Workers Struggles Around the World
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8 April 2016
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2 April 2016
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French workers, youth defy state of emergency to protest austerity policies
By Anthony Torres, 1 April 2016
As many as 1.2 million people participated in demonstrations Thursday across France against the draconian anti-working class policies of the Socialist Party government.
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25 March 2016
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18 March 2016
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15 March 2016
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China: Thousands of coal miners protest over unpaid wages
By Peter Symonds, 14 March 2016
The protests are a sign of the acute social tensions building up as the economy slows and the government prepares to axe millions of jobs.
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12 March 2016
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11 March 2016
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Steel workers strike in Mexico
By Rafael Azul, 10 March 2016
Striking steel workers at ArcelorMittal in the port city of Lázaro Cárdenas are demanding the rehiring of laid-off workers.
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5 March 2016
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4 March 2016
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1 March 2016
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Strike at Chinese steel plant points to impact of global slump
By John Ward, 27 February 2016
A stoppage at a Guangzhou stainless steel factory highlights the mounting resistance of Chinese workers to deepening attacks on jobs, wages and conditions.
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
26 February 2016
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India: Over 200,000 Tamil Nadu government workers on indefinite strike
By Arun Kumar and Moses Rajkumar, 20 February 2016
The state-wide walkout reflects the growing opposition of Indian workers to successive government attacks on basic democratic rights and living standards.
Pakistan steps up privatization drive after unions suppress airline strike
By Sampath Perera, 20 February 2016
Nawaz Sharif’s government has seized on the unions’ betrayal of the PIA anti-privatization strike to victimize hundreds of the most militant workers.
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
20 February 2016
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16 February 2016
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13 February 2016
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9 February 2016
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Sri Lanka: Plantation unions suppress struggle for wage rise
By M. Thevarajah and W. A. Sunil, 6 February 2016
The trade unions are promoting the illusion that the government will force the companies to grant a 2,500-rupee ($17) increase in the monthly wage.
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5 February 2016
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Two workers killed as government seeks to crush Pakistan airline strike
By Sampath Perera, 4 February 2016
Pakistan’s government is determined to break the strike so as to demonstrate mass opposition will not deter it from pushing through a sweeping IMF privatization program.
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2 February 2016
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29 January 2016
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27 January 2016
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26 January 2016
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22 January 2016
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15 January 2016
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12 January 2016
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Freightliner announces nearly 1,000 layoffs at North Carolina plant
By Jerry White, 6 January 2016
The layoff announcement follows similar job cuts and UAW-sanctioned attacks on workers at Volvo, Navistar and other truck manufacturers in the US.
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4 January 2016
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Dictatorship conditions at Ford’s Kansas City Assembly Plant: Part Two
With UAW complicity, Ford fires workers for voicing opposition
By Eric London, 30 December 2015
A local UAW official confirmed that at least a dozen workers have been fired from the Kansas City plant for comments posted on Facebook, and the union has done nothing.
After the Big Three contracts
Auto companies cheat retirees while posting record sales
By Eric London, 21 December 2015
As auto sales hit new records, an autoworker at GM’s Fort Wayne Assembly Plant in Indiana explained how workers are being cheated of their signing bonuses.
“They want this contract shoved down our throats”
UAW claims ratification of Nexteer sellout as lies exposed
By Shannon Jones, 19 December 2015
Broad sections of Nexteer workers remain opposed to the latest sellout in the face of UAW-company threats, lies and intimidation.
Montreal suspends 2,400 workers for participating in an “illegal” meeting
By Laurent Lafrance, 19 December 2015
Montreal’s mayor is accusing workers of “bullying” while his administration is attacking wages, pensions and benefits won through generations of struggle.
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19 December 2015
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18 December 2015
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Vote “No” on UAW-Nexteer sellout deal!
Build factory committees to mobilize all autoworkers in a common struggle
By Jerry White, 17 December 2015
The new deal is not a “contract” in any real sense but a slave’s charter, with the UAW imposing management’s demands for poverty wages and a dictatorship on the shop floor.
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
11 December 2015
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Over 3,300 auto parts workers strike in Saginaw, Michigan
The way forward for Nexteer workers
By Jerry White, 8 December 2015
The striking Nexteer workers deserve and need the support of all autoworkers and every section of the working class in the US and internationally.
