The US United Auto Workers union qualified for partial recognition at the Volkswagen plant in Tennessee on Monday.
The deal gave the union its first formal role in a foreign-owned car plant in the southern US.
An independent auditor verified that UAW Local 42 had signed up at least 45 per cent of workers at the Chattanooga plant.
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
Cuba Solidarity Campaign secretary BERNARD REGAN says the inhuman blockade of Cuba not only continues, but the Donald Trump administration is ratcheting up aggression against both Havana and Latin America more widely



