This is the point. He’s telling the auto industry “look at how we won and how much it cost you. We’re gonna win again next time too. Up to you how much it’ll cost you next time.”
Nothing wrong with this strategy. Strikes are the last resort. It’s better to avoid a strike in the first place, and you can avoid the strike of the company is already aware of and afraid of your worker power.
Fain and the UAW has very clearly demonstrated their worker power this year. He’s signalling that he’ll do it again next time and giving the auto makers a way out.
2028 also means pressure on the next presidential campaigns, which they’ve shown that they care about. Every possible candidate will be weaker in the next election cycle compared to our current race, which is the incumbent versus a person half the republican party thinks is literally the incumbent.
This is the point. He’s telling the auto industry “look at how we won and how much it cost you. We’re gonna win again next time too. Up to you how much it’ll cost you next time.”
Nothing wrong with this strategy. Strikes are the last resort. It’s better to avoid a strike in the first place, and you can avoid the strike of the company is already aware of and afraid of your worker power.
Fain and the UAW has very clearly demonstrated their worker power this year. He’s signalling that he’ll do it again next time and giving the auto makers a way out.
2028 also means pressure on the next presidential campaigns, which they’ve shown that they care about. Every possible candidate will be weaker in the next election cycle compared to our current race, which is the incumbent versus a person half the republican party thinks is literally the incumbent.