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Four hundred workers who manufacture backhoes and other construction equipment walked out of the plant along the Mississippi River on May 2, joining another 700 workers at CNH’s farm tractor plant in Racine, Wisconsin.
We have formed the MMRFC to unite all employees at Michigan Medicine in a common struggle for what we need, not what the hospital or the union says is possible.
The final day of the UAW Constitutional Convention saw a bureaucratic rampage, as the leadership under President Ray Curry moved to quash opposition motions, install hand picked candidates and rescind the previously voted increase in weekly strike pay from $400 to $500 after many delegates had left.
Workers have responded with derision to the increase in strike pay, rightly viewing it as an ploy by the UAW to retain credibility in the face of growing rank-and-file militancy.
It would be the first major strike by Deere employees since 1986.