"Brutal"
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 companiesā 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" š®šŖ
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?
I think it's funny that American car companies are still in business
We donāt live in a monarchy, itās 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 ā08. Still obviously run like a feudal monarchy tho
Imagine this sets off other unions
Ball so hard
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.
Unfathomably based. o7
inb4 wsws.org criticizes the union leadership at least as much as they criticize henry fucking fordās grandson
Great. You made me check. Yep. Still malding about how the unions are bad, actually, for not busting out the guillotines.
I would love it if they busted out the guillotines. But Iāll take what I can get.
Hurricane fain makes him sound even more badass
"You haven't met the UAW, I have! They're not proles, they're brutal!! You have to be ready."
Give them hell! Next step, arming the picket lines. That ought to light a fire under some asses
Fucking gigachad my god