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(en) Britain, anarchist communist group ACG: Car Workers Strike in US
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Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:55:43 +0200
As of October 23rd car workers in the Unites States have been on strike for 38 days. This
involves 48,000 workers at 50 General Motors (GM) plants. Demands put forward by the
workers included better job security, facilitation of temporary workers getting permanent
jobs, better pay and the retention of healthcare benefits. It is the first mass strike by
US carworkers in a decade. ---- The United Automobile Workers (UAW), the union
representing many carworkers, agreed a sweetheart deal to help GM recover from the last
recession, GM has indeed increased its profits but continues to shut down plants in the
USA and move production abroad. ---- Under increasing anger from workers, the UAW was
forced to call for strike action beginning on September 15th. In retaliation, GM withdrew
health insurance from 55,000 car workers on September 17th. They rescinded this nine days
later under pressure. Truck drivers refused to deliver cars during the strike in solidarity.
On October 16th the UAW and GM announced a new contract which would be put to car workers
in a ballot. This new contract is yet another sellout by the UAW leaders. Under the terms
of the contract, the Lordstown plant and three other workplaces will still be closed down,
the two tier system that discriminates between temporary and permanent workers in terms of
pay and benefits is not only retained, but a whole new set of tiers is created. That means
GM can hire temporary workers and third party contract workers at will.
The UAW has acted against rank and file workers organising for a No vote. In Spring Hill,
Tennessee it called in police against rank and file workers who called for a rejection of
the new contract and it is attempting to deprive the rank and file of any control over the
running of the ballot. The UAW knows that it faces rejection of the deal at the larger
plants, so started the ballot in smaller workplaces. The threatened plant at Lordstown has
been put at the end of the ballot process, whilst in the meantime the UAW bureaucrats are
trying to put over that there are more Yes votes than No votes in a salami tactics move.
It will attempt to rig the vote and sellout the carworkers to the GM bosses.
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2019/10/23/car-workers-strike-in-us/
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