car industry
News and articles about work, policy and workers' struggles in manufacturing, research and development, mining and materials around the world.
Young Detroit Radicals 1955-1965 - Dan Georgakas
Dan Georgakas's personal recollections of radicals in Detroit and the people who formed the League of Revolutionary Black Workers.
Young Detroit Radicals 1955-1965 (1)
GurgaonWorkersNews no.21 – November 2009
Workers group's newsletter from India's special export zone, with workplace reports from the area and detailed coverage of the huge strikes of auto workers in October-November 2009.
GurgaonWorkersNews no.21 – November 2009
November 4, 2009
(Automobile Workers Strike – 20th of October 2009)
Gurgaon Workers News – Newsletter 21 (November 2009)
Anatomy of an Industrial Struggle: Chrysler Factory at Tonsley Park in Adelaide 1976-1978
An account of two years of struggle at an Australian Chrysler plant by one of the workers, including a detailed look at the role of the union.
Introduction
This article by Garry Hill, a worker at the Tonsley Park Chrysler plant near Adelaide in Australia, describes a series of struggles in which he was actively involved.
Wildcat: Dodge Truck June 1974
Detailed article by participants and eyewitnesses about the wildcat strike at the Chrysler truck plant in Michigan, 1974, and the roles of the workers, the union and the left.
Introduction
Ford Visteon Enfield Workers Occupation - Alan Woodward
An eyewitness account of the 2009 Enfield Ford-Visteon factory occupation, written immediately after the event. The author was the only full-time occupier who was not a former worker at the plant.
An eyewitness account and first thoughts
Note to readers
Ssangyong occupier jailed
A union member from Ssangyong Motors involved in the strike and occupation of the plant against job losses was sentenced to one and a half years in prison on Friday.
The defendant, identified only by his surname Kim, was tried as one of the ringleaders of the occupation of the company's Pyeongtaek factory.
The Suwon District Court convicted Kim of incurring 2.29 billion won (1.96 million USD) in damages to the automaker and destroying 10 million won worth of office furniture.
The end of the automobile
An analysis focusing on Germany of developments in the global car industry between its inception and the financial crisis of 2008-9.
The 'service society' and the end of industrial work has been propagated for decades now. Today the press is stuffed with reports on the importance of the automobile industry for the national economy and with pictures of industrial workers. The articles and pictures scream out: 'This is supposed to be the end?! – Unbelievable!!'.
Ssangyong motors strike in South Korea ends in defeat and heavy repression
Loren Goldner's analysis and overview of the defeated strike and occupation of the Ssangyong Motors plant against job cuts.
The Ssangyong Motor Company strike and plant occupation in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, ended after 77 days on Aug. 5. For the 976 workers who seized the small auto plant on May 22 and held it against repeated quasi-military assault, the settlement signed by Ssangyong court receivership manager Park Young-tae and local union president Han Sang-kyun represented a near-total defeat.
Flint 1936-7: Diary of a Sitdowner
The diary of one of the striking General Motors workers who occupied their factories between December 1936 and February 1937.
General Motors' sit-in strikers' thoughts inside Fisher Body #2 – Flint, Mi
Written by Francis O'Rourke
December 30, 1936 – 6:45 a.m.
Ssangyong occupation audio interview with Loren Goldner
Audio interview conducted with Loren Goldner by alternative radio in the aftermath of the two-month occupation of the Ssangyong motor plant by workers against job cuts.
Listen to the MP3 here:
http://www.archive.org/download/InterviewWithLorenGoldnerOnSouthKoreaWorkersOccupationOfSsangyong/mediahacker_korea__ssangyong_loren_goldner_interview.mp3
Or here:
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/mediahacker_korea__ssangyong_loren_goldner_interview.mp3
from www.mediahacker.org
