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reasonsforhope · 7 months

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Seven thousand more UAW members just walked off the job, expanding the strike to two more plants. Twenty-five thousand autoworkers are now on strike, and the walkout could continue to escalate if the Big Three don’t budge in negotiations.

[UAW president Shawn] Fain announced that Stellantis would be spared this time. The union had been expected to strike all three companies, but, said Region 1 director LaShawn English, three minutes before Fain was scheduled to go on Facebook Live, the UAW received frantic emails from company representatives.

[Note: Love that for the UAW. Also laughing so hard. Three minutes before the next round of strikes were annouced!!]

According to Fain, Stellantis made “significant progress” on cost-of-living allowances, the right not to cross a picket line, and the right to strike over product commitments and plant closures. “We are excited about this momentum at Stellantis and hope it continues,” Fain said...

“See You Next Week — Maybe?”

“These guys wanted to go out a long time ago,” said Cody Zaremba, a Local 602 member at the Lansing GM plant after the news broke that his plant would be joining the strike. “We’re ready. Everybody, truly, I believe, in the entire membership. They’re one with what’s going on.”

Five thousand workers at thirty-eight parts distribution centers across twenty-one states have been on strike since last Friday [September 22, 2023], along with thirteen thousand at three assembly plants in Michigan, Ohio, and Missouri who walked out on September 15. (See a map of all struck facilities here.) ...

The UAW is now calling on community supporters to organize small teams to canvass dealerships that sell and repair Big Three cars and trucks. On Tuesday, the union issued a canvassing tool kit with instructions, flyers, press releases, and talking points.

In negotiations with Ford and GM, autoworkers have clinched some important gains. Among them is an agreement by both companies to end at least one of the many tiers in current contracts, putting workers at certain parts plants back on the same wage scale as assembly workers. The top rate for Big Three assembly workers is currently around $32...

Ford was spared in last week’s escalation, because bargainers there had made further progress on gains for workers.

But today, the UAW once again called out workers at Ford and GM, putting some muscle behind its bold demands — a big wage boost, a shorter workweek, elimination of tiers, cost-of-living adjustments tied to inflation, protection from plant closures, conversion of temps to permanent employees, and the restoration of retiree health care and benefit-defined pensions to all workers.

-via Jacobin, September 29, 2023. Article continues below.

Keep Them Guessing

This year, for the first time in recent history, the union has played the three auto companies against each other with its strike strategy, departing from the union’s tradition of choosing one target company and patterning an agreement at the other two.

The stand-up strike strategy draws inspiration from an approach known as CHAOS (Create Havoc Around Our System), first deployed in 1993 by Alaska Airlines flight attendants, who announced they would be striking random flights. Although they struck only seven flights in a two-month period, Alaska had to send scabs on every plane, just in case. The unpredictability drew enormous media attention and drove management up the wall. Meanwhile the union was able to conserve its strength and minimize risk.

The companies miscalculated where the UAW was going to strike first, stockpiling engines and shipping them cross-country to the wrong facilities. Autoworkers relished the self-inflicted supply chain chaos on UAW Facebook groups and other social media platforms.

Nonstrikers’ morale on the factory floor has gotten a boost from rank and filers organizing to refuse voluntary overtime. With support both from Fain and the reform caucus Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), workers have been encouraging each other to “Eight and Skate,” meaning to turn down extra work and decline to do management any favors.

Majority Public Support

A majority of Americans support the UAW strikers, and the Big Three have taken a PR hit since the strike began, according to a new survey conducted by the business intelligence firm Caliber.

“Eighty-seven percent of respondents told us they were aware of the strike,” Caliber CEO Shahar Silbershatz told the Intercept. “It’s clear the strike is not just causing commercial repercussions, but reputational repercussions as well.”

These reputational repercussions will only worsen...

"We Can Unmake It"

Fain didn't pull any punches in his speech... “That’s what’s different about working-class people. Whether we’re building cars or trucks or running parts distribution centers; whether we’re writing movies or performing TV shows... we do the heavy lifting. We do the real work. Not the CEOs, not the executives.

"And though we don’t know it, that’s what power is. We have the power. The world is of our making. The economy is of our making. This industry is of our making.

“And as we’ve shown, when we withhold our labor, we can unmake it.”

