Jarod Facundo wrote for The American Prospect about the Big Three’s transition to electric vehicles:
On September 14, the UAW master agreement with the “Big Three” of Ford, GM, and Stellantis (formerly Fiat Chrysler), representing some 150,000 workers, will expire. In previous contract negotiations, the union’s president would kick things off by shaking hands with auto executives for a photo op. [Shawn] Fain, who was elected in March, is the first president of the union’s 87-year run to win a direct election of the members. He decided to meet with workers instead.
It was a break with a history of one-party rule by the prior leadership, which led to official corruption and what Fain’s reform movement, Unite All Workers for Democracy, has condemned as collaboration with management. “From this day forward we’re doing things differently,” Fain told local TV stations in Detroit. “It’s up to the Big Three where we end up.”
Read more in The American Prospect.