On Thursday, nearly 1,000 workers at Clarios’s flagship US electric vehicle (EV) battery plant outside Toledo, Ohio, will be voting on a contract that the UAW has not allowed them to see.
Anger is mounting among the rank and file, who voted 99.9 percent to ratify a strike last week.
The struggle by workers in Britain is an advanced expression of a developing movement of the working class internationally. In every country, the working class is fighting back against the demands by governments and corporations that they sacrifice their living standards, working conditions, pensions and jobs.
Lehman is calling on workers to build rank-and-file committees to place power in the hands of the workers and unify their struggles with their class brothers and sisters around the world. through the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees to wage a common fight against globally mobile corporations.
The SMABC leaders went to convince the German bosses of their ability to suppress opposition in the factory in Brazil, while the Mercedes’ subsidiary cuts wages and jobs and increases time on the line to boost profits.
The following is a letter from United Auto Workers presidential candidate Will Lehman to Ford workers at the Louisville Assembly Plant, whose future has been called into question by the business press in recent days.