nerubi
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Excerpts from an article today:
Autoworkers begin returning en masse to factories and other production facilities around the US today. The auto giants, with the support of state governments and the Trump administration, have pushed ahead with their reopening plans despite the uncontrolled spread of the coronavirus pandemic and widespread opposition by workers to a premature and life-threatening return to work...
The ruling class views the auto industry reopening both as a test run to gauge the level of resistance by workers and key to restarting the flow of profits for Americaâs corporate and financial elite...
Workers have widely shared the understanding that it is not yet safe to return to work. A worker at a Lear auto parts plant in Michigan said, âWe have a Facebook group and have been talking about it. We sent a survey that got 200 responses, and only three people wanted to go back, just because they didnât want to be stuck at home anymore...
The auto companies, the UAW and the government are also attempting to use extreme financial pressure, including the threat of losing unemployment benefits or permanently losing their jobs, to strongarm the workers back into the plants. The companies in particular hope to blackmail temporary workers, who receive less unemployment pay and have fewer benefits, key concessions given up by the UAW in recent contracts.
This was published today in what everyone knows is the most respected journalism source - World Socialist Web Site.
Autoworkers begin returning en masse to factories and other production facilities around the US today. The auto giants, with the support of state governments and the Trump administration, have pushed ahead with their reopening plans despite the uncontrolled spread of the coronavirus pandemic and widespread opposition by workers to a premature and life-threatening return to work...
The ruling class views the auto industry reopening both as a test run to gauge the level of resistance by workers and key to restarting the flow of profits for Americaâs corporate and financial elite...
Workers have widely shared the understanding that it is not yet safe to return to work. A worker at a Lear auto parts plant in Michigan said, âWe have a Facebook group and have been talking about it. We sent a survey that got 200 responses, and only three people wanted to go back, just because they didnât want to be stuck at home anymore...
The auto companies, the UAW and the government are also attempting to use extreme financial pressure, including the threat of losing unemployment benefits or permanently losing their jobs, to strongarm the workers back into the plants. The companies in particular hope to blackmail temporary workers, who receive less unemployment pay and have fewer benefits, key concessions given up by the UAW in recent contracts.
This was published today in what everyone knows is the most respected journalism source - World Socialist Web Site.
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