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General Motors has again idled its flagship Factory Zero plant in Detroit, temporarily laying off the 1,300 workers on the last shift left running at the factory. The layoffs are part of an escalating wave of job cuts throughout the auto industry, carried out with the complicity of the UAW bureaucracy. | ||||||||
GM had adjusted profits of $12.7 billion for 2025, following record profits of $14.9 billion in 2024. The company spent $6 billion on stock buybacks for wealthy investors — while workers are thrown out of their jobs. Workers produced that wealth. They should not be sacrificed to further enrich shareholders. | ||||||||
The UAW apparatus has not called a single membership meeting, organized a single protest, or issued a single concrete demand to stop these layoffs. The bureaucracy's silence is not passivity — it is complicity. The chauvinist nationalism of Fain and the UAW apparatus aligns them directly with Trump, pitting American workers against their brothers and sisters in Canada, Mexico, and around the world. | ||||||||
Workers at Factory Zero and other plants should build rank-and-file committees to enforce a zero-layoff policy and the return of all laid-off workers to their jobs. The transformation of the auto industry must be placed under democratic workers' control and reorganized to meet social needs, not the further enrichment of wealthy shareholders. | ||||||||
William Lehman for UAW President | ||||||||
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