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A man and woman are in custody Monday following their arrests by Manteno police for the charge of stealing three village department of public works vehicles.

A Kankakee man was arrested late Tuesday by police following the carjacking and battering of the woman who was also the vehicle’s owner.

Statements from the UAW, Biden administration and Big Three auto corporations make clear that a massive sellout is being worked out behind the backs of 150,000 autoworkers in the US and 18,000 in Canada whose contracts expire over the next week.

Several decades ago, the Detroit Labor Day parade attracted tens of thousands. The small turnout Monday reflected both the collapse of union membership and the erosion of the authority of the trade unions over the working class.

Three people were arrested earlier this week after a "chop shop" was found at a Berclair home, according to the Memphis Police Department (MPD).

UAW President Shawn Fain is following the same playbook used by the Teamsters at UPS, seeking to disarm and demobilize opposition through various stunts as it prepares to impose a sellout.    .

Fain’s reply deliberately covered up the purpose of Biden’s intervention in the auto contracts, which is to ensure that the profit interests of the corporations are protected and that the class struggle is contained.

Jesse Dane Brower was the first high-profile car thief who was identified and arrested by Multnomah County's newly established Auto Task Force.

The outbreak of the campus strikes in New Jersey and Illinois threatens to break through the isolation imposed by the AFT bureaucracy and its local enforcers on the strike by U-M grad student instructors. This makes all the more sinister the promotion by the GEO leadership at U-M, dominated by the DSA, of the phony “reform” wing of the United Auto Workers bureaucracy headed by newly installed UAW president Shawn Fain.

Five police officers were hurt after a serious crash on I-70 in Maryland Heights Wednesday morning around 1:45 a.m.