The Hidden History of Workplace Resistance

The Hidden History of Workplace Resistance

October 26, 2013

When: Saturday Oct 26 – 1pm Where: Steelworkers’ Hall, 25 Cecil Street, Toronto The Hidden History of Workplace Resistance U.S. Autoworkers Speak Out Three prominent uaw shop floor activists describe current life on American assembly lines and keeping resistance alive. * At the height of the recent economic crisis auto companies were bailed out while workers’ concessions were accelerated and working conditions made even more brutal. * Profits are now at record levels again but pressures on workers continue. what are the barriers to fighting back? Speakers: * GREGG SHOTWELL: 30 years at General Motors. Machine operator turned rebel. Generally recognized as one of the most articulate voices of the U.S. working class. Author of Autoworkers Under the Gun. * SCOTT HOLDIESON: Electrician at Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant, writer and editor of the local union paper, long-time activist for union democracy and equality among workers. * SEAN CRAWFORD: Great grandfather was Vice Chair of the Flint sit-down strike and great grandmother and great aunt were part of the Women’s Emergency Brigade. Hired on as lower-waged (‘second-tier’) worker at GM. Intro: Sam Gindin, former Research Director of the (former) CAW Sponsors: Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly www.workersassembly.ca, Centre for Social Justice.