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Autoworkers voice support for Volvo strikers, oppose company-UAW strikebreaking: “All autoworkers should be on strike to support them”
Autoworkers in Detroit and Chicago responded with outrage upon learning of the United Auto Workers’ (UAW) attempt to shut down the five-week strike at Volvo Trucks in Dublin, Virginia. Although workers voted down a third tentative agreement last Friday, the UAW is forcing workers at Volvo’s New River Valley plant to vote on the exact same agreement again this Wednesday and has told them the company will impose the deal no matter which way they vote.
Autoworkers voiced their solidarity with Volvo workers against the attempted strikebreaking by the company and the UAW, and support is growing throughout the auto plants for a united struggle with the Volvo workers, who, like autoworkers in the Midwest and elsewhere, are fighting against substandard pay and benefits, attacks on retirees, the elimination of the eight-hour day and other major conce
A response to a Vale Sudbury striker: USW doubles down on contract vote recommendation lie
The strike by 2,450 Vale miners in Sudbury, Ontario entered its sixth week Tuesday. The strikers are resisting demands by the multi-billion dollar conglomerate for real-term pay cuts, the gutting of health care and retirement benefits, and the further entrenching of a hated multi-tier wage/benefit grid.
Sudbury Vale miners picket line (Photo credit: USW Local 6500)
In a comment on a recent
World Socialist Web Site article (Top Vale executive threatens 2,450 striking miners in Northern Ontario) that outlined the company’s attempt to extort sweeping contract concessions at Vale’s giant base metals mine, mill and smelter complex in Sudbury, a striking miner, Bruce, wrote the following:
Britain receives 6 million applications for legal residence
Robert Besser
Six million EU residents have applied for permanent residence in Britain
The British government had set a June 30 deadline for those seeking permanent residence in the UK
After leaving the EU in 2020, Britain developed a new immigration system to allow EU citizens who had lived in Britain before Dec. 31, 2020 to retain the right to work, study and access benefits
LONDON, England: Six million EU residents have applied for permanent residence in Britain.
The British government had set a June 30 deadline for those seeking permanent residence in the UK. Just in June, more than 400,000 EU residents applied to participate in the program.
Latest count of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide at 0000 GMT, July 5
Xinhua
05 Jul 2021, 10:44 GMT+10
BEIJING, July 5 (Xinhua) The following are the latest updates on the COVID-19 global confirmed cases in hardest-hit countries by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University at 0000 GMT, July 5. Country Confirmed Cases