Workers have been on the job for nearly eight months since their last contract expired in May and have received virtually no information about the status of talks since.
The IAM bureaucrats in the incumbent slate used a mixture of harassment and intimidation, lengthy delays in sending campaign material, and finally the improper disqualification of ballots to ensure their own “re-election.”
Autoworkers must learn the main lesson from the struggles of rail workers and NSC workers, which is the need to build rank-and-file committees in every plant as fighting organizations of the working class, independent of the pro-company unions.