in the working class.
Daimler-Benz workers in Germany support GM strikers
By
Gregor Link and K. Nesan,
23 September 2019
German autoworkers in the city of Stuttgart support the strike of their American counterparts, against the auto companies and the union, as a model for their own upcoming struggles.
Jeff Pietrzyk, former aide to UAW vice president Joe Ashton, charged with criminal conspiracy
By
Jessica Goldstein,
23 September 2019
Pietrzyk sat on the 2011 UAW-GM National Negotiating Committee, which pushed through a miserable sellout contract that maintained a pay freeze and the hated two-tier system.
The GM strike is in danger
By
Marcus Day,
23 September 2019
While the weeklong strike by General Motors workers in the US has won the support of workers throughout the world, the UAW is working out a strategy to strangle it as quickly as possible.
Labor Notes, DSA line up with UAW bureaucrats against GM strikers
By
Shannon Jones and Barry Grey,
23 September 2019
In the face of the UAW’s strategy of isolating and betraying the powerful strike by US General Motors workers, middle-class “left” groups like Labor Notes and the Democratic Socialists of America are working to keep strikers chained to the union apparatus.
Wall Street to General Motors: End strike and ram through cuts
By
Tom Hall,
21 September 2019
Statements from credit agencies and the financial press demonstrate that striking GM workers are not simply confronting GM CEO Mary Barra and other executives, but the entire capitalist class.
“We will not submit, and we will not bow out.”
Hundreds of autoworkers discuss GM strike and global strategy in online meeting
By
Marcus Day and Evan Blake,
21 September 2019
Over 300 workers from the US, Mexico, Canada and other countries participated in the second WSWS Autoworker Newsletter online forum, with many expressing their desire to expand the GM strike.
“Go on strike ‘til you get it right!”
Detroit rapper GmacCash supports striking autoworkers
By
Kathleen Martin,
21 September 2019
The former autoworker spoke to the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter about life in the auto plants and why he supports the striking workers.
“Take control of the struggle!” Logistics workers at UPS and FedEx support GM strike, warn of union treachery
By
George Marlowe,
21 September 2019
Workers at UPS, where the Teamsters union forced through a sellout last year, and at FedEx are closely watching the GM strike and support a unified struggle of the working class.
Autoworkers at GM, Fiat Chrysler and Ford react to UAW’s starvation strike pay
By
Tom Hall,
20 September 2019
Yesterday’s article detailing how the union has used the strike fund as a slush fund for UAW officials elicited a strong response from autoworkers.
As GM tries to cut health benefits for workers on strike, Federal Reserve prepares more handouts to Wall Street
By
Andre Damon,
19 September 2019
The federal government wants unlimited amounts of cash to be provided to the financial system in the event of a stock market downturn.
GM shuts off healthcare for striking autoworkers, begins to use scabs in attempt to break strike
By
Jerry White and Tom Hall,
19 September 2019
Autoworkers are fighting not only General Motors executives, but also Wall Street and powerful global investors who demand further attacks on the working class to fuel the endless rise on the stock markets.
“The union is a company now”
Striking GM autoworkers call for expansion of strike to Ford and Fiat Chrysler, denounce UAW sabotage
By
Tom Hall,
19 September 2019
Workers are determined to fight the auto companies but have no confidence in the United Auto Workers to carry out a struggle.
Australian workers and youth back striking US autoworkers
By
our reporters,
19 September 2019
“I think there’s a common stream connecting workers all over the world. This is something we are all fighting for.”
The strike at General Motors: Class struggle vs. the reactionary politics of racial division
By
Joseph Kishore,
18 September 2019
The strike by American autoworkers refutes all those who have proclaimed the end of the class struggle, supposedly replaced by conflicts centered on race, gender and sexual orientation.
Trump administration intervenes in bid to shut down GM strike
By
Tom Hall,
18 September 2019
Autoworkers must be warned: the intervention by the Trump administration is not in their interests. All of their demands will be swept aside on the basis of lying promises about “saving” American jobs.
Striking GM workers arrested in Spring Hill, Tennessee for blocking scab truck
By
Tom Hall,
18 September 2019
Police arrested at least five pickets as GM steps up its strikebreaking efforts against nearly 50,000 autoworkers participating in the third day of their national strike.
Video: Fiat Chrysler workers support GM strike, demand joint fight
By
Jerry White,
18 September 2019
Fiat-Chrysler workers in Michigan declare their support for the strike and their desire for a joint struggle with GM workers.
Video: Striking GM workers in Flint, Michigan discuss key issues in their fight
By
the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter,
18 September 2019
GM workers in Flint, the site of the 1936–37 sit-down strike, describe the significance of their battle against the giant corporation and decades of concessions accepted by the UAW.
“We will not accept an increase in production”
GM workers in Mexico hold assembly to discuss strike in the United States
By
our reporters,
18 September 2019
A worker at the GM plant in Silao appealed to US workers: “Keep us informed and we’ll inform people here to decide what we’ll do. There are people supporting us and we just have to keep fighting. If more people support us, we’ll move forward.”
BREAKING: Trump administration intervenes in bid to shut down GM strike
By
Tom Hall,
17 September 2019
Autoworkers must be warned: the intervention by the Trump administration is not in their interests. All of their demands will be swept aside on the basis of lying promises about “saving American jobs.”
GM hiring scabs to replace strikers at Missouri and Texas assembly plants
By
Tom Hall,
17 September 2019
Autoworkers at the Wentzville, Missouri and Arlington, Texas assembly plants confirmed that GM is hiring strikebreakers to operate the plant during the strike.
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