Autoworkers struggles
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.
India: Motherson autoworkers strike at cross roads
By Arun Kumar, 9 October 2019
Motherson workers should break the isolation imposed upon them by All India Central Council of Trade Unions and fight for the broadest mobilization of workers in India and internationally behind their struggle.
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.
20,000 jobs and six plants threatened at German tire maker Continental
By Marianne Arens, 5 October 2019
The company’s executive announced what is alleged to be its biggest ever reorganisation—a frontal attack on workers.
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.
UAW orders workers to stay on job past contract expiration at Volvo-Mack trucks
By Steve Filips, 4 October 2019
The October 1 contract deadline passed, however workers at two Volvo-Mack Trucks facilities were told by the UAW to stay at their posts until further notice.
John Deere announces layoffs at plants in Illinois and Iowa
By George Gallanis, 4 October 2019
With the assistance of the UAW, Deere is using a slump in sales to attack workers and increase profits.
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.
GM workers livid over $250 strike pay, as UAW uses economic pressure to break resistance to concessions
By Jerry White, 1 October 2019
While Wall Street is bankrolling GM for a long and bitter strike, the UAW has put 48,000 striking workers on starvation-level strike benefits.
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.
India: Police arrest hundreds of striking Motherson autoworkers at protest
By Moses Rajkumar and Sasi Kumar, 28 September 2019
The state government is seeking to break the month-long strike for decent wages and conditions.
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.
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.
“We’re all fighting for the same thing!” Striking US GM workers defend fired Mexican workers
By our reporters, 26 September 2019
Striking GM workers in Detroit and Flint denounced the firing of GM workers in Mexico for refusing to accept more work during the US strike.
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.
India: Motherson auto parts company in Chennai victimises strikers
By Arun Kumar, 20 September 2019
The company is the largest supplier of moulded parts, assemblies and modules to India’s domestic automotive industry.
The UAW’s $760 million strike fund: A bonanza for Solidarity House executives but only $250 per week for striking GM workers
By Eric London, 19 September 2019
The UAW’s refusal to provide adequate financial support for the strike exposes the unbridgeable conflict of interests between the union management and the rank and file.
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.”
Unifor shuts down Nemak auto parts strike in Windsor, Canada
By Carl Bronski, 19 September 2019
Bitterly opposed to mobilizing tens of thousands of Canadian and striking US autoworkers in support of Nemak workers, Unifor has handed the initiative back to the company and the state.
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.”
Hundreds of thousands of Indian auto workers face sackings and wage cuts
By Saman Gunadasa, 18 September 2019
The assault on Indian workers is part of the escalating global attack on the jobs, wages and working conditions of auto workers in the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe and Asia.
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.
“All the union officials should be put back on the line and work ten years as TPTs”
GM workers determined to fight as Ford and Chrysler workers press to join strike
By Jerry White, 17 September 2019
On their first day on the picket lines, General Motors workers are expressing their determination to fight the auto giant. Workers are winning broad popular support for their stand in defense of health care and an end to the abuse of younger second-tier and temporary part-time (TPT) workers.
German workers support GM strikers in US
By our reporters, 17 September 2019
News of the strike by nearly 50,000 GM workers in the US spread like wildfire through German factories and evoked powerful support.
Brazilian GM workers speak out on US autoworkers’ strike
By a WSWS reporting team, 17 September 2019
Brazilian GM workers increasingly recognize that every issue they face is common to their class brothers in the US and internationally.
“Now it’s time to give us back what we deserve”
Striking GM workers speak from the pickets
By Marcus Day, 17 September 2019
Campaign teams for the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter spoke with workers on the pickets Monday about the issues motivating their struggle.
US autoworkers shut down production at GM in nationwide strike
By the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter, 16 September 2019
Nearly 50,000 autoworkers have struck the biggest of the US-based automakers in the most significant strike by US industrial workers in decades.
Video: GM workers speak out on strike
By our reporters, 16 September 2019
GM workers from the Flint Assembly and Romulus Engine plant spoke to the World Socialist Web Site on the issues behind the walkout of 46,000 GM workers.
“The rank and file have to take control!”
Ford, Fiat-Chrysler workers call for all-out strike alongside GM workers
By WSWS Autoworker Newsletter, 16 September 2019
Workers are demanding an all-out fight against the companies and the corrupt UAW, which only called a strike after forcing GM workers to cross picket lines against striking janitors.
“The rank and file have to take control!”
Ford, Fiat-Chrysler workers call for all-out strike alongside GM workers
By WSWS Autoworker Newsletter, 16 September 2019
Workers are demanding an all-out fight against the companies and the corrupt UAW, which only called a strike after forcing GM workers to cross picket lines against striking janitors.
Germany: IG Metall union concludes pact with corporate bosses and government against workers
By Ulrich Rippert, 16 September 2019
The union is offering to cooperate in “structural changes” that will boost the profits of the auto companies.
US autoworkers shut down General Motors
By The WSWS Editorial Board, 16 September 2019
The strike by 46,000 GM auto workers marks a major escalation of class struggle in the United States and internationally.
