Showing posts with label auto show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label auto show. Show all posts

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1/13/13

VIDEO: Autoworkers Protest Detroit Auto Show About Working Conditions, International Solidarity, Right To Work, and Need for Bolder Environmental Action

Jorge Parra, Fired GM Worker from Columbia in 55th Day of Hunger Strike, at 2013 Detroit Auto Show

  

 

Interviews: Autoworker Protest at 2013 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan 

 

Letter of Solidarity from GM Workers in Germany, Brazil, Spain, and Columbia | 2013 NAIAS 

 

Connecting U.S. Environmental, Housing, and Labor Policies at 2013 Detroit Auto Show Protest 


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1/6/13

Autoworkers Fight Back! Demonstrate at the 2013 North American Auto Show

via Autoworker Caravan

 

Save the union; Save Detroit; Save the planet!


Demonstrate Sunday, January 13 & Monday, January 14, 1:30-3pm across from Cobo Center in Downtown Detroit at the 2013 North American Auto Show

With all the talk about the successful turnaround of the Big Three, the spotlight needs to be turned on to the deteriorating working conditions autoworkers are facing. We were forced by the White House Auto Task Force to “sacrifice” during the bailout at GM and Chrysler. Concessions were incorporated into the current contracts with the Detroit Three. These included the elimination of COLA, time-and-a half only after 40 hours, loss of break time and holidays, expansion of two-tier and at GM of break time and holidays, expansion of two-tier and at GM The pacts sent a signal to workers: don't complain, just “be happy you have a job.”