Tamino Wilck

Kandidat der @gleichheit zur Europawahl 2024.

[Will Lehman | WillforUAWpresident.org @WillforUAWpres]

I discussed union concerns and the fight for rank-and-file power with a fellow autoworker at Sterling Stamping in Detroit, Michigan.

[Will Lehman | WillforUAWpresident.org @WillforUAWpres]

A high-ranking official of the United Auto Workers apparatus and supporter of UAW President Shawn Fain has posted a death threat against me. I will not be intimidated, and this campaign will not be stopped. I call on all workers to oppose this act of intimidation. Statement below

[Will Lehman | WillforUAWpresident.org @WillforUAWpres]

This morning, I was confronted by my union rep and was told that campaigning at the UAW constitutional convention could cause my company to fire me. I reported this to the federal monitor in this letter below.

If I am being threatened with termination for fighting for the rank and file at a union convention, I can't imagine what other workers are facing in terms of intimidation. I have watched the UAW bureaucracy treat multiple delegates here in an anti-democratic manner, and I was told by multiple long-time UAW members that this is the least democratic convention they have ever seen. Workers must take action against these betrayals.

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Dear Monitor:

At around 9 AM this morning, in the hallway outside the floor of the convention, Mr. Lehman was threatened with being terminated from his job for campaigning for delegates to nominate him. Local 677 President Mike Shupp approached Mr. Lehman and told him that UAW International Representative for Heavy Trucks Doug Irvine communicated to Mr. Shupp that Mr. Lehman could be fired from his position at Mack Trucks. Mr. Shupp communicated this threat to Mr. Lehman by saying that if Holly Georgell, Director of Employee and Labor Relations at Mack Trucks, found out Mr. Lehman is campaigning for his nomination at the convention, he could be fired.

Election Rule 4-4's "Freedom to Advocate" provision states, "Any threats, intimidation, retaliation, penalty, discipline, or improper interference of any kind, or any similar conduct is strictly prohibited, and reports of such violations shall be investigated by the monitor." Election Rule 4-5,'s "Retaliation and Discrimination" provision states that the proscription of "threat of retaliation" against a Union member "specifically includes each member's freedom...to run for or seek to run for International office as a Candidate."

As a result of these threats, Mr. Lehman has temporarily stopped campaigning outside the convention hall out of fear of losing his job. Mr. Lehman has lost several hours of campaigning time as a result of the intimidation. The harm is irreparable if not remedied immediately--today.

We demand that the Monitor initiate its obligation under the rules to conduct an investigation into the intimidation of Mr. Lehman, including by investigating whether other delegates are being threatened if they nominate Mr. Lehman. The proper remedy for the ongoing violation is for Mr. Lehman to be given 5 minutes to address the full convention before the nomination of candidates.

[Johannes Stern @JSternWSWS]

"Stoppt den #Krieg gegen den #Iran!" ► Mein Vortrag an der @HumboldtUni ist jetzt auch auf Video verfügbar. Nochmal vielen Dank an die @IYSSE_DE für die Einladung. https://t.co/MzNzK4638p

[Ulaş Sevinç @UlasWSWS]

Başaran Aksu'ya ve tüm işçi sınıfı tutsaklarına özgürlük!

Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal, herkesi, 1 Mayıs öncesi, işçi sınıfı tutsaklarını savunmaya & serbest bırakılmalarını talep etmeye çağırıyor.
#BaşaranAksuSerbestBırakılsın
#DoğukanAkanSerbestBırakılsın

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

Turkish channel TV5 interviewed me last night (April 8) on the subject of the US-Israeli war against Iran. I stressed the urgency of building a mass working class movement against war on the basis of a socialist and internationalist program.

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

Trump said: "An entire civilization will die tonight." We declare our solidarity with the people of Iran. The working class of the world must oppose this monstrous crime. It must be stopped.

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

Just now, Polyak miners in Izmir, Türkiye, on wildcat strike broke through the gendarmerie barricade and occupied the mine.

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

Statement by David North, national chairperson of the Socialist Equality Party (US), opposing the war and calling for an immediate end to the illegal attack on Iran.

[Will Lehman | WillforUAWpresident.org @WillforUAWpres]

Sanders went to a UAW conference and called undocumented workers “criminals,” said we should “deport” them and demanded a “strong border.”

That’s the same nationalist poison used by Trump to divide workers.

Abolish ICE! No human being is illegal.

[Will Lehman | WillforUAWpresident.org @WillforUAWpres]

Workers of the world, unite!

We need International unity: American, Canadian, & Mexican workers against the corporations.

Immigrant workers are our class brothers and sisters.

Immigrant & 1st-generation workers built the UAW in the 1930s. We need that unity today!

[Will Lehman | WillforUAWpresident.org @WillforUAWpres]

I'm announcing my campaign today for president of the UAW.

I'm a Mack Trucks worker from Macungie, PA.

My campaign will mobilize the rank and file to

1) abolish the corrupt UAW bureaucracy
2) put all power in the hands of workers

Class struggle, not class collaboration!

[Eric Lee @EricLeeAtty]

Says the man who built the Dilley detention center where hundreds of children are protesting for their basic rights.

[Eric Lee @EricLeeAtty]

@Chuibluengold88 Revolution.

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

"ICE is just terrorizing the city." "Minneapolis is being targeted first but this is going to happen in other communities... Networking is going to be more and more important, and not just thinking about your own community but thinking about other communities as well."

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

ICE/CPB/police threatening tear gas and arrests against protesters following another ICE murder in Minneapolis this morning. This is the response to the massive popular eruption yesterday.

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

Today's cold-blooded execution of a citizen of Minneapolis is Trump's response to yesterday’s powerful demonstration against ICE’s reign of terror. It is urgent that workers build a rank-and-file movement for a nationwide general strike!

[Eric Lee @EricLeeAtty]

I,'m told by detainees at Dilley that 80 pct of facility currently protesting--that would be ~1500. Guards physically blocking ppl from joining. Dozens of ICE CBP police cars racing to area. Detainees say protest triggered by news of events in Minneapolis & treatment of 5 yr old.

[Eric Lee @EricLeeAtty]

From r/Minneapolis: video appears to show ICE shooting (killing?) someone else just now at 26th and Nicollet.

I have no way to confirm this but here's the video. (From u/pecos_chill)

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

"On Friday it's a general strike. No work, no school. If we can shut the economy down, that's the goal. Shut it down. No ICE. Get out. Workers have to take the power... It doesn't sound like the Teamsters are backing us up." UPS worker in Minneapolis