Pro-Company Unions Betraying Workers

[Holy_Seduction]

Ultium Cell workers in Lordstown, Ohio support Clarios strikers: “Everyone needs to stand together​

‘If further proof is needed that the United Auto Workers apparatus is seeking to isolate and betray the three-week-long strike by 525 Clarios battery workers near Toledo, Ohio, it can be found not far away in Lordstown, Ohio. There, the UAW has not even informed the 1,100 workers at the Ultium Cell factory, who make batteries for General Motors, that the strike is taking place.’

The UAW is no worker organization. Local 12 has done nothing to lead, defend, expand or explain the strike of 500+ Clarios battery makers near Toledo, Ohio.

In recent days, wsws.org published a call for Clarios workers to organize strike support committees to do the work that anti-labor unions refuse to lead.

went to Lordstown , Ohio, they learned that local 12 had not even informed Ultium cell makers that their sister and brother workers were striking.

Ultium workers are very supportive of the striking Clarios workers. But it wasn’t the UAW or the democrats who were there on the ground, leafleting and explaining the Clarios strike — it was the Socialist Equality Party.

The same holds true for the Clarios plant in Hanover, Germany. German section SEP supporters visited that Clarion plant. Workers had heard nothing about a strike in their company by US workers.

Traditionally, unions have been a Democratic Party stronghold. Now, workers are breaking away from what they correctly see as pro-company unions that refuse to conduct powerful strikes even when it is overwhelmingly supported by their membership.

Unions, traditionally strongly Democratic, struggle to keep the lid on a membership that is increasingly determined to break out of union constrictions. This doesn’t bode well for democrats.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/05/27/gskb-m27.html

 

[VinnyVeritas]

Maybe Democrats should follow the jobs overseas and run pro-union campaigns there...

 

[Holy_Seduction]

Democrats will have to decide that for themselves. I’m SEP myself, and identify with the ICFI. We abandoned unionism decades ago. We now focus on Rank-and-File Committees independent of republicans, democrats and unions.

Our strategy is to conduct proletarian struggle on two fronts. On one hand, we oppose the corporate-administration alliance, and on the other, we oppose their union enablers, who are effectively integrated into management.