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.
finally, a union president who knows how to negotiate
We don’t negotiate with capitalists
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.
vigorously manifesting striketember, as a little treat
Unfortunately, the genie was a Redditor and you got Eternal September instead, doomed to an influx of liberals for all eternity.
Strikember should be even better because it can last 3 months
Bring the Fain
Fuck I wish this guy was leading my union
“We Ourselves” 🇮🇪
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?
Tangentially related fact: most of the land on anglo island is apparently still owned by the descendents of the norman conquerers, a literal millennium after the event
I think it’s funny that American car companies are still in business
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!
Ford was actually the only us automaker to not get a bailout in ‘08. Still obviously run like a feudal monarchy tho
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Imagine this sets off other unions
Ball so hard