The job losses are an indictment of the trade union bureaucracy whose pro-capitalist campaign, calling on workers to defend “our industry”, has yet again ended in failure.
The attack on our CEB brothers and sisters is an attack on all of us! We all face the government’s brutal austerity program dictated by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The meeting brought together workers from the auto, logistics, healthcare and other industries to discuss how to organize a working class counteroffensive internationally against the attacks on jobs.
The same day that Ford announced the cuts, the S&P 500 stock index reached its highest level in history. Wall Street is salivating over the prospect of interest rate cuts and the use of artificial intelligence to cut jobs and force down wages.