Support the ranking examination of the IWA-RFC to the death of Autwerkork Ronald Adams Sr.!

Ronald Adams, Sr. [Photo by Adams Family]

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The socialist party of equality and the World Socialist website Support the call of the International Workers Alliance of Richt and File Committees (IWA-RFC) for an independent examination of rank and file workers completely avoidable death of Ronald Adams Sr.

Ronald Adams Sr., a 63-year-old machine repair man, was crushed to death on April 7, 2025 in the Dundee-Motor complex in Southeast Michigan. According to the first reports, he was killed in the early morning when he had served a Cinetic washing machine in the 7300 department when an overhead guarantee unexpectedly fiance, captured it and fatally crushed his upper body.

Ronald was a widespread and beloved figure that was known throughout the work not only for his extraordinary skills, but also for his unshakable commitment to security. Adams had referred to employees as “the protector of the plant” and deserved the trust of his surroundings.

He leaves a large and grieving family. He was a committed husband of the Shanaia Stewart Adams, a proud father of 10 children and a grandfather of eleven years in their mixed family as well as a mentor and coach of many young people in his community. His death left a family offer and a job in mourning, with employees and relatives united in the demand for truth and accountability.

More than five weeks after Adam's death, Stellantis, the United Auto Workers (UAW) and the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Miosha) have no explanation for why this disaster occurred. There are more questions than answers: Was the safety blocking system compromised? Has the crane crane already working? Have a lack of employees, acceleration requirements or cost reduction measures contributed to the fatal incident? Which specific security violations or systemic errors made it possible?

On Wednesday, Miosha rejected an application for freedom of information (Freedom of Information Act), which was submitted by the WSWS, and claimed that the public would impair his investigation. Miosha's letter argued that “external interventions” could affect testimony and the integrity of the examination.

In fact, this is a serious reference to a cover-up coverage, an attempt to protect corporate and union officers from the exam, while preparing white wash to free those responsible.

While Miosha has the formal responsibility for the investigation of deaths in the workplace, it works within a state apparatus that holds the closest relationships with the companies. In order to uncover the truth and to hold those responsible, the examination of Adam's death must be taken into account by the employees themselves.

Another powerful argument for an independent investigation is the role of the UAW apparatus, which from the start acted as a partner in a cover-up of corporate states. The UAW was silent for more than three weeks after Adam's death.

Then, on the Memorial Day 28th April for workers, a fourth picture of social media image that Adams killed under a number of workers, and Kurz noticed that he was crushed by a sailing crane and claimed that the “incident” was examined by the joint department “UAW-STAILTIS Health and Safety”.

This was accompanied by a video with joint appearances by Stellis executives and the director of the Department of UAW-Stellatis department Kevin Gotinsky, in which they praised their “joint efforts” to maintain a secure job, while they were responsible for “unsafe acts” of workers. Since then, the UAW has retained a guilty silence.

The bureaucrats that control the UAW that are completely bound to company interests will do nothing. For decades, the trade union apparatus has been working in the glove with the automotive companies and successive democratic and republican administrations to suppress strikes, layoffs and inclinations and advantages in the name of “competitiveness”. Shawn Fain, the current UAW President, who was celebrated by the media as a “reformer”, has brought the same pro-corporate agenda.

This is an experience that every employee knows all too well regardless of the industry: a constant pattern of neglect, indifference and uncertain conditions, enforced corporate management – and a union apparatus that ignores symptoms and captures injuries and deaths under the carpet.

According to the AFL-CIO itself, over 140,000 workers in the United States die from dangerous working conditions-more than 5,000 from traumatic injuries and the rest of occupational diseases such as cancer, respiratory diseases and heart failure. That is more than 380 deaths every day in the industrial slaughterhouses in America. However, with fewer than 1,800 federal and state inspectors that monitor 11 million jobs, there is only one inspector for 85,000 workers each.

The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that almost 3 million workers worldwide die from work -related injuries and illnesses every year. Around 330,000 of them are the result of traumatic injuries, while more than 2.6 million are caused by chronic professional diseases such as cancer, circulatory failure and respiratory diseases. The global number of deaths is increasing – over 12 percent since 2000.

These astonishing numbers do not include the millions of people who have died of Covid-19 in the past five years, a virus that is quickly spreading in the workplaces in factories, warehouses, schools, offices and meat packaging facilities as companies and governments benefited and “business continuity”.

Adam's death is in the middle of a comprehensive offensive of the ruling class in order to disassemble basic workers' protection and to transfer prosperity to the capitalist oligarchy. The Trump administration disappointed Osha and considered the billionaire Elon Musk supervision, while it has promoted social cuts in the amount of $ 880 billion of $ 4.5 trillion for the ultra-rich-splitting medicare, social security and training under the banner of the “largest deregulation campaign in history”.

This attack is the highlight of decades of war war wars. Both Democrats and Republicans have led a historical wealth transfer from the bottom up. Since 1975, 79 trillion US dollars have been set to the top 1 percent of the lower ones, which now earn 139 -more than the poorest 20 percent. It was only last year that the 19 richest families increased their assets by more than 1 trillion US dollar.

Only the working class can reveal the truth about Ronald Adam's death. The initiative of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) is a critical and necessary reaction to the conditions of exploitation and danger with which workers are faced with every day. As the IWA-RFC explains:

There must be no further cover -up. An investigation of Stellantis, the United Auto Workers (UAW) and the state authorities is important to uncover the truth, uncover systemic security violations and prevent future deaths. Dundee workers, autokers in other plants, security experts and others with relevant knowledge must gain statements. Such an investigation by employees is crucial for the basis for the basis for the real monitoring of the security and production conditions in the factories.

This examination must be the spearhead of a wider struggle. The working class must intervene as a conscious, organized force and assert its own interests against the companies, the state and bureaucracy of the Union that defends it.

The WSWS and the socialist Equality Party are calling on the cars and all sections of the working class in North America and internationally to support the IWA-RFC's investigation and to join the fight in order to transform the auto industry into a public utilization company under the democratic worker control.

Workers who have information about the circumstances in connection with Adams' death or who want to report voluntarily for the investigation should fill out the following form. Support the fight to uncover the truth, to defend life and to build round committees as the basis for the power of employees.

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