Following a six-week-long targeted strike against Ford, Stellantis, and General Motors, the United Auto Workers (UAW) reached a tentative agreement on a new master contract with The Blue Oval in late October, which was ratified by members a couple of weeks later. That new deal includes some considerable investments on FoMoCo’s part in terms of products and production, including its Cyclone V6 engines, the EcoBoost Nano powerplants, the 2.0L Duratec I-4 engine, and both the 8- and 10-speed automatic transmissions, to name just a few. With that locked up in a contract previously scheduled to expire in late April 2028, the UAW is currently working on organizing non-union plants in the U.S. – but it’s also looking ahead a few years as well, according to The Guardian.
“We have to pay for our sins of the past. Back in 1980 when Reagan at the time fired patco workers, everybody in this country should have stood up and walked the hell out,” UAW president Shawn Fain said while speaking to union members at the UAW’s national political conference in Washington DC. “We missed the opportunity then, but we’re not going to miss it in 2028. That’s the plan. We want a general strike. We want everybody walking out just like they do in other countries.”
Fain noted that he wants to conduct this general strike on a specific day as well – May 1st, 2028 – which also happens to be otherwise known as International Solidarity Day, or May Day. The UAW reportedly rescheduled the end date for its new contracts with the Detroit Big Three automakers to coincide with this specific date, and is encouraging other unions to do the same.
A general strike would involve a mass action across multiple industries, but it’s something that hasn’t been terribly common in the U.S. after the Taft-Hartley Act was passed in 1947, which aimed to restrict secondary strikes.
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Makers should be planning wholesale restaffing or replacing entire facilities with new ones abroad as of today.
He's a communist
At least hes not a facist
No, he’s just an idiot that is going to cost lots of people their jobs.
Trump--record low minority unemployment, record middle class income, 500k mfg jobs, energy Independence, no wars.
You don't know what one is.
Communist have killed 100X that facist have
Keep it up, Fain. Let me tell you something:
I just bought a new F150, Lariat. It’s one month old and has 1380 miles on it. Between my trade-in, and the check I wrote for the balance, it cost me 76,000. The KBB value is 53,000. That’s a 23,000 loss in one month. Let that sink in for a while. You guys are finished and don’t know it yet.
Ford won’t post my comments. The truth hurts, don’t it?
Me Either but
Because I said democrats &unions
Are the downfall of America
Tell them the truth a few lines at a time
They are all slow to take in information so tell slow they might understand it and you can say what you want to hell with unions
My Lariat is a month old. 76,000.
KBB lists it at 53,000 value. 23,000 loss in a month. And they want more?
It list that much value when you drove it off the lot
Its easy for Fain to call strikes because he gets his pay weather the workers strike or not. What the UAW needs to do is vote that fool out.
Five years to prepare for a strike. Companies are no fools, there won't be much left to strike for. Everything of any value will be gone or non-unionized.
censored, again and not not bad work besides the word union
Another far left stooge who weakens the nation every time he speaks