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By announcing Thursday that the UAW will only call limited “stand up strikes” at a few plants even without a contract, UAW President Shawn Fain has admitted that the UAW bureaucracy is selling out the rank-and-file.
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Fain is not calling on workers to “stand up.” He is demanding that we lie down and accept what the companies want. The isolation of the strike to only a handful of plants will ensure that it is as ineffective as possible.
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By keeping production going, it will boost both corporate profits and the UAW strike fund, which the bureaucrats have raided for decades to pay their own bloated salaries.
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The decision against launching an all-out strike is not legitimate. It contradicts the clear will of the rank-and-file, which voted 97 percent to strike all three companies now.
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It was taken behind the backs of the rank-and-file membership, at the behest of the corporations and the Biden administration. It was announced by a president elected through massive voter suppression with the support of only three percent of the rank-and-file membership.
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Most workers never even received a ballot to vote last year.
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We cannot afford to leave things in the hands of these traitors!
The UAW bureaucracy has made clear what side it is on. This means we, the rank-and-file, must organize ourselves.
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The UAW bureaucracy has made clear what side it is on. This means we, the rank-and-file, must organize ourselves.
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Hold emergency meetings in your factories and warehouses tonight and tomorrow to democratically discuss and plan how to countermand this betrayal and what collective action is needed.
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If there is no contract at midnight on Thursday night, we cannot be separated, as Fain wants, we must all stand together–on strike!
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