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Carter Eugene Adams visited workers on the picket line at the Lordstown, OH plant where they had worked for decades. The plant is now permanently closed as part of the deal between GM and the UAW.
All that surveillance is used to exert greater management control over workers, drilling them on their choices and how they spend every second.
Worley worried about the union's future: “They say 'we'll get 'em next time,'” he said, “but there may not be a next time. We lost 30,000 jobs in the last 10 years.”
Although UAW leadership has encouraged the rank and file to ratify the contract, many workers are unhappy with the highlights of the proposed deal.
On the 31st day of the longest auto strike in 50 years, General Motors and the United Auto Workers announced a tentative agreement.
On picket lines around the country, from Wyoming, Michigan to Rochester, N.Y. to Langhorne, Pennsylvania ---G.M. workers made the strike their own.
Their fight is one that all of us, regardless of the work we do, should claim as our own.
The picketing GM workers and impending Chicago Teachers Union action suggest a dramatic revival of striking as a tactic.
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GM cuts healthcare benefits for workers, as strike enters 4th day. This induces workers to get more angry. GM thinks this will scare them or get them to rethink the cost of their benefits. It's going to backfire. It's quick, rash and insensitive.
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