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8 December 2015
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Massive “no” vote by Nexteer workers rejects UAW sellout
By our reporting team, 7 December 2015
An overwhelming 97 percent of workers at the former GM complex in Saginaw, Michigan defeated the deal, which maintains poverty level wages.
US: Lockout of 2,200 steelworkers nears end of fourth month
By Samuel Davidson, 7 December 2015
US steelmakers are using the slump in demand and falling prices to push for massive concessions and the destruction of many thousands of jobs.
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
4 December 2015
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A socialist perspective to defend Sri Lankan plantation workers
By the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), 2 December 2015
Plantation companies, in collusion with the government and unions, are planning a far-reaching reversal of working conditions and social spending to boost profits.
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
20 November 2015
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With Ford pact in jeopardy, UAW intensifies economic blackmail
By Jerry White, 19 November 2015
After Ford workers at two Louisville factories overwhelmingly voted “no,” the United Auto Workers held a hastily called press conference to threaten workers with plant closings and layoffs.
Injunction issued against Kohler strikers in Wisconsin
By James Brewer, 19 November 2015
The restraining order was issued by a Sheboygan County circuit court judge after the company filed a complaint charging that pickets were causing a traffic jam.
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13 November 2015
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UAW seeks to ram through Ford deal as results at GM show split vote
By Shannon Jones and Joseph Kishore, 7 November 2015
The announcement of a deal at Ford came the same day that the UAW reported that skilled trades workers had voted against the agreement at GM.
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7 November 2015
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6 November 2015
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UAW using economic blackmail in effort to ram through sellout deal
By Jerry White, 3 November 2015
After the defeat of its deal by Kansas City GM workers, the United Auto Workers has redoubled its efforts to push through the agreement.
Kansas City GM workers first to vote against UAW sellout deal
By Jerry White, 2 November 2015
Workers at GM’s Fairfax assembly plant voted by a two-to-one margin to reject the UAW-backed agreement with the giant automaker.
GM Components Holding workers: The “third tier” in the GM-UAW contract
By Joseph Kishore, 31 October 2015
The parts workers at GMCH, who will receive even lower wages than second-tier workers elsewhere in GM, are intended to serve as a model for workers throughout the company.
Opposition mounts as GM vote begins
By Shannon Jones, 31 October 2015
The snap vote organized by the United Auto Workers is an attempt to prevent workers from mobilizing opposition to the sellout agreement.
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31 October 2015
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30 October 2015
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Opposition to UAW-GM sellout mounts as details surface
By Jerry White, 29 October 2015
The UAW-GM contract, like the Fiat Chrysler deal before it, is aimed at creating a permanently lower wage and benefit scale in the auto industry.
Indian trade unions shut down Kerala plantation workers’ strike
By Arun Kumar, 27 October 2015
There is growing anger among plantation workers across the southern Indian state of Kerala over the unions’ wage betrayal.
Workers Struggles: The Americas
27 October 2015
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Ontario government gave teachers’ unions millions for “negotiating expenses”
By Carl Bronski, 26 October 2015
The existence of the payments only came to light when contents of the late summer deals the three unions reached with the government were leaked to the Globe and Mail.
Widespread anger and opposition in wake of ratification of Fiat Chrysler sellout
By Shannon Jones, 23 October 2015
The UAW followed the landslide “no” vote three weeks ago with a campaign that combined lies, threats, the fomenting of divisions between workers and economic blackmail.
GM posts record operating profits from cost-cutting, corporate restructuring
By Jerry White, 22 October 2015
The announcement of GM’s third-quarter profits comes as auto executives, the media and the UAW insist that autoworkers lower their expectations for new four-year labor agreements.
UAW claims early returns point to ratification of Fiat Chrysler sellout contract
By Shannon Jones, 22 October 2015
Voting wrapped up Wednesday on the new contract between the United Auto Workers and Fiat Chrysler amid widespread opposition and distrust in the integrity of the process.
John Deere workers in US demand recount, full release of contract
By George Gallanis, 22 October 2015
Three weeks since the UAW and the company announced the ratification of a new six-year labor contract agreement, John Deere workers remain angry and suspicious.
