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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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[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 82 points 1 year ago (1 children)

finally, a union president who knows how to negotiate

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We don't negotiate with capitalists

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year 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.

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

Strikember should be even better because it can last 3 months

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

Bring the Fain

[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

Fuck I wish this guy was leading my union

[–] BlueMagaChud@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago
[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago
[–] cricbuzz@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago
[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 year ago

"We Ourselves" 🇮🇪

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago
[–] cynesthesia@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

Brutal. Savage. Wrecked.

[–] Parent@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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?

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

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

[–] duderium@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year 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!

[–] Chump@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 28 points 1 year ago

Imagine this sets off other unions

[–] UhhhDunkDunk@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

Ball so hard

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago
[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago
[–] Serdan@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

Unfathomably based. o7

[–] Civility@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago
[–] duderium@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] duderium@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Nationalgoatism@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Hurricane fain makes him sound even more badass

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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!!!!"

[–] AbbysMuscles@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] sharkfucker420@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Fucking gigachad my god