On Saturday, April 5, Workers at American Axle and Manufacturing in Detroit spoke to the WSWS about their history and their current struggle against company demands to slash their pay by two thirds.
Canada announces retaliation for Trump’s 25 percent auto tariffs
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s announcement of reciprocal tariffs on non-USMCA-compliant, US-made automobiles marks the third time the Canadian government has responded to Trump's trade war measures.
Niles Niemuth•
“Of course people are going to be laid off because of this”: US autoworkers react to the launch of Trump’s global tariff war
US autoworkers are already feeling the impact of the sweeping tariffs imposed by President Trump this week as anger mounts against the UAW leadership, which has aligned itself with the fascist administration.
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As Trump’s tariffs take effect Stellantis announces thousands of layoffs in Canada, Mexico and US
Stellantis will “temporarily” idle its Windsor Assembly Plant in Canada and Toluca Assembly Plant in Mexico. About 4,500 workers in Windsor will be impacted. Some 2,600 are employed at the Toluca facility.
Logan Buchko, Shannon Jones, Jerry White•
What the UAW’s 2024 financial filing says about Fain’s “union reform”
During a year in which workers saw their living standards devastated by inflation and thousands of UAW members lost their jobs, the army of UAW bureaucrats in the union’s Detroit national headquarters had a prosperous 2024.
Jerry White•
Shannon Jones•
Tom Hall•
Nick Beams•
Tom Hall•
Nick Beams•