After the high-stakes contract fight between the Teamsters and UPS, the eyes of labor are now on the contract negotiations currently taking place between the United Auto Workers and the Big Three automakers: Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis (formerly Chrysler). The UAW’s master agreement with the Big Three covers around 150,000 autoworkers, and the current contract expires on September 14. If a tentative agreement is not reached by then, the auto industry could be the next to be rocked by a major strike, and UAW president Shawn Fain has stated clearly that the union is prepared to strike at all three automakers if necessary. What brought us to this point, and what’s at stake in this contract fight (for autoworkers, for the UAW, and for the labor movement writ large)? What are workers demanding, and what role do we all have to play in ensuring they get the contract they deserve? In this panel discussion, we talk with three rank-and-file workers and UAW members from each of the Big Three automakers: Marcelina Pedraza, a Ford electrician in Chicago and member of UAW Local 551; Torice Sawyer, a Stellantis plant worker at the Detroit Assembly Complex–Jefferson and member of UAW Local 7; Nicholas Livick, a General Motors autoworker and rank-and-file member of UAW Local 31 in Kansas City.
Music / Post-Production: Jules Taylor
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Greedy Republican Supporting CEO's brought us here! UNION PROUD, UNION STRONG ✊💪!
I cannot believe that people still don't know that Covid was killing people who were mostly older than the average life expectancy …we were all useful idiots for the largest transfer of wealth in all of human history and working people, like these folks, are still out here talking about how dangerous Covid was when reality completely contradicts that non-argument…you are working for free on behalf of the wealth hoarders when you are still willingly talking about "how dangerous Covid was"…please stop it…
I wish people would stop using acronyms that non-industry people have no idea wtf these folks are talking about…
max & shawn are scabs. The workers need to stop playing follow the leader & organize independently of union officers that sell out members almost without exception. tudu is completely co-opted by sob.
There is no reason why bluecollar wages and labor should fund corporate greed. These ceo's yearly salaries are over 280 times the average employee. Ceo's are nothing more then glorified managers. They do not work any harder then their employees. You cannot deny corporate greed is out of hand in america. These people have spent decades bribing politicians and law makers to benefit them and stiff blue collar americans.
For the 94% of American private sector workers not in a union, the costs are starting to stack up – from increasing consumer costs — now for new cars — to sudden loss in business for those in related industries like auto suppliers, restaurants and caterers whose customers are now on strike."
The president remains on a very fine line here.
At our plant, they removed all the rubber mats we used to walk on, which caused foot and leg pain 🤦🏿♀️
00:50:39 If you take anything away from this panel, this should be it.
Thank you for this podcast. I understand the strike so much better now. I stand with them in solidarity. If not now, then when?
Where is your face.
While corporations are in control of the news and all media in America they will never get called out for their greed. They will continue to call the narrative. That's why we need massive strikes all across the world we need to Unite nit are Americans but as working people world wide we need to support each other we also need to realize what happens to workers in other country's dose affect us here at home.
AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE BEING ROBBED BY ALL THESE CORPORATIONS EVEN THE GIG WORKER PLATFORMS
We need to move beyond this fair wage fallacy capitalism by its systemic nature can never provide a fair wage. Bourgeois ownership predicates the theft of surplus value from the labor force of the workers. Until we eat the rich there is no fair wage. Capitalism is at its foundation exploitation. The only solution is socialism the only path to socialism is revolution. These reform unions will never succeed, though we should stand in solidarity with the workers, we must prepare to explain why such a capitalist labor union can not succeed. Only revolutionary industrial labor unions can genuinely threaten capitalism, or trade unions lead by a communist party. Marx and Lenin explained these dynamics one hundred and one hundred fifty years ago. Look at Eugene Debs and the Wobblies, we’re reliving history and we know how history works, once as tragedy, then as farce. So let’s nip the joke in the bud and study revolutionary proletarian history.
wait. are there still auto workers in the US?
Solidarity with the workers ✊🏼
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Not worth it don't kill your body, soul and mind on these shi auto factory jobs period.
I will strike with them if they do.
Calling out the Looting Pillaging Sacking and Raping of America
TESLA
News where ** gets real when Corporate America swerves the average working class person
By the looks of some of those UAW bellies, walking that picket line would do them some good. UAW, unions against work.