UAW R.I.P.?
Max Fraser : Labor Organizing & Activism
To save the domestic auto industry, the UAW may end up killing itself.
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Strike! A Defining Moment for the UAW
Max Fraser : General Motors
The issues at stake, especially GM's drive to shift the burden of healthcare, will affect workers throughout the industrialized economy--to say nothing of Campaign '08.
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Spring Hill: Another Utopia Bites the Dust
General Motors is dimming the headlights on its industrial utopia in Spring Hill, Tennessee. The cutback at the visionary Saturn plant, where workers and managers once shared decision-making and cooperated as equals, is the latest affront to US autoworkers and American self-esteem.
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The Delphi Oracle
The cynical restructuring plan for bankrupt Delphi Automotive calls for massive wage and benefit givebacks for 51,000 American workers. Governors of affected states must craft strategies to minimize loss of jobs and income.
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Goodbye, Mr. Goodwrench
Nicholas von Hoffman : Employment/Unemployment
Delphi's bankruptcy is a marker of a new America in which there is no collective security, no union to make you strong, no government to give you shelter, in which workers stand alone.
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