A labor expert thinks the United Auto Workers’ ambitious pivot is a matter of survival.
since securing a big raise for its members in new contracts with the Big Three automakers—and according to UAW president Shawn Fain, it will beto efforts to organize not just the foreign-owned vehicle manufacturing plants of the South but Elon Musk’s Tesla as well.
Have Fain and the union been reading too much of their own press? The new deals with Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis—struck after a 45-day series of selective “stand-up” strikes at individual plants—have been widely hailed as wins for workers and are expected to be officially ratified by members in voting this month.
I could picture someone making a case that a lot of this is window dressing, and what really matters is exactly what the company thinks they can bear as far as lost production and what they need going forward for investment. Certainly there has to be impact behind the voice, and if you’re just out there making your case and hoping for the best, that’s not going to be an effective approach. But what the union did was time things.
The opposition won’t only be in the form of public resistance. If the UAW shows up and tries to organize, if it is able to get a showing of interest in holding a certification election, you can rest assured that the companies are going to fight that tooth and nail. But they’re also going to be proactive and do, for example,, raising wages 9 percent. They’ll be looking at things from wages to benefits to health and safety conditions, trying to keep themselves out of the news.
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