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.
It seems more and more lately that organized labor is the only viable route for meaningful political change. Recasting the individualistic neoliberal interpretations of social justice in to the context of labor organizing and agitation seems like the right message to be sending right now, and not white-washing reactionary aspects of that history either but explaining how they undermined it.
The challenge in the present day is that this really requires going beyond culture war factions for greater common cause, working with people you may disagree yet have shared material interests with, with the hopes that the effort itself will absolve these barriers and lead to a better class solidarity. I don’t know if this is possible in the US right now with the rise of the fascist impulses on the right, is it possible for the left to acknowledge the structural stresses pushing people in that direction and offer a more appealing solution? The liberal strategy of dismissing those structural causes only seems to be further enabling the right. “An injury to one is an injury to all” may be too radical a notion for this context, and you can bet the bosses are happy about this working class division. I refuse to accept the workers cant find each other again. Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one.
This article makes it sound realistic. It would be several parallel strikes by unions across various industries. Leadership is always the struggle for these causes, and the plan discussed here is handling that perfectly.
Oh yeah this action specifically is totally doable, I mean the broader political context and labor as a political faction that breaks through the partisan culture war.