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.

  • duderium [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    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!