GM attacks workers

The GM bankruptcy will mean 21,000 GM manufacturing jobs will be done away with. The closing of dealerships is estimated to do away with over 100,000 jobs. So over 120,000 jobs altogether and at the same time billions of taxpayers money is being handed over to the company. The Obama regime represents the capitalists just like the Bush regime before it. The workers are going to be made to pay. 

The United Auto Workers are going along with this. The leaders of this union refuse to use their power to force the nationalization of the company and all the auto industry under workers control and management with compensation only on the basis of proven need.  This lack of lead increases the feeling amongst workers that there is no alternative to bankruptcy. I heard a worker interviewed yesterday and he was saying how good GM had been to him. The steam was coming out of my head with anger. It was the workers struggles over the past decades that had forced GM to give decent benefits and wages for a while. It was not that GM had been good to workers. 

The way to deal with the crisis in auto is to build opposition in the UAW, to build fighting Hands of our Jobs, Wages and Benefits in the workplace, link these us nationally and internationally in a campaign of mass direct action, occupations, mass mobilizations, and force the nationalization of the entire auto and auto supply industry under workers control and management with compensation only on the basis of proven need. And proven need to be decided by democratically elected committees of rank and file workers.  Part of this program that would be fought for would also be a shorter work week, no lays, and the preservation of health care and pension plans. 

Sean