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Opposition mounts among US workers to repeal of mask mandate Opposition is mounting among teachers, service workers and industrial workers to the new COVID-19 safety guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that essentially eliminate masking or social distancing requirements for vaccinated individuals in most settings. The new guidelines have been issued under conditions where nearly two-thirds of the US population is not fully vaccinated. Without a way to determine who is vaccinated and who is not, the rule means that large groups of unmasked people will be allowed to congr...

Two funerals in one week at Sterling Stamping Plant: Part 2 This is the second part in a two-part series. Part one can be read here. The forced relocation of Terry Garr from his home in the Cleveland, Ohio area to the Detroit suburbs is an experience all too familiar to autoworkers, who have been hit by wave after wave of layoffs and plant closures over the last 40 years. When the United Autoworkers agreed to the closure of Twinsburg Stamping in 2010, workers were forced to seek transfers to other plants in order to maintain employment. “Twinsburg was a great place to live,” Terry’s fri...

Two funerals in one week at Sterling Stamping Plant: Part 1 . Last week, family, friends and coworkers laid to rest two autoworkers from Stellantis’s Sterling Stamping Plant north of Detroit. Terry Garr’s casket Crane operator Terry Garr, 57, died in the hospital the night of Wednesday, April 21, after a fatal accident, which occurred during a die set. Two days later, millwright Mark Bruce, 62, passed away after a fight with the coronavirus. Both were needlessly sacrificed on the altar of corporate profit. The deaths of these two men are tragedies. Both men leave behind countless loved on...

A campaign team spoke to workers Thursday about the online May Day rally Saturday that will issue the call for the formation of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees.

After two deaths in one week at Sterling Stamping Plant, autoworkers describe dangerous conditions inside Stellantis factories After two deaths last week at Sterling Stamping Plant near Detroit, autoworkers are speaking out against unsafe conditions in Stellantis factories. On Wednesday, crane operator Terry Garr was crushed to death in an accident while performing a die staging. At the end of last week, millwright Mark Bruce died of COVID-19. Bruce worked in the plant’s powerhouse on the first shift. He was a senior worker in the plant who participated in a fantasy football league with his...