Here’s what launched the militant union leader toward a historic strike.
Shawn Fain was known for his unremitting opposition to concessions, a stance that has directly led to today’s walkout in which the UAW. | Matthew Hatcher/AFPSteven Greenhouse, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, is a former New York Times labor reporter and author of In 2007, Shawn Fain was a little-known union official at a Chrysler plant in Kokomo, Indiana, having gone to work there a dozen years before as an electrician.
With that defiant step, Fain declared his independence from the political group — known as the Administration Caucus — that had run the UAW for six decades. And the move also set him up for a higher position — for years in staff jobs at UAW headquarters in Detroit, then later to be catapulted into the union’s presidency.
Fain raised his hand to run for UAW president last year only after the union’s members voted to hold direct elections for top UAW leaders for the first time in the union’s history. That made it possible for a dissident like Fain to have a chance to win, because the Administration Caucus would no longer have total control over who would be chosen president.
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