Official UAW Strike 2023 Thread - Once Again It's On.....
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mastermind
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Another plant walked off today
Spidey Man
Superstar
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
Good stuff. Lets bring as many jobs home as we can and pay workers a living wage
Joe did by right by putting his thumb on the scale too, I'm sure the usual suspects will downplay that
Joe did by right by putting his thumb on the scale too, I'm sure the usual suspects will downplay that
BDB 
Did the unions sell out or are they supposed to strike forever? The purity gang doesn’t take kindly to doing deals with major corporations. 
obviously these people can be bought and sold and were never serious about the fight 
obviously these people can be bought and sold and were never serious about the fight 
Worthless Loser
Blackpilled
Its over. This paid off for the workers.
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
Collective organizing works.
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
UAW Tells Other Unions to Align Contracts to Set Up Possible National General Strike in 2028
Auto workers ask other unions in other industries to collaborate with them to "take on the billionaire class."
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When Shawn Fain was elected UAW president in March, he vowed “war against our one and only true enemy: multibillion dollar corporations. Now, after negotiating three very favorable contracts with Ford, GM, and Stellantis, the parent company of Chrysler, Fain said UAW set an expiration date of April 30, 2028 for a very specific reason.
“It’s a call to action,” he said in a speech announcing the Ford deal. “We invite unions around the country to align your contact expirations with our own so that together we can begin to flex our collective muscles if we’re going to truly take on the billionaire class and rebuild the economy so that it starts to work for the benefit of the many and not the few.” Fain added that this would allow for UAW and other unions to strike on May Day, which is also International Workers Day. Stellantis is a European conglomerate that owns Fiat Chrysler, Dodge, Ram, and a handful of other brands.
“If we are going to truly take on the billionaire class and rebuild the economy so that it starts to work for the benefit of the many and not the few, then it’s important that we not only strike, but that we strike together,” UAW added in a tweet.
General strikes, in which workers across industries all strike at once, have resulted in worker gains such as the eight-hour day, but have been incredibly difficult to organize in the United States in recent decades. This is because politicians have generally hollowed out union power over the course of decades, and because the United States has very little sectorial bargaining, where unions are allowed to negotiate across multiple companies at once. This means strikes, which remain very effective, are often limited to targeting one company at a time. There are some exceptions to this—the Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild of America strikes in Hollywood have been industry-wide, for example.
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The Sauce Apostle
It's worth watching one of the tentative agreement announcements where he stated the strategy. If anything just to hear him speak, and see his ability to work in labor history and the unapologetic use of the language of class warfare.UAW Tells Other Unions to Align Contracts to Set Up Possible National General Strike in 2028
Auto workers ask other unions in other industries to collaborate with them to "take on the billionaire class."
When Shawn Fain was elected UAW president in March, he vowed “war against our one and only true enemy: multibillion dollar corporations. Now, after negotiating three very favorable contracts with Ford, GM, and Stellantis, the parent company of Chrysler, Fain said UAW set an expiration date of April 30, 2028 for a very specific reason.
“It’s a call to action,” he said in a speech announcing the Ford deal. “We invite unions around the country to align your contact expirations with our own so that together we can begin to flex our collective muscles if we’re going to truly take on the billionaire class and rebuild the economy so that it starts to work for the benefit of the many and not the few.” Fain added that this would allow for UAW and other unions to strike on May Day, which is also International Workers Day. Stellantis is a European conglomerate that owns Fiat Chrysler, Dodge, Ram, and a handful of other brands.
“If we are going to truly take on the billionaire class and rebuild the economy so that it starts to work for the benefit of the many and not the few, then it’s important that we not only strike, but that we strike together,” UAW added in a tweet.
General strikes, in which workers across industries all strike at once, have resulted in worker gains such as the eight-hour day, but have been incredibly difficult to organize in the United States in recent decades. This is because politicians have generally hollowed out union power over the course of decades, and because the United States has very little sectorial bargaining, where unions are allowed to negotiate across multiple companies at once. This means strikes, which remain very effective, are often limited to targeting one company at a time. There are some exceptions to this—the Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild of America strikes in Hollywood have been industry-wide, for example.
I'm telling you guys, Sean Fain is a fukking superstar. This is everything we need in a national politician. This man is intelligent, determined and highly educated on the history of labor and the power of unions, and allows both to inform his strategy. His ability to inspire and lead the UAW membership, which has a sizable amount of republican voters, is a feat in itself, but he has earned majority support among democrat and republican voters with an explicitly leftist message.
Anyone who tries to tell you that the majority of the population are centrists and leftism is "too extreme" for most, is dead wrong. Sean Fain and his run as UAW president has clearly shown that focusing on working class issues is popular across all demographics.
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
I hear you, but he doing more impactful work as a labor chief. He goes to congress, and he is just one of those people.
Organizing labor against their bosses, without political squabbles, is better work and will inspire someone under him to get into politics and tap into that language.
I think he is better where he is and has direct access to workers across America.
But 100%, working class politics is always gonna win, which is why the capital class put candidates in both parties to not talk about class and labor.
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The Sauce Apostle
To be clear, I wasn't calling for Fain to enter national politics, just that we need a figure like him in national politics.
