Fain’s ascent to the UAW’s top office has taken the entire auto industry by surprise.to the Russian revolutionary.
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The new president and his executive board, many of whom ran as part of the same reform-minded caucus as Fain, are negotiating new labor contracts for about 146,000 hourly workers at , and , the global car company that now owns Jeep, Ram and Chrysler.
The existing contracts expire Sept. 14, and if a deal isn’t reached by then, Fain has said he is ready to strike—potentially not just one automaker but all three.
...
Under Fain, the union has brought forward a set of demands that includes winning back benefits that workers gave up in past talks to help the companies survive.
Fain, who started his union career as an electrician at a Chrysler plant in Kokomo, Ind., is also pushing for a shorter, 32-hour workweek and a 46% hourly wage increase over the four-year contract, which would be the largest in recent memory.
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Many in the industry worry he is setting workers’ expectations too high, which could make it difficult to get a deal ratified.
The White House, too, is on edge. Biden said last week that he was concerned about the possibility of a strike, which would be costly for the automakers and economically disruptive.
Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC’s investing show “Mad Money,” said the union’s demands were so aggressive they’d significantly weaken the U.S. auto companies. “This man studied Trotsky,” Cramer said during a broadcast this summer, referring
When asked about Cramer’s comments, Fain said he didn’t know much about Trotsky and joked, sarcastically, how central Indiana is known as a “fertile ground for cornfields and communism.” "
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/uaw-union-strike-shaw-fain-detroit-president-eb1bdd3f
On Sunday, September 3, 2023 at 11:06:18 AM UTC-4, ltlee1 wrote:referring to the Russian revolutionary.
Fain’s ascent to the UAW’s top office has taken the entire auto industry by surprise.
...
The new president and his executive board, many of whom ran as part of the same reform-minded caucus as Fain, are negotiating new labor contracts for about 146,000 hourly workers at , and , the global car company that now owns Jeep, Ram and Chrysler.
The existing contracts expire Sept. 14, and if a deal isn’t reached by then, Fain has said he is ready to strike—potentially not just one automaker but all three.
...
Under Fain, the union has brought forward a set of demands that includes winning back benefits that workers gave up in past talks to help the companies survive.
Fain, who started his union career as an electrician at a Chrysler plant in Kokomo, Ind., is also pushing for a shorter, 32-hour workweek and a 46% hourly wage increase over the four-year contract, which would be the largest in recent memory.
...
Many in the industry worry he is setting workers’ expectations too high, which could make it difficult to get a deal ratified.
The White House, too, is on edge. Biden said last week that he was concerned about the possibility of a strike, which would be costly for the automakers and economically disruptive.
Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC’s investing show “Mad Money,” said the union’s demands were so aggressive they’d significantly weaken the U.S. auto companies. “This man studied Trotsky,” Cramer said during a broadcast this summer,
When asked about Cramer’s comments, Fain said he didn’t know much about Trotsky and joked, sarcastically, how central Indiana is known as a “fertile ground for cornfields and communism.” "
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/uaw-union-strike-shaw-fain-detroit-president-eb1bdd3fBackground on UAW's aggressive demand:
"OVER THE past four decades American bosses have grown unused to labour unrest. Ever since Ronald Reagan sacked thousands
of striking air-traffic controllers in 1981, shortly after being elected president (and despite once leading the Hollywood actors’ union),
American trade unions have been relatively meek. America experienced an average of 17 big work stoppages (affecting 1,000 workers
or more) a year from 2000 to 2022, down from 84 annually between 1977 and 1999. Union membership has fallen from a peak of 20m
members in 1979 to just over 14m last year, split evenly between the public and private sectors. Just 6% of private-sector workers belong
to a union these days, compared with more than 20% in the 1970s.
This year a confluence of tight job markets, accelerating technological change (think ChatGPT) and rising public support for unions (which
enjoy a record 67% approval rate among Americans, according to Gallup, a pollster) has emboldened workers. Strikes are proliferating. There
have been 16 big ones in the country in the first seven months of this year, up from 11 in the same period in 2022 and the most since 2005.
Hollywood writers and actors are in a months-long standoff with studios. On August 30th 99.5% of unionised American Airlines flight
attendants voted to go on strike. Workers at Detroit’s big carmakers are threatening to follow suit."
https://www.economist.com/business/2023/09/07/a-strike-at-chevron-shows-a-reinvigorated-union-movement
From elsewhere: Sep 8,2023
"(Reuters) -United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain said on Friday the union representing 146,000 workers
wants a deal to avoid walkouts at the Detroit Three automakers but expects to go on strike against all of them
next week if they do not improve their contract offers.
With contracts set to expire next Thursday at 11:59 p.m. ET (0359 GMT next Friday), Fain said the union had
rejected General Motors, Ford and Chrysler parent company Stellantis North America and remained far apart."
Fain’s ascent to the UAW’s top office has taken the entire auto industry by surprise.to the Russian revolutionary.
...
The new president and his executive board, many of whom ran as part of the same reform-minded caucus as Fain, are negotiating new labor contracts for about 146,000 hourly workers at , and , the global car company that now owns Jeep, Ram and Chrysler.
The existing contracts expire Sept. 14, and if a deal isn’t reached by then, Fain has said he is ready to strike—potentially not just one automaker but all three.
...
Under Fain, the union has brought forward a set of demands that includes winning back benefits that workers gave up in past talks to help the companies survive.
Fain, who started his union career as an electrician at a Chrysler plant in Kokomo, Ind., is also pushing for a shorter, 32-hour workweek and a 46% hourly wage increase over the four-year contract, which would be the largest in recent memory.
...
Many in the industry worry he is setting workers’ expectations too high, which could make it difficult to get a deal ratified.
The White House, too, is on edge. Biden said last week that he was concerned about the possibility of a strike, which would be costly for the automakers and economically disruptive.
Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC’s investing show “Mad Money,” said the union’s demands were so aggressive they’d significantly weaken the U.S. auto companies. “This man studied Trotsky,” Cramer said during a broadcast this summer, referring
When asked about Cramer’s comments, Fain said he didn’t know much about Trotsky and joked, sarcastically, how central Indiana is known as a “fertile ground for cornfields and communism.” "
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/uaw-union-strike-shaw-fain-detroit-president-eb1bdd3f
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