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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…
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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…
…would be “catastrophic for the UK auto industry.” Workers face capitalist crisis There is no letup in the grinding capitalist crisis — years of attacks on living standards, endless wars…
More than 25,000 workers at 45 factories — mostly foreign-owned auto– and electrical-parts plants — in Matamoros, Mexico, near the U.S. border ended a rolling strike Feb. 11 after winning…
…rural areas, in steel plants in Chicago, shipbuilding yards in Oakland, oil refineries in Houston and auto assembly plants in Detroit. But this is no longer true. The bosses have…
…interview both of them. In response to a question, McIntyre drew on her auto plant experience to explain the importance of building unity when confronted with a challenge by the…
…we got along. They call me ‘Gran Torino,’” Daniels said. He was referring to the Clint Eastwood movie about an aging auto worker in Detroit who seems like a racist…
…of the new forced overtime laws will be bosses at auto plants in Hungary, which account for nearly a third of all industrial output. To take advantage of conditions that…