the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
May 12, 2025
The UAW top leadership has held rallies calling on the auto companies to move work into plants that have “unused capacity.” Basically, what they are saying is, take work away from Canadian and Mexican auto workers and move it to the U.S.
Why the hell are they telling auto workers to fight each other over jobs, when the auto companies are the ones who caused the problem? You know why there is “unused capacity” in many auto plants? Because the auto companies have eliminated so many jobs though speed up that they are now building the same number of cars and trucks with half the number of workers. Every worker is doing the work two people used to do.
The way to have more jobs is to stop the speed up and put the jobs back the way they used to be. If there is a plant working only one shift, then cut the line speed in half and hire another shift to get the same production. That would get rid of “unused capacity.”
Auto workers in every country have the power to make a fight against speed up. But we can’t make a fight against the bosses if we are fighting against each other over jobs. When top union leaders try to pit auto workers here against auto workers in another country, they are covering for the companies and hiding who is really responsible for lost jobs.