Workers Struggles: The Americas
Over 700 workers in Antofagasta, Chile went on strike October 7, while Unifor has set a strike vote for 9,000 Canadian Stellantis workers.
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UAW election debacle: More than 90 percent of members boycott vote, as apparatus reinstalls Fain
More than 90 percent of the United Auto Workers membership boycotted the vote. With the entire apparatus of the union at his disposal, Shawn Fain has been “re-elected” with the votes of 6 percent of the members.
Jerry White•
Nexteer workers: No enrollment, no health insurance, and barely a warning. Who benefits?
We do not only blame the company. The fact the UAW did not ensure that our benefits were automatically rolled over just underscores how completely the union apparatus has betrayed us.
Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
UAW official, who issued death threat against Will Lehman, fired from position after months of rank-and-file demands
Raymond L. Jensen Jr., an organizer in the UAW’s Department of Bargaining Strategy, has been fired from his $202,000 a year position.
Our reporters•
George Kirby•
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Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
Andrea Lobo•
Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
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.
Jerry White•
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Evan Blake•
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Jerry White•
National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee•
Fight the layoffs at Stellantis Warren Truck! Organize a rank-and-file counteroffensive!
Autoworkers must make this the start of a broad fightback, counterposing workers’ right to employment and a decent standard of living against management’s so-called “right” to profit.
Autoworkers Rank-and-File Committee Network•
Stop mass layoffs at Warren Truck! Mobilize the international working class against job cuts!
The cuts at the Detroit-area plant, set to take place on October 8, are a battle in a world war on jobs, pitting a working class united by global production against the giant transnational corporations.
Tom Hall•
25,000 jobs at risk at Stellantis plants in Italy
Ferdinando Uliano, chairman of the Christian Metalworkers’ Union, said that Stellantis wants to eliminate at least 12,000 jobs in its Italian plants, threatening an additional 12,000 to 13,000 jobs at parts suppliers.
Marianne Arens•
Attacks on jobs and social benefits at Opel, Germany part of global job cuts by Stellantis
Since the formation of Stellantis three years ago, 23,000 of the company’s 281,000 workers worldwide have already been cut.
Marianne Arens, K. Nesan•
Massive job cuts in the German automotive and supplier industry
The IG Metall union has no thought of mobilising its 1.5 million members in the factories and plants to oppose the impending jobs massacre. Everywhere the union and its works council representatives work to implement the cuts and closures.
Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
Volkswagen threatens 3,000 jobs as it prepares to shut down its Audi plant in Brussels
The transition from combustion engines to electric cars is being used by corporations and investors worldwide to cut jobs, reduce production costs and increase profits.
Ulrich Rippert•
Stop the EV jobs bloodbath!
What is being prepared is not a contract, it is a death warrant for hundreds of thousands of auto jobs in North America and millions around the world.
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
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UAW election debacle: More than 90 percent of members boycott vote, as apparatus reinstalls Fain
More than 90 percent of the United Auto Workers membership boycotted the vote. With the entire apparatus of the union at his disposal, Shawn Fain has been “re-elected” with the votes of 6 percent of the members.
Jerry White•
Rank-and-file candidate for UAW president defends Ann Arbor nurse being prosecuted by Trump for protecting patient against Border Patrol
Will Lehman calls on UAW members and all members to demand the dropping of charges against former Trinity Health nurse Chloe Freeman.
Our reporters•
UAW official, who issued death threat against Will Lehman, fired from position after months of rank-and-file demands
Raymond L. Jensen Jr., an organizer in the UAW’s Department of Bargaining Strategy, has been fired from his $202,000 a year position.
Our reporters•
“This movement will be led by workers or it will not be led at all”
Insurgent candidate for UAW president holds campaign meeting on eve of vote count
With ballots about to be counted, Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate for UAW president, outlined his program to mobilize autoworkers against job cuts, war and dictatorship.
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Tom Mackaman•
Margot Miller•
Carl Bronski, Keith Jones•
Jerry White •
Volkswagen Action Committee•
Mexican autoworkers kept in the dark on looming US-Canadian auto strike
The unions are seeking to divide North American auto workers, facilitating moves by the companies to offset the impact of any strike action.
Andrea Lobo•
Workers at GM plant in Silao, Mexico: US-sponsored union “destroyed our independence”
The AFL-CIO and US government imposed a so-called “independent” union at the GM Silao factory that has acted no differently from the corrupt charro unions, according to six workers used in the process and then “thrown into the trash.”
Andrea Lobo•
GM workers in Silao, Mexico speak out after co-worker loses his leg
Deeply stirred by the accident, active and former workers of the Silao plant reached out to the World Socialist Web Site to register their anger, describe safety concerns and condemn the new and so-called Independent Union (SINTTIA) for its bankrupt response.
Andrea Lobo•
“If we had not struck, the union would have done nothing”
Thousands walk out in Matamoros as Mexican government lets corporations continue production during pandemic
A year after wildcat strikes involving 70,000 workers, the maquiladora workers in Matamoros are leading the fight against the dangers workers face from Covid-19.
Andrea Lobo•
US-backed SINTTIA union wins representation as workers at Silao, Mexico GM plant vote out CTM
The claim that the victory of SINTTIA in the vote by Silao workers represents at step forward is belied by the support it received from the corrupt, pro-management US union bureaucracy and the Biden administration.
Shannon Jones•
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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