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DoomsdaysCW

#DemocracyNow: “What About the Capitalists?”: Autoworkers in U.S., Mexico Call for Solidarity, Not Divisive Tariffs

Story April 08, 2025

"As workers brace for uncertainty and fallout from #Trump’s #tariffs, we hear from two #autoworkers, one in #Mexico and one in the United States. Israel Cervantes, founder of the National Independent Union for Workers in the Automotive Industry in Mexico, calls for unions across #NorthAmerica to unite against the tariffs, which have already led to layoffs from auto manufacturers. In the U.S., autoworker and UAW member Sean Crawford joins Democracy Now! on his work break to respond to the rhetoric and impact of the tariffs. 'They are always harping on foreigners, foreigners, foreigners. But what about the #capitalists? says Crawford, who urges international solidarity against #corporations’ attempts to sow division among #exploited #workers. “This nationalistic viewpoint has not been working for us and has resulted in a lot of these layoffs,' he says. 'I want to see us grow together as a #WorkingClass.'"

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democracynow.org/2025/4/8/uaw_
#ViewerSupportedNews #TrumpTariffs #Workers

Democracy Now! · “What About the Capitalists?”: Autoworkers in U.S., Mexico Call for Solidarity, Not Divisive TariffsBy Democracy Now!
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History January 11, 1937: Police tried to raid the Fisher Body plant during the Flint Sit-Down Strike against General Motors. Workers threw hinges, bottles and bolts at the cops, effectively holding them off. However, the cops injured 14 strikers with gunfire. They had been occupying the plant for nearly two weeks. And they would continue their sit-down strike until February 11. They won a 5% raise and the UAW signed up 100,000 members in the wake of the strike.

National Guardsmen with machine guns overlooking Chevrolet factories number nine and number four. By Sheldon Dick - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID fsa.8c28665.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2283936
#workingclass#LaborHistory#flint
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Nonilex

By comparison, his fellow #union bosses at the #AFL-CIO, #Teamsters & #autoworkers #unions earn less than $300,000 a year, acc/to a Politico report.

#HaroldDaggett formerly owned the Obsession – a 76’ yacht – & was seen zipping around in a Bentley, acc/to The NYT.

In 2005, Bush’s #Justice Department accused Daggett of being an “associate” of the Genovese crime family – one of the “Five Families” of the US #Mafia.

#Longshoremen#MAGA#scam
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History June 6, 1937: A general strike by 12,000 autoworkers and others in Lansing, MI shuts down the city for a month in what was to become known as the city’s “Labor Holiday.” A judge had recently imposed an injunction on workers, making it illegal for them to picket, blockade or interfere in the operations of Capital city Wrecking Company. The workers ignored the injunction were arrested, including the wife of the auto workers local union president, leaving their three children at home unattended. In response, they called a General Strike. Flying squadrons of out-town workers came in solidarity to support the General Strike. They were successful in forcing negotiations that got all the prisoners released. However, the strike continued in East Lansing, where anti-labor university students battled with workers, dumping some of their cars into the river.

Image shows strikers blockading the streets with automobiles.
#workingclass#LaborHistory#strike
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Peter Riley

Stick Together: workers rights and current affairs; #union news from across the country.

Two United Auto Workers (United States) organisers speak about how their union turned the corrupt and conservative union into one fighting for workers rights and leading the largest #strike in the industry in over 25 years.

Wherever you are, whatever you do, there is a union for you.

3cr.org.au/sticktogether/episo

3CR Community Radio · Union organising in US auto unionsStick Together is a half-hour weekly show about workers rights and current affairs. On this week's episode host James Brennan brings us some union news from across the country. We hear about the reformation of the United Auto Workers union in the United States. As two organisers speak about how the union turned around the corrupt and conservative union into one fighting for workers rights and leading the largest strike in the industry in over 25 years.
#3cr#communityradio#UAW
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Peter Riley

