[Marxism] "A socialist strategy for American Axle workers" by D'Artagnan Collier,

[Jerry Wells]

FYI-   

A socialist strategy for American Axle workers
By D'Artagnan Collier 
15 May 2009

American Axle and Manufacturing, the Michigan-based auto parts
manufacturer, has told workers it will stop production at its main plant
in Detroit-Hamtramck after Friday, May 15. It is not clear if the plant
will reopen. If it does, it will be with far fewer workers. The
following statement is from D’Artagnan Collier, the Socialist Equality
Party candidate for Detroit Mayor. 

Some 500 to 600 auto workers will be laid off, likely permanently, with
the shuttering of the main Detroit-Hamtramck American Axle plant on
Friday. Four hundred workers at the AAM plant in Three Rivers, Michigan,
will also be out of work on Monday.

The elimination of these jobs is the direct outcome of the United Auto
Workers' smothering of the three-month-long strike by 4,000 AAM workers
last year. Union executives told workers that the only way they could
save their jobs was to accept major wage and benefit cuts. 
...

Read the full statement here:

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/may2009/auto-m15.shtml