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…than it has ever been. This includes student debt now at $1.5 trillion and $1.3 trillion in auto debt, up 40 percent over the past decade. Consumer spending accounts for…
…increased. The China Labour Bulletin reports that so far this year there have been 25 protest actions among auto workers, mostly over layoffs and unpaid wages. Some 220,000 jobs have…
August 22, 1994 YORK, Pennsylvania — After 42 days on the picket line, members of the United Auto Workers on strike against Caterpillar pushed back a company-organized back-to-work campaign. Caterpillar…
…of increasing capitalist competition and because they sense our unions are weaker today. “The auto and airline bosses are talking openly about how much they plan to cut workers’ wages…
…this year reached a record level of $13.7 trillion, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York says. A rising component of this is car loans, with auto finance companies pushing…
…have faced a deep economic crisis, with job cuts in auto, steel and other industries. In 2017 USA Today listed Lorain County as one of the areas that “never recovered…
July 11, 1994 EAST PEORIA, Illinois — Members of the United Auto workers effectively shut down operations at Caterpillar Inc.’s plants in three states when they walked off the job…
June 6, 1994 EAST PEORIA, Illinois — In a victory for the United Auto Workers union, Caterpillar Inc. announced May 19 that it would reinstate 34 of 37 workers indefinitely…
May 30, 1994 A major confrontation is looming in the two-year war between members of the United Auto Workers and the bosses at Caterpillar, Inc. The entire labor movement has…
…do better and it’s not just talking and nothing else happens.” Chequeta Davis, who works at the Kia auto plant in West Point, Georgia, and her young daughter were among…
