Who’s up for a little class warfare?

The UAW won’t be fighting its next battle alone, either. One of the most interesting aspects of the new UAW tentative agreements at Ford, GM, and Stellantis is that they are all timed to expire on April 30, 2028. If those contracts expire without reaching a satisfactory new deal, the UAW will be ready to strike on May Day, otherwise known as International Workers Day.

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What’s more, the UAW hopes it won’t be hitting the picket lines alone. Fain has called on other unions to time their contracts to expire during the same period and “flex [their] collective muscles.” No, you’re not imagining things — the head of a major US labor union is calling on the rest of the movement to come together and start planning a general strike.

  • peopleproblems@lemmy.world
    441·
    11 months ago

    "There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part! You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels … upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop! And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!

    -Mario Savio, In a speech during a protest with his university at the time, but the words always seem appropriate to these situations.

    In this case I attach free to “free to live without fear that losing your job means losing your life.”

  • IonAddis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    381·
    11 months ago

    That’s a really well-written article, the complete opposite of a fluff piece.

    I encourage folks to go read it.

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
    371·
    11 months ago

    Unlike Vogue, Teen Vogue has been pretty political ever since one of their writers (Lauren Duca, who is pretty cool) argued with Tucker Carlson on his show in 2016.

    It is, surprisingly, one of the better publications to get news and commentary from nowadays, because nobody really expect it.

    • RedAggroBest@lemmy.world
      6·
      11 months ago

      I laugh every time I see teenvogue.com under a headline link because it’s not where I’d expect quality but I know it will be. I take it as a sign teens are becoming more politically active, which is the only way progressives win. It makes me just a tiny bit hopeful.

  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
    10·
    11 months ago

    I hope Mr. Fain keeps good security around him. His actions are challenging the current order and threatening both the billionaire and political classes. There is no doubt in his mind that there are members of those classes working out how to make him disappear from the public stage, one way or another. He would not be the first labor leader in this nation to come to a violent end at the hands of corporate or political leaders.

  • jandar_fett@lemmy.world
    7·
    11 months ago

    After reading the article I not only signed up for Teen Vogue’s political newsletter, I signed up for the United Autoworkers Union newsletter too and I’m not even part of a Union!

  • Radium@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    If you enjoyed the article check out a book by the same author. Fight like hell, the untold history of American labor

    • paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      11 months ago

      $20 on the IWW’s website

      A revelatory and inclusive history of the American labor movement, from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly.

      There’s more info in the description at the link for those interested. I might pick this up at my library to give a read.