"We are not kidding ... We will do whatever it takes to protect our jobs, our members and the future of this plant."

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

If the auto industry is not the job maker of the future, what does long haul strategic organizing look like?

socialistproject.ca/2025/11/cana...

@debtcollective.bsky.social @latenantsunion.bsky.social @tenantpower.bsky.social have you seen anyone analyze this or organize against it?

Landlords would have us believe that they are taking on a risk, but, of course, tenants also take on risk. If humans were valued more than property, you could never construct a system where tenants collectively subsidize landlords en masse.

Anyway, public housing for all

You might say: but what happens if the tenant damages the property! Well, even in our current anti-human system, you could have a landlord make a damage request and ask tenants for compensation afterwards.

For a quick calculation:
- There are ~100 million renters in the US.
- From this source apartmentadvisor.com/national-ren..., let's say ~$800 per bedroom per month average
- Avg. deposit: 1 month rent

Not counting the rent itself, that's a ~$80 billion tenant-to-landlord wealth transfer

It somehow always *feels* like it’s ok, I’m not actually paying for this, I'll get the money back.

But another way to think about it (the correct way), is that when you zoom out the security deposit process is just a mass one-way transfer of wealth from tenants to landlords.

Read Daily Struggle's interview with Lear Roscommon workers at Local 1819 about how massive wage and benefit tiers continue to persist in the auto industry, especially without a sectoral strategy in the Independents, Parts, and Suppliers sector

dailystruggle.org/lear-roscomm...

UAWD actually went through a split. If you want to learn more about the dispute, check out UAWD's public email: mailchi.mp/b736ebbadeb0...

Especially links in the paragraph starting with: "You may have heard that there was an attempt to undemocratically dissolve UAWD by some of our former leaders

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And now the UAW is pointing to the USMCA negotiations, and saying they're demanding "a new worker-first trade deal."

But no UAW power has been flexed, so what concessions do we expect to win?

The UAW statement makes no mention of harms to Canadian autoworker. Well, they don't vote in UAW elections after all.
uaw.org/after-uaw-pr...

Accepting the zero sum logic of competition has been tried and tested, & it ends with race to the bottom dynamics for workers

So what is the bigger strategy here? Let us build up the US manufacturing base while we weaken yours, & then we'll work together?
thepointer.com/article/2025...

Our inaugural editorial lays out the case for why narrow reform is simply not meeting the current moment: dailystruggle.org/uawd-launchi...

How can you look at these economic trends and not conclude that something different is needed

Accepting the zero sum logic of competition has been tried and tested, & it ends with race to the bottom dynamics for workers

So what is the bigger strategy here? Let us build up the US manufacturing base while we weaken yours, & then we'll work together?
thepointer.com/article/2025...

"On August 27 at 10 p.m., an unofficial tally showed 526 yes and 515 no votes, with 41 challenged ballots. There were 1,200 eligible voters; turnout was over 90 percent."

labornotes.org/2025/08/kent...