GM Auto Workers Strike for Power and to Protect Workers + Betrayed Autoworkers Strike Across US

GM Auto Workers Strike for Power and to Protect Workers + Betrayed Autoworkers Strike Across US

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TheRealNews on Sep 16, 2019

Retired UAW Leader Frank Hammer talks about why the workers struck, what it means for the union movement, and what this battle means.

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The Cruel and Shameless Ideology of Corporatism by Ralph Nader

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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
February 21, 2014

Like ravenous beasts of prey attacking a weakened antelope, the forces of subsidized capital and their mercenaries sunk their fangs into the United Auto Workers (UAW) and its organizing drive at the Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The UAW narrowly lost – 712 to 626 – and the baying pack of plutocrats exalted, as if they had just saved western civilization in the anti-union, lower-wage South.

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United Auto Workers (UAW) Sellout at GM and Chrysler by Stephen Lendman

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by Stephen Lendman
Global Research, October 22, 2007

The September and October United Auto Workers (UAW) GM and Chrysler agreements are just the latest examples of union leadership surrender and betrayal. It’s an ominous sign of labor’s plight and clear indication of what’s ahead – more for business, less for workers, and no relief in sight with union bosses out for themselves and more allied with business and imperial interests than their own rank and file.

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