After decades of corporate attacks on living standards, and round after round of concessions contracts imposed by the UAW bureaucracy, CAT workers are determined to secure major improvements to wages, benefits and working conditions, not just for themselves but for the next generation.
A 39-year-old Caterpillar worker fell into a molten iron crucible of over 2,600 degrees Fahrenheit and died immediately last Thursday at the company’s Mapleton, Illinois foundry, the second worker death at the facility in six months.