Shawn Fain, president of the UAW: ‘Workers realized they’ve been getting screwed for decades’

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In Star Trek, Irish reunification and the Bell Riots both occurred in 2024. I used to think that was was a coincidence, but c’mon: you can’t have a guy with almost the same name as the Irish nationalist political party who’s also an American labor leader without him being the thing that connects the two events somehow!

  Anyway, dude’s gonna have a busy rest of the year. I wish him luck!

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  • htrayl@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Welp, civil war, escalating to nuclear war, starting 2026? See you all there.

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• minibyte@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mr Fain, I’m a UAW member with a 2.5% 401k match. I’m getting a .75 cent raise in July that puts me at $12 an hour.

  Please explain to me more about how I’m getting screwed.

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  • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m confused–do you think that $12/hour is a livable wage? It should be more like $25 - $30.

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    • minibyte@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, I do not – and I agree.

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  • Sunforged@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do you need any help organizing your co-workers to put up a fight for the next contract?

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  • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You know unions are democracies right?

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• ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fuck the UAW. They approved ending grad student strike activity at my university with only 19% approval.

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  • idiomaddict@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That sucks. Sorry, but why are the grad students represented by UAW?

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    • ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t know. I thought it was very odd myself.

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• anarchist@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He should join Sinn Fein

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