“There were hundreds of good folks in Local 879 who protested favoritism and asked why we needed a union to compete? Why the speedup fight was not supported by the “reps”? Why injured workers were not forcefully assisted by the “reps”? How it was UNION to try to steal jobs from someone else? How a courageous, brilliant local newspaper editor could be restricted from publishing Solidarity, Truth, and Peace instead of war?
When the new and wrong uaw went down the hill to concessions and company unionism way back in the late 1970’s, we said then that if the Union went down this road, it would never stop. And so it has not stopped. Ford, GM and Fiat workers just voted to close four more plants at GM, three more at Ford, and a yet to be named number at Fiat. These “Contracts on our kids” mean a majority of voters voted to continue the poverty wages for the younger generation and deny them their Pension Rights that Carl Boye risked his life for — FOR ALL OF US.
No real UNION asks its members to vote to cheat themselves. And please think about what YOUR role is going to be now. We have to win back UAW rights and duties.”