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Documentary about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, a radical black workers' group based in the car factories of Detroit. Through interviews with members, supporters and opponents as well as footage of leafleting and picket lines, the film documents their attempts to build a radical black workers' organisation to take on both management and the union and fight to improve conditions for all workers, black and white.
Separate agreement leads to expulsion of FIOM from Fiat Italian factories
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Jan 22 2012 20:09
Thousands of FIAT workers will no longer be represented by FIOM, the main Italian union of mechanical industrial workers.
Car industry disputes, 2005
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 8 2010 16:44
Short roundups of various workers' struggles in the global automobile industry by Prol-Position in 2005.
Update on the car industry, 2005
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 5 2010 15:09
Short update on strike of lorry drivers which stopped production at FIAT plant in Melfi/Italy, a strike note from VW in Navarra/Spain and news on ‘revolutionary’ production relations between assembly plant and suppliers at DC in Toledo/USA.
Anatomy of an industrial struggle: Chrysler factory at Tonsley Park in Adelaide 1976-1978
Submitted by Steven. on Nov 7 2009 14:19
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.
Wildcat: Dodge Truck June 1974
Submitted by Steven. on Nov 6 2009 13:30
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.
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 carrot and the stick: December 11, 1968
DRUM's attack on the spectacle of the Chrysler Corporation's "milestone agreement" to "pour $1,000,000 into colored-owned banks in three US cities".
Canada: Wildcat strike in solidarity with sacked auto workers
Submitted by Steven. on Apr 3 2007 10:43
Workers at a plant in Guelph, Ontario struck on Saturday in support of sacked Toronto car employees occupying their plant for severance pay.
Toronto: auto workers occupy factory
Submitted by Mike Harman on Apr 1 2007 10:07
150 auto workers occupied their factory yesterday in a dispute over unpaid severance pay whilst hundreds more demonstrated outside.
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