{"id":326849,"date":"2017-09-20T05:27:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T04:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/for-an-international-strategy-to-win-the-cami-workers-strike\/"},"modified":"2017-09-20T05:27:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T04:27:37","slug":"for-an-international-strategy-to-win-the-cami-workers-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/for-an-international-strategy-to-win-the-cami-workers-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"For an international strategy to win the CAMI workers strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>For an international strategy to win the CAMI workers strike<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter<br \/>\n    <br \/>19 September 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p> The <em>World Socialist Web Site<\/em> <em>Autoworker Newsletter<\/em> calls on autoworkers throughout Canada, the United States and Mexico to mobilize in support of the strike by 2,800 GM Canada workers at the CAMI assembly in Ingersoll, just east of London, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>The CAMI workers have shut the assembly lines at one of the most productive and profitable facilities in GM\u2019s North American manufacturing empire. Workers at the factory are subjected to relentless speed up, labouring three shifts a day, six days a week to produce 300,000 of GM\u2019s hot-selling and lucrative Equinox sports utility vehicles annually.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first strike at CAMI in a quarter of a century and the first at one of the Detroit-based automakers in Canada since the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) briefly struck GM in 1996. The Ingersoll factory, which operates under a separate labour agreement, has repeatedly been used to set concessionary benchmarks that are then used to extort rollbacks from workers across the Detroit Three\u2019s plants.<\/p>\n<p>CAMI workers have said enough is enough to speed-up, multi-tier wages, the expansion of \u201ctemp\u201d positions, and the corporate assault on jobs. Since the financial crash and GM\u2019s 2008-09 restructuring, autoworkers across North America have seen their living standards continue to plummet even as GM sits on a cash hoard of $22 billion and showers its top investors and executives with billions in dividends and stock buybacks.<\/p>\n<p>But CAMI workers cannot fight this corporate giant alone. The company is already making plans to ramp up production at other factories in Canada, the US and Mexico to offset the impact of the strike. GM has the backing of all the corporate-controlled&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/09\/19\/cami-s19.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 For an international strategy to win the CAMI workers strike By the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter 19 September 2017 The World Socialist Web Site Autoworker Newsletter calls on autoworkers throughout Canada, the United States and Mexico to mobilize in support of the strike by 2,800 GM Canada workers at the CAMI assembly in Ingersoll, just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-326849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}