car industry

Content about workers' struggles in the auto industry.

Sacked union convenor reinstated at Linamar Swansea

Rob Williams, the union convenor sacked at the Linamar plant in Swansea, has been reinstated just hours before plant workers were due to go on…

Report and reflections on the UK Ford-Visteon dispute 2009: a post-Fordist struggle

A detailed account and analysis of the struggle of Ford-Visteon car manufacturing workers who…

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Linamar workers in Swansea to strike this Thursday

Workers at the Linamar plant in Swansea are set to strike this Thursday in support of sacked union convenor Rob Williams.

Strikes and lockouts in South Korea

As the economic recession hits South Korea, striking car workers have been locked out of their factory while earlier in the week construction…

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Swansea Linamar workers to strike in support of sacked convenor

Workers at the Linamar plant in Swansea have voted in favour of an all-out strike in support of…

Workers in South Korea respond to mass redundancies with strike action

Workers at South Korean automaker Ssangyong Motor went on strike on Thursday in protest at plans for…

Belfast Ford/Visteon workers vote to accept deal

Ford/Visteon Belfast workers today (Sunday 3rd May) voted 147 to 34 to accept the deal already accepted on Friday by Enfield and Basildon Ford…

Belfast Visteon workers to vote on new redundancy deal

Visteon car workers in west Belfast are to vote today on whether to accept a deal and end a bitter…

Picket of Visteon administrators KPMG - this Friday Mayday

There will be a picket of KPMG UK headquarters - the Visteon administrators overseeing the…

Swansea union convenor sacked for supporting Ford/Visteon workers

A union convenor at the Linamar Plant in Swansea, formerly owned by Ford Visteon has locked himself…

Indian car workers strike at Hyundai

Workers at Hyundai Motor India Limited (HMIL) have taken strike action in protest of gross trade union rights violations and the company's…

Model trade union motion in support of Visteon occupation

Model trade union motion for supporters of the Visteon occupation to take to branch meetings.