Workers Struggles: The Americas
Educators, retirees and other workers demonstrated across Venezuela October 29, while workers at aerospace defense contractor Triumph Engine Control Systems walked out on an unfair labor practice strike Monday.
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After union imposes sellout in Puebla, Mexico, VW cuts shift and government grants tax incentives to automakers
Two days after the third contract vote at Volkswagen's Puebla plant, the company and union cut the Taos line to one shift, while the Morena governments in Puebla and Mexico City handed new tax breaks to the automakers.
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“Our union is for the company not the members”: UAW rams through Bradford White contract, ending 47-day strike in Michigan
The United Auto Workers shut down the 47-day strike by nearly 1,300 Bradford White workers in Middleville, Michigan, after claiming that workers ratified the company’s “last, best and final” offer by 58.6 percent to 40.1 percent on Sunday.
George Kirby, Jerry White•
Bradford White workers: Reject the company-UAW “final offer!” Take the conduct of the strike into our own hands!
After failing to ram through a pro-company contract on October 23, the United Auto Workers bureaucracy is forcing workers to revote on the company’s “last, best and final” this weekend.
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Report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party
The global eruption of the class struggle and the rebellion against the union bureaucracies
We are publishing here the report delivered by Tom Hall to the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held August 2–7, 2026, introducing the fourth resolution, “On the international class struggle and the building of the IWA-RFC.”
Tom Hall•
Stellantis worker James Brasher killed on the job—the fourth death under the UAW’s “historic” 2023 contract
Brasher is the third Stellantis worker and at least the sixteenth UAW member killed on the job since 2022.
Jerry White•
1 year since the IWA-RFC hearing on the death of Ronald Adams Sr.: MIOSHA still silent as industrial toll mounts
On July 27, 2025, the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) presented its initial findings of its independent investigation into the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.
Jerry White•
One year since the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.: Family demands answers as MIOSHA investigation blocked
One year ago today, 63-year-old machine repairman Ronald Adams Sr. was crushed to death at the Stellantis Dundee Engine Complex in Southeast Michigan.
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Evan Blake•
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National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee•
After election debacle, the UAW apparatus moves to break the Bradford White strike
The United Auto Workers bureaucracy is telling 1,200 striking workers at the Bradford White water heater manufacturing plant in Middleville, Michigan that they must vote this weekend on what management calls its “last, best and final” offer.
Jerry White•
Dakkota workers denounce Detroit plant closure: “They don’t care about us”
Workers rejected the company’s official explanation and said Dakkota owner Andra Rush wanted to replace the current workforce with cheaper non-union labor.
Jerry White•
Autoworkers on UAW election: “Workers have no faith or trust in the UAW anymore”
There was a mass repudiation of the UAW apparatus in the recent election with 90 percent of eligible members not voting.
Sheila Brehm, Jerry White•
After the UAW election debacle: We must build rank-and-file committees and take power on the shop floor!
This statement was issued by Will Lehman, a rank-and-file worker at Mack Trucks in Macungie, Pennsylvania who ran for president of the UAW in the recently-concluded elections.
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During the first weeks of 2019, tens of thousands of striking workers brought to a halt virtually all the maquiladora manufacturing plants in the industrial Mexican city of Matamoros, just across the US border with Brownsville, Texas.
In a remarkable display of class unity and power, workers defied threats of retribution and violence from companies, union thugs, police and the military, and shut down a significant section of the closely-interconnected supply chain in North America.
Key to organizing their struggles across different companies and sectors was the formation of rank-and-file strike committees. Daily reports by the World Socialist Web Site played an important role in guiding the struggle and winning broader support.
In 2012, a management-provoked incident at the Maruti Suzuki Manesar auto factory outside of Delhi, India, was used as the pretext for the mass prosecution and frame-up of autoworkers, with 13 sentenced to life.
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