Updated 5:35 PM EDT
Faced with massive opposition among workers, UAW calls national strike at GM
By WSWS Autoworker Newsletter, 15 September 2019
The UAW announced a nationwide strike at General Motors at a press conference Sunday in downtown Detroit. The strike will officially begin at midnight tonight.
“They’re stealing from us, who have nothing!”
Autoworkers react to UAW betrayal of GM, Ford, Chrysler contract fight
By our reporters, 14 September 2019
The WSWS Autoworker Newsletter encountered widespread opposition among workers to the UAW-company conspiracy in the course of campaigns at auto plants on Saturday.
UAW President Jones, former President Williams identified as co-conspirators in corruption scandal one day before contracts expire
By Tom Hall, 14 September 2019
With only hours to go before the expiration of the auto contract, the current and former presidents of the UAW have been exposed as gangsters and the “union” as a criminal syndicate.
US autoworkers want all out strike as contract deadline approaches at GM, Ford and Chrysler
By Shannon Jones, 14 September 2019
As the contract deadline for 158,000 autoworkers nears its expiration this weekend, workers at the Detroit automakers say they are ready to walk out to win back decades of concessions.
On eve of contract expiration: Vance Pearson, top lieutenant to UAW president Gary Jones, arrested for embezzlement
By Tom Hall, 13 September 2019
The arrest, the 10th so far in the FBI corruption probe, greatly increases the possibility of criminal indictments against Jones.
BREAKING: UAW President Gary Jones, former President Williams are unnamed co-conspirators in latest corruption charges, Detroit News reports
By Tom Hall, 13 September 2019
The Detroit News reported Friday that Jones and Williams are “UAW Official A” and “UAW Official B” in Thursday’s criminal complaint against UAW Region 5 Director Vance Pearson.
Hundreds of autoworkers discuss contract fight with GM, Ford and Chrysler in online meeting
By Marcus Day, 13 September 2019
Over 300 autoworkers attended an online meeting hosted by the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter Thursday to discuss a strategy for the 2019 contract struggle.
As union prepares sell-out of their struggle
Unifor President Jerry Dias addresses Nemak workers in Windsor
By Carl Bronski, 13 September 2019
A court ruling is expected as soon as Friday on an order demanding the taking down of picket lines at the parts plant where workers walked out last week in defence of jobs.
BREAKING: Vance Pearson, top lieutenant to UAW president Gary Jones, arrested for embezzlement
By Tom Hall, 12 September 2019
The arrest, the 10th so far in the FBI corruption probe, greatly increases the possibility of criminal indictments against UAW President Gary Jones.
UAW threatens workers with starvation strike pay as contract deadline at GM, Ford and Fiat Chrysler looms
By Tom Hall, 12 September 2019
While workers are preparing for strike action, the UAW, which forced through concessions for years in exchange for company bribes, is doing everything it can to sabotage a struggle.
“It would be great for workers from different countries to band together”
GM Detroit-Hamtramck workers determined to fight as auto contract deadline approaches
By a WSWS reporting team, 11 September 2019
GM workers at the Detroit-Hamtramck plant, which is threatened with closure, said they were ready to walk out and expressed support for striking GM workers in South Korea.
How Detroit Democrats handed Fiat-Chrysler $400 million for a new assembly plant
By Kevin Reed, 11 September 2019
Six years after the bankruptcy of Detroit, the ruling class is once again pilfering the public treasury.
September 12 online meeting
On the eve of the contract battle at GM, Ford, and Chrysler: A fighting strategy for autoworkers
By the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter, 11 September 2019
On September 12 at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time, the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter is hosting an online meeting to discuss the strategy and perspective needed to organize opposition to the corporations and the UAW. To participate, visit wsws.org/autocall.
As contract deadline looms in US, 8,000 GM autoworkers strike in South Korea
By James Cogan, 10 September 2019
The issues over which the Korean workers are striking are ones that their American co-workers will readily identify with.
GM fires and harasses Mexican workers to speed up production
By Andrea Lobo, 10 September 2019
GM is trying to switch production to Silao to continue its massive extraction of profits in the event of a strike in the US, but Mexican autoworkers are expressing strong opposition to being further super-exploited, and much less being used as scab labor.
UAW apologists try to cover up corruption scandal
By Jerry White, 10 September 2019
Organizations and publications in and around the UAW apparatus have responded to the expanding corruption scandal by trying to buttress its political stranglehold over autoworkers.
Countdown to contract fight: In final week before contract expires, autoworkers gear up for struggle against companies and UAW
By Tom Hall, 9 September 2019
A ferment is taking hold among autoworkers, who are determined to win back everything that has been taken from them.
“We all know they are lying!”
Workers furious as UAW stonewalls contract discussion with GM, Ford, and Chrysler
By Tom Hall, 7 September 2019
A letter sent to local union officials makes clear that the UAW will conceal the new contract until after the eleventh hour has already passed.
UAW to autoworkers: We won’t tell you anything, but don’t read the World Socialist Web Site
By Joseph Kishore, 7 September 2019
With just less than a week before the expiration of contracts at Ford, GM and Fiat Chrysler, the UAW is terrified that opposition among autoworkers will erupt outside of its control.
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