‘Tick Tock’: Daimler Truck Workers Use Strike Threat to Win Big

labornotes.org/2024/05/tick-to

Labor Notes · ‘Tick Tock’: Daimler Truck Workers Use Strike Threat to Win BigNorth Carolina heavy truck and school bus manufacturing workers won 25 percent pay increases and ended wage tiers after an energetic contract campaign and strike threat against Daimler Truck. The United Auto Workers unionized these plants in the 1990s and early 2000s—but since then, wages had stagnated. Starting pay was low, and the plants were stuck on different wage scales. At Thomas Built Buses, the largest school bus manufacturing site in the U.S., assembly workers topped out at $24, $5 less than their counterparts at Daimler’s Mount Holly truck plant.
#autoworkers#union#Daimler
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History April 20, 1948: United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther was shot and seriously wounded by would-be assassins while he was eating dinner. It permanently impaired his right arm. He survived and ultimately died in a plane crash in 1970 under suspicious circumstances. Reuther also survived an attempted kidnapping in April, 1938, while his brother Victor was shot and nearly killed by police in 1949. The UAW headquarters was also bombed in 1949. Both Walter and Victor were again nearly killed in a small private plane near Dulles Airport. Despite this history of attempts on his life, virtually no media addressed the possibility that his actual death may have been an assassination.

Walter Reuther statue located at the Walter and May Reuther UAW Family Education Center in Black Lake, Michigan. By Laborhistorian108 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=83445832
#workingclass#LaborHistory#WalterReuther
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Magpieblog

By a landslide, workers at Volkswagen's auto plant in Tennessee have voted to join the United Auto Workers. This UAW victory is the first time a union has won a representation election at an auto plant in the South since the 1940s. This election adds momentum to union organizing already going on in the South. Chances are good that the UAW will win an election coming up on May 13 at a Mercedes plant in Alabama.

#AutoWorkers #UAW #Volkswagen #Tennessee #election #unions

reuters.com/business/autos-tra

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Over 10,000 Autoworkers Sign Union Cards Across 13 Non-Union Automakers in Major Milestone for Historic Organizing Drive - UAW | United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America

Over 10,000 autoworkers across 13 non-union companies have signed union cards with the UAW, as momentum builds across the auto industry for better wages, benefits, and rights on the job. The major milestone comes less than 90 days after UAW members ratified record contracts at the Big Three.

“Our Stand Up movement has caught fire among America’s autoworkers, far beyond the Big Three,” said UAW President Shawn Fain. “These workers are standing up for themselves, for their families, and for their communities, and our union will have their back every step of the way.”

In the wake of the UAW’s historic Stand Up Strike victory at the Big Three automakers (Ford, GM, Stellantis), thousands of non-union autoworkers began organizing their own unions with the UAW across the entire non-union auto industry.

#News #Politics #UAW #Unions #UnionStrong #AutoWorkers

uaw.org/over-10000-autoworkers

UAW | United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America · Over 10,000 Autoworkers Sign Union Cards Across 13 Non-Union Automakers in Major Milestone for Historic Organizing Drive - UAW | United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of AmericaOver 10,000 autoworkers across 13 non-union companies have signed union cards with the UAW, as momentum builds across the auto industry for better wages, benefits, and rights on the job.
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History January 11, 1937: Police tried to raid the Fisher Body plant during the Flint Sit-Down Strike against General Motors. Workers threw hinges, bottles and bolts at the cops, effectively holding them off. However, the cops injured 14 strikers with gunfire. They had been occupying the plant for nearly two weeks. And they would continue their sit-down strike until February 11. They won a 5% raise and the UAW signed up 100,000 members in the wake of the strike.

National Guardsmen with machine guns overlooking Chevrolet factories number nine and number four. By Sheldon Dick - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID fsa.8c28665.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2283936
#WorkingClass#LaborHistory#flint
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Jorro

#autoworkers #automakers #unions
“Jeep maker Stellantis has reached a tentative contract agreement with the United Auto Workers union that follows a template set earlier this week by Ford, two people with knowledge of the negotiations said Saturday.”

apnews.com/article/uaw-stellan

AP News · UAW and Stellantis reach tentative deal, adding 5,000 jobsBy TOM KRISHER
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