“Can the International UAW Concession Caucus reform itself with a self appointed ethics committee? I watched a video of our new UAW International President, Rory Gamble, speak at UAW Region Nine and he said they could with a gleam in his eye.
I must say he appeared to be a fun guy to have a beer with. He certainly presents better than Yokich. Of course, that’s no compliment. Yokich was a thug and he made no bones about it. I remember and recorded in Live Bait &Ammo #3 the most appalling moment of the 1998 UAW Constitutional Convention was when President Yokich, referring to the Caterpillar strike, said, “Don’t let anyone tell you we didn’t win that.” Then he swung a left hook at a shadow and yelled, “Goddamn it!” He was delusional, or drunk, or a dramatically pathological liar.”
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About Brother Shotwell — Gregg Shotwell, a machine operator turned rebel writer, worked 30 years at General Motors. His shopfloor fliers grew legs of their own. Workers all over the country and abroad downloaded Live Bait & Ammo and commandeered company copiers to spread what Gregg calls, “the vigor of truth and the ruth of rebellion.” His growing notoriety led reporters in his hometown to question: “Is Toyota scared of this man?” UAW bureaucrats pretend he doesn’t exist, but auto industry analysts and reporters cite his work, and online labor media like Socialist Worker, Labor Notes, and the Monthly Review post his articles, poems, and satires with unreserved enthusiasm.
You can purchase Gregg’s book, “Autoworkers Under the Gun,” at Haymarket Books.