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  • Auto Parts Workers Battle Demand to Cut Wages in Half

    Wendy Thompson

    Picketers at American Axle talk about the need to draw a line in the sand—or snow—against spiraling concessions on wages, health care benefits, and pensions. . . .


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  • GE Workers Strike Against Globalization

    Alexandra Brown Executive Board, IUE-CWA Local 201

    In the latest skirmish in its battle against General Electric’s globalization strategy and destruction of members’ jobs, for four days in late October Local 201 of the International Electronic Workers-Communications Workers struck GE’s Lynn, Massachusetts plant, which makes engines for jet fighters.


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  • NAFTA Labor Black Hole Lessons for the Fast Track Debate

    by Sarah Anderson

    Five years ago, Mexican workers at two factories in Tamaulipas state owned by U.S.-based Breed Technologies initiated a work stoppage to protest unsafe working conditions. Workers in these two plants, called Customtrim and Autotrim, glue and sew leather around automobile steering wheels and gear shifts. As a result of poor ventilation and the fast pace of work, illnesses and injuries are extremely common. Plant managers, however, tell disabled employees, known as "jonkeados" (junked workers), that their problems are merely psychological...

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