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https://archive.ph/2023.09.17-210927/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-09-17/uaw-strike-2023-inside-the-union-walkout-against-gm-ford-stellantis

Enter Fain, the first UAW president to be directly elected by the membership, after two of his predecessors and their underlings did prison time for spending union funds on golf clubs, luxury lodgings and steak dinners with champagne and cigars.

Months after his swearing-in this March, Fain bucked convention by not holding handshake ceremonies usually attended by the three companies’ CEOs and union leadership to kick off contract negotiations.

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[-] [email protected] 88 points 2 years ago

finally, a union president who knows how to negotiate

[-] bdonvr 28 points 2 years ago

We don't negotiate with capitalists

[-] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago

yes, but part of managing a conflict is allowing escalation to develop slowly. ultimately, class consciousness has to develop to the point where the class realizes they don't need the capitalists and are better off expropriating them. but to get there you're going to have to negotiate in the mid-term or you're going to get replaced by the people you represent because it looks like you're not actually fighting for their interests. demands that the workers want but which the bourgeoisie can never grant are critical jn this process.

[-] [email protected] 69 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

vigorously manifesting striketember, as a little treat lathe-of-heaven

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately, the genie was a Redditor and you got Eternal September instead, doomed to an influx of liberals for all eternity.

lathe-of-heaven

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Strikember should be even better because it can last 3 months

[-] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago

Bring the Fain

[-] [email protected] 51 points 2 years ago

Fuck I wish this guy was leading my union

[-] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago

[-] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago

sicko-pog

[-] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago

lets-fucking-go

[-] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago

sicko-speeeeen

[-] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago

"We Ourselves" 🇮🇪

[-] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago

sicko-pog

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago

Anyone else read the last paragraph and think it's cringe that the great grandson of Henry Ford can still be in a high up position after four generations? Didn't Ford have to get bailed out?

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

I think it's funny that American car companies are still in business

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

We don’t live in a monarchy, it’s perfectly normal for eighteenth-generation failsons to control every major company in the country because the MARKET decides!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Ford was actually the only us automaker to not get a bailout in ‘08. Still obviously run like a feudal monarchy tho

[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

Imagine this sets off other unions

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

Ball so hard

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

nicholson-yes morello-shred

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Fain should push back against this the same way Lynch did in the UK. He's an elected representative of his members and the membership collectively votes to perform these actions. There's more democracy in what they're doing than in what the company wants to do.

Giving him a nickname like "Hurrican Fain" and constantly making this his decisions and his ideas is about covering up the fact this is the collective discontent of 150,000 workers. It makes it sound like it's just about 1 man and plays into the union barons shit they always want to push.

It makes him sound cool as fuck and it's good that they have actually good leadership but pushback is needed.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

sicko-wholesome

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

party-blob

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Unfathomably based. o7

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

inb4 wsws.org criticizes the union leadership at least as much as they criticize henry fucking ford’s grandson

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Great. You made me check. Yep. Still malding about how the unions are bad, actually, for not busting out the guillotines.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I would love it if they busted out the guillotines. But I’ll take what I can get.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Hurricane fain makes him sound even more badass

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"You haven't met the UAW, I have! They're not proles, they're brutal!! You have to be ready."

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

porky-happy : "You really shouldn't support unions, their leadership is all corrupt and criminal."

union-man : elects someone who isn't corrupt and who won't rub shoulders with porky-happy

porky-scared : "No no no, this new leadership is too brutal!!!!"

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Give them hell! Next step, arming the picket lines. That ought to light a fire under some asses

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Fucking gigachad my god

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