Vote 'no' on UAW sellout at Chrysler! Elect rank-and-file committees for contract fight!

It sanctions the destruction of virtually all of the gains won by generations of auto workers. If ratified, it will have catastrophic consequences for active, retired and future auto workers.

UAW President Ron Gettelfinger and Vice President General Holiefield have traded the jobs, wages, pensions and health benefits of UAW members for the right to control a multibillion-dollar VEBA trust fund. GM, Ford and Chrysler will be turned into low-wage sweatshops while top union officials become wealthy corporate executives.

This historic betrayal—the culmination of decades of UAW collusion with management—demonstrates that from the standpoint of the workers’ interests, the UAW is dead and cannot be revived. Auto workers need to free themselves from the grip of the UAW and build new organizations of struggle entirely independent of the union bureaucracy.