Autoworkers voice support for Volvo strikers, oppose company-UAW strikebreaking: “All autoworkers should be on strike to support them”
Autoworkers in Detroit and Chicago responded with outrage upon learning of the United Auto Workers’ (UAW) attempt to shut down the five-week strike at Volvo Trucks in Dublin, Virginia. Although workers voted down a third tentative agreement last Friday, the UAW is forcing workers at Volvo’s New River Valley plant to vote on the exact same agreement again this Wednesday and has told them the company will impose the deal no matter which way they vote.
Autoworkers voiced their solidarity with Volvo workers against the attempted strikebreaking by the company and the UAW, and support is growing throughout the auto plants for a united struggle with the Volvo workers, who, like autoworkers in the Midwest and elsewhere, are fighting against substandard pay and benefits, attacks on retirees, the elimination of the eight-hour day and other major conce
Two funerals in one week at Sterling Stamping Plant: Part 1
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Last week, family, friends and coworkers laid to rest two autoworkers from Stellantis’s Sterling Stamping Plant north of Detroit.
Terry Garr’s casket
Crane operator Terry Garr, 57, died in the hospital the night of Wednesday, April 21, after a fatal accident, which occurred during a die set. Two days later, millwright Mark Bruce, 62, passed away after a fight with the coronavirus. Both were needlessly sacrificed on the altar of corporate profit.
The deaths of these two men are tragedies. Both men leave behind countless loved ones and friends, who had expected to spend many more years with them.