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Workers at the vast majority of UAW-вЂњrepresentedвЂќ plants donвЂ™t even know weвЂ™re striking, because the union has kept them in the dark. What does the вЂњsolidarityвЂќ of Ray Curry and the UAW bureaucracy actually look like? are constantly afraid workers will take matters into their own hands, and launch a strike wave outside their control. They know how discredited they are in workersвЂ™ eyes. The UAW executives are desperate to save face. As a brother put it replying to CurryвЂ™s announcement on Facebook ( one of hundreds of angry comments): вЂњLord knows they have enough to give everyone on strike $1,000 per week.вЂќ We workers built up that fund with our dues, and it rightfully belongs to us. Second, the strike fund is not a вЂњbenefitвЂќ to be granted or taken away from on high. It comes out to roughly a $10 hourly wage, half or less what many CNH workers normally make. UAW President Ray Curry said in the patronizing statement, вЂњOur striking members and their families deserve our solidarity, and this increased benefit will help them hold the line.вЂќДЇirst, $400 remains totally inadequate to meet our needs. On Tuesday, the UAW International announced it would be raising strike pay to $400 a week. To date, we have been starved on just $275 a week in strike pay. While the company is playing hardball, however, the UAW is carrying out a strategy which is sabotaging our strike. They know well enough that we would have massively rejected any such contract, just as our brothers and sisters did last year where workers at Deere and at Volvo Trucks voted down UAW TAs by 90 percent margins. Vice President Chuck Browning and the other UAW big-wigs didnвЂ™t dare bring CNHвЂ™s slap-in-the-face вЂњfinalвЂќ proposal to a vote.

In other words, CNH, despite record profits, is out for blood and wants to impose concessions all down the line. TheyвЂ™re bringing in scabs and paying them far more than theyвЂ™re willing to give us, and theyвЂ™ve cut off our health benefits. According to UAW reps, management is refusing to budge on its demands for below-inflation raises, no COLA, higher health insurance payments, no restoration of pensions or health benefits for retirees, and no relief on overtime. One month into the strike, itвЂ™s time to carefully take stock of where we are and reevaluate our strategy. For decades we have gone backwards, but the Deere strike showed us itвЂ™s our time to win back what weвЂ™ve lost, and more. We entered into this struggle knowing it would be a fight, but did so because we could no longer tolerate low wages, rising health costs, 55-hour-plus workweeks and the destruction of a secure retirement. It is more than one month since we launched the first strike against CNH since 2004.

#MOSTRECENT UAW STRIKE DOWNLOAD#

Download a printable version of the statement here. To find out more about getting involved with the committee, email, or text вЂЄ(262) 676-2381. The following statement was issued by the CNH Workers Rank-and-File Committee on June 7.

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