MEETINGS ON CRISIS IN THE CAR INDUSTRY

How workers of Ford in Europe are fighting back

1 July: Luton
2 July: Birmingham
3 July: Oxford
4 July: London

The crisis in the car industry is hitting hard.

Union leaders have been responsible for negotiating shorter weeks and pay cuts.
But where workers have taken decisive action important victories have been
won. By striking and occupying plants, and the [...]

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Swansea Linamar workers to strike in support of sacked convenor

Workers at the Linamar plant in Swansea have voted in favour of an all-out strike in support of sacked union convenor Rob Williams.
Following the sacking of Unite union convenor Rob Williams at the Swansea Linamar plant, other workers have voted to strike to have their colleague reinstated. It is understood that turnout for the vote [...]

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Belfast Ford/Visteon workers victory – “10 times old offer”

Belfast Ford/Visteon workers vote to accept deal
Ford/Visteon Belfast workers today (Sunday 3rd May) voted 147 to 34 to accept the deal already accepted on Friday by Enfield and Basildon Ford/Visteon workers.
But workers have pledged that the occupation in Belfast, and 24hr pickets in Enfield and Basildon, will continue until the deal is signed, sealed and [...]

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Electronics workers save their jobs in France

After an occupation and strike lasting over six weeks workers at the FCI
Microconnections in Mantes-la-Jolie have saved their jobs.
The strike began on February 24th with workers demanding assurances on their
future. Management refusal to give information on production at an equivalent
factory in Singapore and an announcement that there was ‘overstaffing’ led
workers to believe that the [...]

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Visteon factory worker occupations mini documentary

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Post-Fordism in Belfast, Northern Ireland

The Ford motor company has had a parts factory on the Finaghy Road in West Belfast for years. In 1980 there were 1400 employees working there. By the year 2000 that had been reduced to about 550 or 600. At least some of that decline in the labour force is attributable to machinery improvements creating [...]

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Car Industry: Articles on Libcom

The following articles relating to the car industry can be found at : http://libcom.org/tags/auto-industry
 
Audio interview with Visteon occupier
 
Audio interview with Unite convenor at the occupied Visteon plant in Belfast, John McGuire.
 
Car factory occupations spread across the UK

Sacked workers from the car parts firm Visteon have been occupying three factories across the UK since Wednesday.
 
Canadian auto-workers [...]

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Honda proposes pay cuts for Swindon staff

Workers at the firm’s factory in Swindon, which is not producing any cars at the moment, are set to receive a letter from the company stressing how “dire” the situation was for car manufacturing.
An official at the Unite union said negotiations were yet to be held on the company’s proposals.
An increasing number of companies are [...]

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Car factory occupations spread across the UK

Blog for the occupation of the Visteon Ford car parts plant in Enfield, north London which began when 200 workers were dismissed with no redundancy pay.
http://libcom.org/tags/visteon-occupation
http://libcom.org/forums/news/workers-occupy-visteon-factory-31032009

Sacked workers from the car parts firm Visteon have been occupying three factories across the UK since Wednesday.

The action began with an overnight sit-in at the Visteon plant in [...]

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Ford Factory Occupation

The Visteon automobile factory (owned by Ford) in has been occupied this morning by workers who were sacked yesterday.
Yesterday workers at the 3 factories owned by Ford Cars subsidiary Visteon in Basildon, Enfield and Belfast were called into the offices by management at 2pm and laid-off with immediate effect. They were not even given time [...]

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