As the Detroit International Auto Show opens January 9 and PR glitz is sprinkled everywhere, auto workers will be demonstrating against two-tier wages and the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement. We’ll say what auto workers and the whole economy need is a strong union, and retooled plants that can put the unemployed back to work building mass transit and renewable energy technology.
Days before, United Auto Workers President Bob King vowed that by the end of the year, the union would organize workers at one of the German- or Asian-owned factories in the U.S., the “transplants.”
Given our union’s track record of huge concessions to the Big Three, and its failure to ever win elections at Toyota, Nissan, Mercedes-Benz, or Honda, what’s new this time around? King outlined a new strategy: spend $60 million on a campaign to convince the companies to sign a set of 11 principles that would guarantee democratic elections.
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