Vote no on UAW betrayal at Ford! Elect rank-and-file committees for contract fight!

Auto workers should emphatically reject the surrender by the United Auto Workers union to Ford Motor Co. and mobilize their full strength to defend their jobs and living standards.

Like the contracts at GM and Chrysler, the UAW-Ford agreement gives the automaker a green light for more plant closings and mass layoffs. Ratification of the contracts at General Motors and Chrysler was followed within days by mass layoff announcements from both companies. The same will happen at Ford if this contract is passed.

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A political movement, independent of both corporate-controlled parties, must be built by the working class based on a fundamentally different social principle: Economic life must be organized not to serve corporate profit and private wealth, but rather the needs of working people and society as a whole.

The vast industries upon which modern society depends can no longer be the private domain of corporate executives and Wall Street speculators. The auto industry must be transformed into a public enterprise, democratically controlled by working people.

	US auto workers denounce UAW betrayal at Ford	World Socialist Web Site	Wed Nov 7	0
	Ford, UAW Reach Tentative Contract Deal	Associated Press	Fri Nov 2	0
	BBC NEWS | Union agrees pay deal with Ford	BBC News	Tue Nov 6	1
	Ford Workers to Vote on Tentative Pact	Associated Press	Mon Nov 5	0