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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 2 years ago (1 children)

finally, a union president who knows how to negotiate

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We don't negotiate with capitalists

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Strikember should be even better because it can last 3 months

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 51 points 2 years ago

Bring the Fain

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 46 points 2 years ago

Fuck I wish this guy was leading my union

[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 46 points 2 years ago
[–] BlueMagaChud@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago
[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago
[–] cricbuzz@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago
[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 39 points 2 years ago

"We Ourselves" 🇮🇪

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago
[–] Parent@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years 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?

[–] Teekeeus@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago

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

[–] duderium@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

Imagine this sets off other unions

[–] UhhhDunkDunk@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

Ball so hard

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago
[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago
[–] Serdan@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago

Unfathomably based. o7

[–] duderium@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[–] Civility@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago
[–] Nationalgoatism@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Hurricane fain makes him sound even more badass

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[–] sharkfucker420@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Fucking gigachad my god