car industry

A recent study on temp work in the German automobile industry reveals that the companies in this sector try to hide the fact that they employ temp-workers.

Report from October 2002 about work, resistance and the possibilities for struggle in a Milan call centre.

Account of a small but significant strike at a Skoda (owned by Volkswagen) factory in the Czech Republic.

The following article was written by comrades from the Czech Republic. Following their analysis of the strike at Skoda they investigated the development of the car industry in the Czech Republic more thoroughly, concentrating on Škoda/Volkswagen, TPCA (Toyota Peugeot Citroën Automobile) and the suppliers.

In June 1973 workers at the Broadmeadows Ford factory exploded smashing up their workplace, facing off police and forcing union bosses into…

Tony Mcqade worked at British Leyland’s site 2 car plant in Speke from the late 1960s until its closure in 1978, as well being a shop steward at the plant for a number of years, and is now a full time official with the TGWU.

Workers at the Sao Paulo plant approved the strike in a mass assembly of 10,000 workers, starting immediately in “direct response” to the firings…

A wildcat strike has broken out in Canada as workers at AGS Automotive plant walked out in a dispute over pay and work rate.

Workers from the Ryton plant in Coventry, due to be closed by Peugeot, demonstrated outside a dealership in Birmingham alongside members of West…

A member of West Midlands Anarchists speaks to libcom.org news about the impending closure of…

The Iranian government also has an internal crisis on its hands. The country's high level of poverty has triggered a series of intense social struggles.