The voice of UAWD, from the frontlines of the class struggle, by and for UAW members
Martha Grevatt is a retired member of UAW Local 869 and currently serves on the UAWD Steering Committee. She was a Trustee of Local 869 and before that a Trustee of Local 122. Grevatt is also a managing editor of Workers World newspaper.
For the US labor movement, the UAW’s divestment from Israel bonds, decided by members at the union’s 39th Constitutional Convention, in June 2026, after decades of rank-and-file organizing, marks a significant step toward making international solidarity a reality—but there’s still a long way to go.
Stellantis is shutting down its Brampton, Ontario, plant, devastating a Canadian community while saying it is sending jobs to the U.S. Instead of enabling Stellantis to execute on its whipsawing playbook, UAW leadership and U.S. autoworkers should unite with Unifor and Canadian autoworkers. Our union should be promoting a class struggle strategy of resisting plant closures by exerting control over production and building cross-border worker solidarity.
The International Autoworkers Conference (IAC) took place in Pune, India from November 20 to November 24, 2025. This was the third IAC; the first took place in 2015 in Germany and the second in South Africa in 2020. Martha Grevatt talks with conference delegates from Brazil, Germany, and the U.S. about the shared struggles that autoworkers are engaged in internationally, the state of the industry, the upcoming International Day of Action for Stellantis workers, and the meaning of class struggle unionism.
Workers at BlueOval SK, who recently unionized with UAW, lost their jobs in February as the joint venture between Ford and Korean battery manufacturer SK On was dissolved and as Ford pivots from EV battery to energy storage manufacturing. UAW members can build the capacity to challenge plant closures through a sectoral strategy that combats whipsawing and enables workers to fight for one another.
A shorter work week with no cut in pay: an idea whose time has come. With everyone working fewer hours, there would be more jobs.
