Autoworkers Under the Gun

Workers' rights are not defined by law or contract. Workers' rights are defined by struggle. These biting shopfloor bulletins chronicle a decade of autoworker resistance to ever-expanding concessions pressured upon them by union bureaucrats and company men alike. Offering a takedown of both the union-management partnership approach and the "bankruptcy as a business plan," Live Bait & Ammosummons a rank-and-file call to action for a new generation crashing the gates of recession-torn American Dreams. Gregg Shotwell, a machine operator turned rebel writer, worked thirty years at General Motors. His shopfloor fliers grew legs of their own, distributed by Rank-and-Filerand cited by auto industry analysts.

Gregg Shotwell, a machine operator turned rebel writer, worked thirty years at General Motors and Delphi as a member of the United Auto Workers. He lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.