🧵1. Virtuous cascade effect —-> U.A.W. organizing drives are coming to nonunion shops like Tesla, BMW, Honda and Toyota. To dodge that bullet, nonunion firms will probably have to raise the wages of their employees.

#UAWStrong #UAW #GM #Ford #Stellantis #Tesla #BMW #Honda #Toyota

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/business/economy/gm-uaw-contract-deal.html?unlocked_article_code=1.60w.YaVx.KWfziXG3TRVA&smid=url-share

U.A.W. Strikes Near an End After G.M. Reaches Tentative Deal

Tentative accords at Ford Motor, General Motors and Stellantis are the most generous in decades, raising costs as the industry shifts to electric vehicles.

The New York Times

Looks like a clean sweep for the #UAW thanks to a strategy inspired by the one that led to the first employer recognition of a union in the early 20th century. Well done.

#UAWStrong #GM #Ford #Stellantis

G.M. Said to Reach Tentative Deal With U.A.W. - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/business/economy/gm-uaw-contract-deal.html

U.A.W. Strikes Near an End After G.M. Reaches Tentative Deal

Tentative accords at Ford Motor, General Motors and Stellantis are the most generous in decades, raising costs as the industry shifts to electric vehicles.

The New York Times

@gburg @JamesRhodes @CarolDanvers

#Michigan #UAWStrong

Trump is absolutely terrible, tries to convince workers they're asking for too much. This from a "billionaire" smh 

I stand with blue-collar Joe, not bronzer Trump. #UnionStrong #UAWStrong #WGAStrong #SAGAFTRAStrong
At literally the last minute I remembered I had press passes to go see New Orleans sludge-metal band #Crowbar at Angel City in Manchester NH courtesy of https://hippopress.com.
It was loud as all hell but it sure felt like home being around all the broken heathen crazies. The band's people were super nice. ❤️
Didn't get a chance to talk much with singer/guitarist Kirk Windstein, but his wife Robin (pictured with Kirk) was very helpful.
Kirk is totally OG, he was in a superband with some guy from Pantera for a while. They use Randall amps, mostly because of the effects he likes to use; he knows Randalls suck but they work in their setup.
I didn't get along with the club's bouncer too well, but he wasn't all that mean, just struck me the wrong way. I told him the club could make a lot more money with all-ages shows, but it's their funeral, he was like, well, kids can always go to shows at SNHU arena. Lol pretty dumb😹
Anyway, yay, happy Sunday, #UAWstrong!

🧵1. The new president of the #UAW, Shawn Fain, is the first to be elected in a truly democratic process in decades. He has pierced the twin illusions of managerial infallibility and control with a strike plan inspired by the strategy that led to union recognition in the auto industry in the 1930s.

#uawstrong

https://theintercept.com/2023/09/19/uaw-strike-auto-plants/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

Confused Automakers Braced for Strike at the Wrong Plants

The Big Three automakers stalled production and moved parts out of plants across the country ahead of the strike, according to rank-and-file UAW members.

The Intercept
Why is it when workers demand a living wage, it'll negatively impact the consumer but when CEOs take their massive paychecks the consumer is never mentioned? #unionstrong #unions #uawstrong #UAW #uawstrike

"May 23rd is the anniversary of the largest mass arrest in Rochester, NY history, during a successful general strike to support city workers in 1946. Police arrested over two hundred strikers that day, but also caught up in the sweep was a school teacher on her way to work, a passing plumber, and a picketer’s dog (the dog, my favorite part of this pic)."

#uawstrike
#UAWStrong
#UAWworkers
#Strike
#detroit
#Michigan
#RochesterNY
#newyork
#usa

Skyrocketing CEO Pay Is Fueling a Historic Auto Strike

YouTube

Hard ball in order to turn the nonunion employees against the unionized workers and public opinion, too. No way a 5-day-old strike has effects requiring this move. #UAW needs to get THAT message out and hang tough. #UAWSTRONG

https://www.commondreams.org/news/gm-ford-layoffs

'Their Plan Won't Work': UAW Rips GM and Ford for Laying Off Workers Amid Historic Strike

United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain accused the companies of "trying to put the squeeze on our members to settle for less."

Common Dreams