UAW president Shawn Fain calls for other unions to prepare for general strike on May 1, 2028
UAW president Shawn Fain calls for other unions to prepare for general strike on May 1, 2028
full video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT9XpLEmy9U
Protect this man
He needs a body double. Or repeated exposure to the Havana Syndrome gun to build resistance.
Also preemptive baboon heart transplant to nullify the CIA heart attack gun.
We're about oh,
5 years off from the news media just being like ARE THE RUMORS TRUE? DID SHAWN FAIN REND A BABY IN TWAIN?
He‘s got that moral vest
If I had kids I'd name them Shawn Fain Jr.
edit: all of them.
Why 2028?
The UAW just finished negotiating a new contract with the "Big 3" auto manufacturers: Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis (fka Fiat Chrysler). The contract includes things such as a 25% wage increase for all UAW workers, return of Cost of Living Adjustment, removal of some of the wage tier systems, higher wages for temporary and new workers, bonuses to 401k and pension plans, and the right to strike over plant closures.
The new contract is going to expire on April 30, 2028. Shawn Fain is asking for other unions to prepare for a strike at the same time so that all unions involved will have greater collective bargaining power.
In the longer video Shawn Fain says:
We demanded a longer contract because one of our biggest goals coming out of this historic contract victory is to organize like we've never organized before. When we return to the bargaining table in 2028, it won't just be with the "Big 3" but instead with the "Big 5" or "Big 6".
I believe Shawn Fain is alluding that the UAW is attempting to unionize other car manufacturer companies in the next 5 years.
UAW posted key points of the speech in this twitter thread:
https://nitter.net/UAW/status/1718800729266082186Time to get it organized
This could be huge.
If you see an increasing number of "As a leftist, fuck socialism" psyops in the coming years, just remember it's because they're scared.
If you aren't for socialism, you aren't a leftist.
Literally the bare minimum tbh
now this is how you do a general strike, not just posting about it on twitter
I'd argue posting it out there for years made the idea more palatable for people
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Take your time bro, no rush
Well, the past decade has been full of Twitter leftists "declaring" an imminent general strike with predictably zero results. So if this actually materializes, it will be a great accomplishment despite taking four and a half years.
I can’t help it, but any time I hear the name “Shawn Fain” I just think
I love this because it's like setting up a prophecy. Remember that 2012 Mayan doomsday thing? People actually thought we were gonna get raptured or some shit. Setting up this strike this far in advance only increases the likelihood that it'll actually happen, imo. Especially since - even here on Hexbear - any other time anyone mentions the concept of a general strike, a fuckload of naysayers start aggressively shredding its wings before it can even get off the ground.
It's partly because "people mentioning a general stroke" is always just "a bunch of people mentioning a general strike" online without the support of a single actual union.
I think people will get behind this one, this one has firepower behind it. Still needs to grow but damn, we're cooking with gas
Setting it so far in advance could also make people antsy to strike immediately, so there could be some predecessor organizing in the meantime
I get very skeptical of calls for a general strike that don’t have any contacts in or support from a single union. A wildcat strike is already a long shot gamble. A wildcat general strike needs real specific conditions that we aren’t even close to.
???When do we get a Shawn Fain emoji
Kinda gives a game away a little bit (?)
Big strikes have no need to be secret
This is the point. He's telling the auto industry "look at how we won and how much it cost you. We're gonna win again next time too. Up to you how much it'll cost you next time."
Nothing wrong with this strategy. Strikes are the last resort. It's better to avoid a strike in the first place, and you can avoid the strike of the company is already aware of and afraid of your worker power.
Fain and the UAW has very clearly demonstrated their worker power this year. He's signalling that he'll do it again next time and giving the auto makers a way out.
2028 also means pressure on the next presidential campaigns, which they've shown that they care about. Every possible candidate will be weaker in the next election cycle compared to our current race, which is the incumbent versus a person half the republican party thinks is literally the incumbent.
Turns out “no security through obscurity” applies to job security too
Prophet Fain has come with a message from the godhead.
Seriously though, this should get top billing at every org meeting in the Anglosphere. Day of Rage, Day of Revolt.
Another goal should be to increase the number of unions throughout the economy (not just auto industry). Including white collar brothers and sisters.
It is! UAW specifically has been involved in graduate student unionization drive
That could be read as somewhat cynically including members who won't stay members long enough to rise into any leadership positions.
It's been a struggle to fight off the business union shitters scattered around union leadership. In ours, we had some rather nasty intra-union conflict in the recent strike we did. I'm glad we got Shawn Fain elected though. There was a pretty big institutional push against him where I'm at, but we managed to organize past it.
checks notes 2028
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