-via Jacobin, September 29, 2023

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60000beesinatrenchcoat · 8 months

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WE GOT ANOTHER ONE, BOYS

UAW is on strike against Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis (fiat chrysler/french psa group merger) as negotiations fail to meet UAW’s ambitious demands as auto companies are recording near-record profits.

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#uaw strike #uaw #strike #uaw strong #automotive #General Motors #ford #chrysler #fiat

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soon-palestine · 5 months

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#uaw strong #uaw #palestine #free palestine #permanent cease fire #end the occupation #gaza #stop the genocide #The American Postal Workers Union #ALU

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makingdonalddrumpfagain · 3 months

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#uaw strong

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head-post · 6 months

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UAW reaches tentative agreement with Ford to end workers’ strike

The United Auto Workers (UAW) union reached a tentative agreement with Ford on Wednesday, moving forward a 41-day standstill at the Detroit Big Three car manufacturers.

The UAW reported the agreement, which rank-and-file workers must still approve by vote, included a 25 per cent wage increase for hourly employees. UAW President Shawn Fain stated:

For months we’ve said that record profits mean record contracts. And UAW family, our Stand Up Strike has delivered.

In addition to wage increases, workers are also demanding guaranteed cost-of-living adjustments; the elimination of different pay levels or “tiers” that disadvantage junior staff; as well as the right to strike over plant closures.

Read more HERE

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bunnyhugs22 · 7 months

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#uaw strike #uaw strong #Biden #union solidarity

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sleepyleftistdemon · 3 months

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The United Auto Workers union has thrown its support behind President Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election.

UAW President Shawn Fain announced the endorsement during the union's national Community Action Program conference in Washington D.C. on Wednesday afternoon.

Fain spoke to members about the issues facing the working class, and gave an impassioned speech, supporting Biden and bashing former President Donald Trump, who is the leading Republican presidential candidate for 2024.

"Donald Trump is a scab. Donald Trump is a billionaire, and that's who he represents," Fain said. "If Donald Trump ever worked in an auto plant, he wouldn’t be a UAW member. He’d be a company man, trying to squeeze the American autoworker. Donald Trump stands against everything the UAW stands for," he said.

Fain also talked about Biden appearing on the picket line with striking UAW workers in September, a rare instance of a sitting president joining an ongoing strike.

#news #uaw strong #450 #genocide joe

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vivian-at-home · 7 months

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Let me know how that works out . . .

From the BBC

This has the potential to get pretty ugly IMHO. I'm sure what he meant was that their negotiations and future hopes are toast if they don't vote for him; because no one would be stupid enough to provoke a bunch of hard working union guys who are on strike by calling them out before he even visits, right? Right?

#uaw strong

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personal-blog243 · 7 months

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#united auto workers #uaw strike #uaw strong #please sign and share #petition #petitions #please sign this petition #please share #please sign #hot labor summer #labor rights #labor organizing #solidarity forever #labor movement

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soldierofmisfortune13b · 3 months

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#trump2024 #donald trump #republicans #fox news #maga #blacklivesmatter #uaw #uaw strike #uaw strong

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troythecatfish · 4 months

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buckeyeinthebluegrass · 4 months

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#uaw #uaw strong

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aberration13 · 6 months

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UAW's trying to get unions to align their next contract expirations for a potential may day 2028 general auto workers strike!

It's still a ways out but I did not think this would be possible this soon, this is great news!

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lg5 · 6 months

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After killing the child tax credit, this miserable SOB is going after new rules that allow employee unions to be recognized immediately when the company breaks the law and fires them or punishes them, like Starbucks has done repeatedly. Fellow party traitor Sinema may join him. If you live in Arizona or West Virginia, contact their office via https://ceasefiretoday.com/ and bring this up too.

#Ceasefire now #free palestine #free gaza #sagaftra strong #Starbucks Union #uaw strong #Joe Manchin #Kyrsten Sinema #call them out

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b3aches · 6 months

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UAW and Ford reach a tentative deal on a new contract

The United Auto Workers union and Ford have reached a tentative deal on a new contract on Wednesday, nearly six weeks after the union embarked on an unprecedented strike against all of the Big Three automakers. The agreement with Ford still needs to be reviewed by the UAW leadership at Ford, and then it would need to be ratified by a majority of union members at the automaker. But UAW President Shawn Fain called it a "historic agreement" in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.