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[Justine McCabe]

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Subject: [CTpeace-activists] Reminder!! Labor Forum this Thursday!!


The Crisis in the Labor Movement and What Can Be Done about It.

A Talk by Bill Onasch of Labor Standard

Thursday, December 8
7 PM
Marcus White Building Living Room, 2nd Floor
Central Connecticut State University
(For campus map and directions, visit http://www.ccsu.edu)

Auto has long been America's most important industry, the main engine 
of the
world's richest economy. Autoworkers set the standard for wages and 
benefits
that once enabled millions of blue-collar workers to pursue the 
"American
Dream."

Today auto workers are under attack. General Motors has exacted 
billions of
dollars in concessions from the United Autoworkers. GM's largest parts
manufacturer, Delphi, is slashing wages by as much as 50%. Ford and
Daimler-Chrysler are expected to follow suit.

What is happening in auto will soon embolden the corporations to demand 
even
more from the entire North American workforce. The bosses are not going 
to be
satisfied until the conditions of all North American workers are 
competitive
with those endured by the super-exploited work force of the 
under-developed
world.

What will it take to rebuild a fighting, militant labor movement that 
is up to
this challenge?

Bill Onasch is a member of United Auto Workers Local 1981, the National
Writers Union, as well as a retired member of Amalgamated Transit Union
Local 1287. Onasch is the Midwest chapters representative to the Labor 
Party
Interim National Council. He is also an executive board member of US 
Labor
Against the War and the webmaster of Kansas City Labor, www.kclabor.org.

[For a glimpse into the issues that will be raised in Bill's talk see
www.kclabor.org/crisis_in_auto1.htm and click on analytical articles.]

Sponsored by Connecticut Socialist Action, 860-478-5300.
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