Auto Industry

The UAW Is Right: All Workers Deserve a Shorter Work Week AND Higher Wages
The current contract struggle at The Big Three and increasing automation in the auto industry raise an important question: How can we use technology to benefit the working class rather than feed the profits of the bosses?
Luigi Morris
September 14, 2023“Put a Crimp in the Belt and the Whole Belt Freezes”: The Anniversary of the Flint Sit-Down Strike
Today, 84 years ago, the Flint sit-down strike began. By sitting down, autoworkers stood up for the entire working class and set into motion a movement that built a mighty labor movement. As the pandemic and economic downturn continues to wreak havoc, it is important to remember what solidarity and grit can accomplish.
Ioan Georg
December 30, 2020With 23 UAW Members Dead, UAW Halts Big 3 Reopening Next Week
General Motors wants workers to get back on the assembly line, but workers and the UAW say it's too soon. The move by the UAW to slow down production at GM could have ripple effects throughout the U.S. economy as other manufacturers may follow their lead.
Tatum Regan
April 26, 2020U.S. Automakers Shut Down After Wildcat Strikes
On Wednesday, the Big Three automakers announced they are closing all plants in the U.S. Managers presented this as a voluntary decision. In reality, it was a reaction to spontaneous strikes by auto workers. Auto workers around the world have been going on strike to protect their health and safety.
Nathaniel Flakin
March 19, 2020Squandered Power: The UAW and the GM Workers’ Strike
In order to win, the working class needs democratic unions, internationalism, and a leadership oriented towards class-struggle.
Thaddeus Greene
February 16, 2020Building Power at the Point of Production
Many people on the Left believe that the United States is "deindustrialized." In fact, the US has the world's second largest manufacturing industry. In this guest post, a factory worker from Los Angeles argues that the Left needs to be part of the industrial proletariat.
Ben Solidaridad
January 2, 2020Wildcat Strike at UCSC Enters Second Week
The graduate students of the University of California, Santa Cruz are teaching an end-of-semester lesson on the art of the wild-cat strike by fighting the boss and the union bureaucracy. Not a grade will be submitted until the university submits to giving the graduate students what they deserve.
James Dennis Hoff
December 16, 2019UAW Officials Call Police on Members in Tennessee
UAW officials call the cops on workers who were gathered outside Local 1853’s union hall in Spring Hill, Tennessee.
Thaddeus Greene
October 22, 2019GM Strike at the Crossroads: the Strength is in the Picket Lines
Almost 50,000 striking UAW members at General Motors may return to work in the next few days, but much is uncertain. Does the (still secret) Tentative Agreement between GM and the union represent the type of gains workers have sacrificed so much for over the last month? Or will the agreement represent yet another bureaucratic sell-out?
Thaddeus Greene
October 16, 2019GM Workers Need International Unity
The strike at General Motors in the U.S. is entering its third week. GM is a global corporation that employs workers in 140 countries. International strikes are necessary to win real gains.
Thaddeus Greene
September 30, 2019