Marick Masters writes for the Michigan Advance:
The UAW’s newly elected president, Shawn Fain, frequently denounces corporate greed and has proclaimed the union’s willingness to go on strike. In the past, the union has held strikes against one automaker at a time, most recently in 2019 against GM.
That could change this time.
“The Big Three is our strike target,” Fain has said. “And whether or not there’s a strike, it’s up to Ford, General Motors and Stellantis.”
The UAW has said it has more than $825 million in its strike fund to help workers make do without pay should they walk off the job.
Fain has declared that the union will no longer maintain the somewhat cozy relationship with the Big Three that led to major concessions in the past.
Many of the union’s other new leaders also are affiliated with the UAW’s Unite All Workers for Democracy caucus, which launched a successful campaign to require the direct election of the union’s top officials in 2022, with runoff elections held in 2023. They want to prevent a recurrence of a massive scandal that resulted in the federal prosecution of more than a dozen UAW leaders from 2017 to 2022.
Read more in the Michigan Advance.