After withholding information from workers on the most important things being said in the contract talks, union officials are now trying to stampede us into voting on an agreement, just as they did in 2017 and earlier.
Over 6,000 Caterpillar workers in the US are gearing up for a major struggle to reverse wage and benefit concessions previously imposed by the UAW bureaucracy.
The comparison of the current, bogus, UAW runoff election to the heroic 1937 Flint sitdown strike along with the claim of worker apathy for low rank-and-file turnout is utterly false.
Workers who spoke to the WSWS earlier this week at plants in the Peoria, Illinois, area the center of Caterpillar production for much of the 20th century overwhelmingly expressed the sentiment that they needed far better wages, benefits and working conditions.
The recently formed Caterpillar Workers Rank-and-File Committee issued a statement calling for a common struggle with autoworkers for higher wages and better working conditions.