Fiat Chrysler workers vote as UAW and media push second sellout deal
By Shannon Jones, 21 October 2015
Despite a coordinated campaign by the company, media and the UAW, there is widespread opposition to the contract among FCA workers throughout the country.
Amidst mass coal mine layoffs, West Virginia takes blunt ax to budget
By Naomi Spencer, 21 October 2015
With coal tax revenue “in free fall,” Governor Earl Ray Tomblin abruptly enacted $100 million in budget cuts by executive order.
Letter from Ohio GM worker on UAW betrayal of Kmart struggle
21 October 2015
The WSWS Autoworker Newsletter received the following letter from a worker at the General Motors Lordstown Assembly plant about the struggle of Kmart workers.
Tennessee GM autoworker expresses solidarity with Fiat Chrysler workers
By our reporter, 21 October 2015
An autoworker at GM's Spring Hill plant expressed solidarity with Fiat-Chrysler workers, opposed the UAW’s second sellout deal and described conditions in the Tennessee plant.
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
17 October 2015
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16 October 2015
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Amid moves to sell-out Hutchison workers, Maritime Union of Australia threatens WSWS
By James Cogan, 14 October 2015
The MUA’s main fear is that the alternative perspective provided by the WSWS has won an audience among waterfront workers.
UAW hires public relations firm to sell Fiat Chrysler deal
By Eric London, 13 October 2015
The UAW and its new propaganda firm, BerlinRosen Public Affairs, are pouring out one lie after another to counter opposition from FCA workers.
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13 October 2015
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UAW begins campaign to beat back opposition to second sellout at Fiat Chrysler
By Jerry White, 12 October 2015
The UAW is beginning a series of information meetings, or more accurately “misinformation” meetings, this week as it tries to sell its repackaged proposal to FCA workers.
Australian Toyota workers support US auto workers’ struggle
By our correspondents, 12 October 2015
Autoworkers in Australia face the shutdown of the country's entire auto industry.
“The UAW is using smoke and mirrors to get this contract signed”
Fiat Chrysler workers denounce second sellout, demand united fight
By our reporters, 9 October 2015
FCA workers in Detroit responded to the aborting of their strike and the announcement by the UAW that they have a new deal.
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
9 October 2015
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UAW announces last-minute agreement with Fiat Chrysler, canceling strike
By Joseph Kishore, 8 October 2015
The UAW will now marshal every possible tool at its disposal to push through the pro-company agreement as rapidly as possible, including lies, threats, redbaiting and intimidation.
Germany: Works council and union agree to job cuts at Siemens Power & Gas
By Gustav Kemper, 7 October 2015
IG Metall has has sought to suppress any serious resistance by staging a few harmless protest actions.
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6 October 2015
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3 October 2015
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2 October 2015
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26 September 2015
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25 September 2015
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Voting begins as UAW seeks to push through deal with Fiat Chrysler
By Joseph Kishore, 23 September 2015
The UAW is seeking to give workers as little time as possible to study and discuss the contract before they have to vote on it.
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19 September 2015
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18 September 2015
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Fiat Chrysler, UAW tentative contract: A corporatist conspiracy against US autoworkers
By Shannon Jones, 16 September 2015
The stage-managed contract talks are a façade behind which two business entities seek to work out the terms for their mutual enrichment at the workers’ expense.
UAW used threats to stop walkout at Detroit Fiat Chrysler plant
By Jerry White, 16 September 2015
Late shift workers at the Warren Truck Plant described the strikebreaking role of the UAW as the contract expired at midnight on Monday.
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12 September 2015
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11 September 2015
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5 September 2015
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4 September 2015
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Australia: Melbourne tram drivers strike over wages and conditions
By our correspondents, 29 August 2015
Despite denunciations by the Victorian state Labor government, metropolitan train drivers have voted for a similar stoppage next Friday.
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29 August 2015
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Lockout of 2,200 workers at Pittsburgh-based steel manufacturer enters second week
By Evan Winters, 24 August 2015
The United Steelworkers union is isolating locked-out workers at Allegheny Technologies Inc., which is demanding steep cuts and the conversion of the workforce into low-wage casual labor.
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