Contract negotiations are ongoing between the United Auto Workers and the Big Three automakers — Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis. Last month, 500 UAW members at the Ford plant in Louisville, Kentucky, held rallies in preparation for a potential strike.

cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/586752

In past negotiation cycles, the UAW has chosen one of the Big Three legacy automakers (Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis) as a strike target, picking the company the union believed would agree to the best deal in order to set a pattern for the remaining two.

This time, the UAW has broken from this practice — UAW president Shawn Fain has said all three companies are targets, leaving the companies guessing.

  • @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2•10 months ago

    Good. We need more direct action, given how everything workers have had to deal with has gotten consistently worse on average since the Reagan administration started deregulating everything.

    • jimmydoreisaleftyOPEnglish
      1•10 months ago

      true, but to a degree we need to keep informing people of what is possible

      since they don’t pay attention nor have the time to

      I speak to people randomly when out and about and they seem to have given up on change

      I do try to change my way of interacting though, to see if I can improve my way of informing and learning from people