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Declaration of solidarity to UAW on strike from shop stewards of trade union IG-Metall of the final assembly area of a Siemens plant in Krefeld - Germany
13 October 2023: Dear colleagues at General Motors, Ford and Stellantis. With your joint strike you are an example for all of us and set an important sign how the struggle against corporations and capital has to be conducted today! We congratulate explicitly and declare our solidarity.
Touch one – touch all! Call of the ICOG for active solidarity with the strike of the UAW in the USA
10 October 2023: Dear Colleagues, Despite a widespread media boycott, the already 4-week strike of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union against the "Big Three" (GM, Ford, Stellantis) has attracted worldwide attention. The list of international expressions of solidarity is long and an important trump card in the "historic strike". There are already 25,000 colleagues in the "Stand Up" strike. Thousands more are ready to fight. The UAW and its members have prepared for a long labor struggle. The strikers' will to fight and their self-confidence are high. A large majority in the USA is still behind them. The bosses of the international auto monopolies of the "Big Three" also know this. Meekly, they have already announced individual concessions to the workers and their union. We call on them to fulfill the justified demands of the UAW comprehensively and immediately. Workers will not be satisfied with crumbs.
Mercedes colleagues Sindelfingen - Solidarity greetings to the UAW / USA
We, Mercedes colleagues from the Sindelfingen plant, send you solidarity greetings and support your strike. We are active members of IG Metall Germany and internationally in the International Automotive Workers' Conference. Our program is: No struggle must stand alone, we are automobiles and colleagues. Your strike is just right in the situation where inflation is increasing worldwide and the burden of war and crisis is being shifted onto the working masses. To this end, you have put forward important demands, such as the reduction of working hours with full wage compensation, the right to strike against plant closures and for wage increases against inflation and against low-wage groups. Your strike has historic significance to strike together with all three corporate employees of the "big three" in the USA. We are committed to making your struggle known, to organize a common strike day, for the preservation of all jobs, for a wage supplement, for a reduction in working hours with full wage compensation and for a legal right to strike on all sides. We wish you continued strength and success for your strike! Mercedes colleagues Sindelfingen - Solidarity greetings to the UAW / USA
Offensiv Opel Bochum - Solidarity with the strike of the UAW
10 October 2023: Dear colleagues of the UAW, we send you warm greetings of solidarity from the spare parts warehouse of Opel/Vauxhall (Stellantis) in Bochum (Germany), and we wish your courageous strike a full success! Not only your demands for a wage increase of 36 percent over four years and for a reduction of working hours with full wage compensation are completely justified in view of inflation and job destruction in the conversion to electric mobility. Your decision to push through these demands with a determined strike also deserves the unconditional support and solidarity of all workers!
Solidarity with striking UAW workers from IG Metall MAN Nuernberg Germany
International Automotive Workers Coordination, Committee Ford Cologne, Germany - Declaration of solidarity to the colleagues of the UAW/USA
8 October 2023: IAC Committee "Workers Solidarity Cologne": Dear colleagues, we send you militant greetings for your strike. We are colleagues from Ford in Cologne, active trade unionists in the IG Metall and work in the International Automotive Workers Coordination (www.automotiveworkers.org). This organization is committed to the international cooperation and coordination of the struggles of the automotive workers. No struggle should stand alone. This is a point of our struggle program, which we decided at the 2nd International Automotive Workers Conference 2020 in South Africa. We urgently want contact and cooperation on this, especially with our Ford colleagues in the USA.
Solidarity greetings to UAW colleagues on strike from the colleagues of the International Automobile Workers' Coordination in Braunschweig and Wolfsburg - Germany
Dear colleagues of the UAW, We colleagues from Volkswagen-Wolfsburg stand in solidarity with your impressive strike against the big three (Ford, GM and Stellantis) and wish you continued strength and success! We car workers have to stick together worldwide, we must not let ourselves be divided.
Zoom Meeting October 12 on the Global Fight for a Just EV Transition and a Shorter Work Week
International Automotive Workers Coordination International Information Letter GM-Stellantis No. 23 - October 2023 From the Stellantis/GM Group Coordination in the IAC.
3 October 2023: Dear Colleagues, It is a great omission on our part as Group Coordination that we have not issued an International Information Letter for quite some time! For more than a year and a half, a war has been raging in Ukraine which is unjust on both sides and which involves an escalation towards a third world war. The danger of war is also intensifying in East Asia, in the Caucasus or in West Africa. A global environmental catastrophe also endangers the existence of mankind. We workers together with the peace-loving people all over the world must put a stop to those responsible at the top of corporations and governments!
The United Front expresses its solidarity with the UAW and its members who are on strike.
25 September 2023: Dear Shawn Fain, Dear colleagues of the UAW, on September 15th, a significant moment in American labor history unfolded when United Auto Workers (UAW) members initiated targeted strikes. These strikes occurred after their union contracts with the "Big Three" automakers (Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis, the parent company of Chrysler) expired without new union agreements being reached. The United Front (International Anti-Imperialist United Front Against Fascism, War, and Environmental Destruction) expresses its solidarity with the UAW and its members who are on strike.
No struggle should stand alone anymore! Cross-border solidarity, coordination and cooperation are the order of the day!
Documented from website of International Miners Conference: 25 September 2023: The 3rd International Miners’ Conference (IMC), held from 31 August to 3 September 2023, was a great step forward in the international union of the world’s miners. 35 experienced delegates from 19 countries exchanged opinions and experiences and decided with great seriousness on even closer and more powerful cooperation in the future.
UAW threatens to expand strike as deadline approaches
Documented from IndustriALL website: 21 September, 2023 IndustriALL affiliate, the United Auto Workers (UAW) is entering its sixth day of strike, and UAW President Shawn Fain has issued a stern warning: unless Ford, General Motors, or Stellantis, collectively known as the Big Three, make substantial progress towards a fair agreement by Friday 22 September, the strike will escalate.
Correspondence from UAW Strike and Solidarity Message from Mexico
20 September 2023: Correspondence: Thank you, most sincerely, for your message of Solidarity with our historic strike against The Big Three. ... I am ... participating in the strike here in Toledo, Ohio at the Stellantis Jeep factory. After 46 years as a Jeep worker, I am participating in the first official strike at Jeep. The last official strike took place in 1972. We have strong public support with about 75% of the American people supporting our struggle. We will win.
Solidarity greetings to the United Auto Workers, UAW, on your "historic strike" against the "Big Three"
18 September 2023: Dear Shawn Fain, Dear colleagues of the UAW, It is with great respect that international media are reporting the start of your "historic strike." Your demand for a 40 percent wage increase, for the reinstatement of eliminated social benefits, and for a 32-hour workweek, 4 days a week, are just and long overdue. It is the outrageous arrogance of the international monopolies, which rake in huge profits and then claim that wage increases would drive them into bankruptcy. Your simultaneous strike against the Big Three, GM, Ford and Stellantis, is a most promising and courageous struggle that has already received worldwide attention and great solidarity. It is of high significance that you, as a major automotive union, have taken up this challenge head-on. In doing so, you have breathed new life into the reawakened American labor and trade union movement. Your fighting spirit radiates across borders worldwide.
IAC Ford Info Letter 1/23
Overview Ford colleagues from Spain, France, Venezuela and Germany had positioned themselves in spring 2022 with a resolution against the war in Ukraine, against war and armament policies of their own governments and for active resistance (see Infobrief 1/22).
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