by Justin | Jul 10, 2020 | Gregg Shotwell, Opinion
The pertinent question is: who will union members, police or otherwise, accept apartnership with? Will workers accept partnerships made with business moguls by bought-off union officials? Or will they strive for solidarity with other workers likethemselves?Will union...
by Justin | Jul 3, 2020 | COVID-19, Opinion, Social Issues
The Great Recession “recovery” abandoned working people, while introducing an insidious new discourse on economic recovery. We didn’t blame up. No bank, no CEO was ever held responsible for their immoral actions that almost brought our economy to a halt. Instead, as...
by Justin | Jun 16, 2020 | Administration Caucus, Opinion, UAW Corruption Scandal
Active and retired Flower Funders are flouncing around like weekend revolutionaries in flip-flops eager as cheerleaders to heap accolades on the latest International UAW President appointed by the crooked Ad. Caucus. Rory Gamble was installed as President by convicted...
by Justin | Jun 9, 2020 | Opinion
The citizens of this country are in the midst of a battle that we have been fighting for a very long time. A battle of racial inequality, systemic abuse, and injustice. It is time to win this battle once and for all. Across the nation over the past weeks, protesters...
by Justin | Jun 9, 2020 | Graduate Workers, Opinion
With a few notable exceptions, organized labor has overwhelmingly refrained from offering concrete support for the present uprising against anti-Black police terror. Statements of solidarity have trickled in, but such statements fall short of labor leveraging its full...
by Justin | Jun 8, 2020 | Opinion, Social Issues
Statement of UAW Region 9A Director Beverley Brakeman on the killing of George Floyd: On behalf of UAW Region 9A members living and working in New York, New England and Puerto Rico, we condemn the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, by four police...