Shawn Fain, the first UAW president elected directly by members, is working to coordinate the union's messaging from the bottom up to build pressure on the Detroit Three.
United Auto Workers leaders in the United States are laying the groundwork for what they believe could be a powerful weapon in this year's contract talks with the Detroit Three: an engaged, informed membership.
"We're going to do things differently this round of negotiations," Fain said at the nearly half-hour town hall."This fight's not going to be won by [leadership]. This fight's going to be won because our members are informed, our members are organized, and they're united." The leaders struck a defiant tone at times, using charts and graphics to contrast abundant corporate profits with stagnant union wages. Fain said the Detroit Three had, over the past decade, made a quarter of a trillion dollars —"that's trillion with a 'T,' as in, 'time to pay up' " — or enough to have collectively purchased every pro baseball, basketball and hockey team and still have billions left over.
Mock last week said the union wasn't afraid of the possibility of a walkout, noting that the 2019 strike cost GM $3 billion . "A strike can be costly, so that's something you want to be pretty transparent about," said Art Wheaton, a labour expert at Cornell University."The members will have to prepare their wallets and their own personal budgets."
"I think they're trying to reduce any appearance of having a conflict. The previous administrations had some issues with past negotiations and whether or not they were actually representing members' needs."
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