Labor's Disaster at American Axle
Against The Current vol. 137

http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/1936
Date Written:  2008-11-01
Publisher:  Against The Current
Year Published:  2008
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX13452

The 87-day strike earlier this year at American Axle & Manufacturing (AAM) ended in a rout that has devastating implications for the organized U.S. labor movement. Begun on a snowy morning early February 26, the strike ended on May 22, a late spring day just before the Memorial Day weekend.

Subject Headings

• Labour-Industry Relations
• Labour Organizing
• Labour Unions
• Strike Support
• Strikes
• Strikes: United States
• Union-Management Relations
• Union Organizing
• Unions