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Interview

Autoworkers of the World Unite in India

Martha Grevatt March 16, 2026March 26, 2026

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.

Analysis | News

Ford Busts Union and Fires 1,600 Workers as Kentucky BlueOval SK Plant Closes—How Can the UAW Fight Back?

Martha Grevatt March 9, 2026May 6, 2026

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.

Analysis

Boom and Bust: Understanding Layoffs and the Restructuring of the US Auto Industry

Daily Struggle Editorial Board December 23, 2025March 9, 2026

Layoffs are devastating to us as workers, but we’re trained to think of them as inevitable or even “natural.” If we understand the corporate profit-seeking that drives layoffs, we can fight for our jobs.

Analysis

Fighting Layoffs: Learning from UAW History and Taking Control of Work Reductions

Nevena Pilipović-Wengler, Andrew Bergman December 10, 2025March 9, 2026

The recent large-scale layoffs across General Motors plants and beyond are raising questions for workers everywhere. We can accept the boom-and-bust corporate logic of the auto industry, or workers can fight to win real layoff protections and control over how reductions in work are carried out, by collectively deciding how we share remaining work.

Event

Stories of Struggle from the Shop Floor: Highlights from our Launch Event

Daily Struggle Editorial Board November 6, 2025November 13, 2025

UAWD leaders share their experiences organizing collectively with their coworkers to grow our class struggle movement. Watch them describe how they are building rank-and-file militancy, collectively fighting boss intimidation, and deepening cross-border solidarity to realize our internationalist vision.

Analysis

Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is an Attack on the Entire Working Class

Julian G, Peter Racioppo October 30, 2025November 6, 2025

Trump’s mass deportations are not just an attack on immigrants—they are an assault on the entire working class. But with union leaders largely on the sidelines, it falls to rank-and-file workers to organize the fightback that can stop it.

Editorial

A Class Struggle Vision: Why UAWD Is Launching Daily Struggle

Daily Struggle Editorial Board October 19, 2025July 15, 2026

It’s us vs. them! To face the threats to the working class and build a better world, UAWD believes a vision of class struggle for the UAW is essential. We must advance from individual examples of militancy, cohering a movement that can combat the entire global system of exploitation.