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.
Shawn Fain, president of the UAW: ‘Workers realized they’ve been getting screwed for decades’
Submitted 7 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to workreform@lemmy.world
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/13/shawn-fain-president-uaw-union-interview
Comments
minibyte@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
stoly@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m confused–do you think that $12/hour is a livable wage? It should be more like $25 - $30.
minibyte@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
No, I do not – and I agree.
Sunforged@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Do you need any help organizing your co-workers to put up a fight for the next contract?
roofuskit@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You know unions are democracies right?
ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Fuck the UAW. They approved ending grad student strike activity at my university with only 19% approval.
idiomaddict@feddit.de 7 months ago
That sucks. Sorry, but why are the grad students represented by UAW?
ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I don’t know. I thought it was very odd myself.
anarchist@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
He should join Sinn Fein
grue@lemmy.world 7 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!
htrayl@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Welp, civil war, escalating to nuclear war, starting 2026? See you all there.