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A key conflict in the United Auto Workers strike [which began on September 14] is over the electric vehicle industry. The vast majority of EV plants are low-wage and nonunion despite being publicly subsidized — and the UAW is trying to fix that.

John Weyer remembers the day that he threw out his United Auto Workers (UAW) shirts. He started as a member of Local 1264 in 1995, taking a production job

The talks are not negotiations between two antagonistic parties but a conspiracy to force workers to bear the full cost of the conversion to electric vehicle production.

All of the actions of the UAW bureaucracy throughout the strike fly in the face of the pious and hypocritical claims of Fain and Co. to be instituting a new era of “transparency” and “democracy” in the union.

The tightly scripted, 25-minute event was aimed at projecting an air of “transparency” and militancy on the part of the UAW’s new top leadership, while they in fact prepare to carry out the same policies as their predecessors: brutal attacks on jobs, wages and working conditions at the behest of the auto companies.

The attempt to manufacture “left” credentials for the new UAW administration is taking place at the same time as DSA members are being placed in the upper echelons of the UAW bureaucracy.

DETROIT—The Auto Workers’ bargaining convention in Detroit last month opened in uncertainty –who would lead it–and ended in setting tough priorities for upcoming talks with the Detroit 3.

In the first-ever elections where members voted directly for the top leadership, UAW reformers on the Members United slate just won every race they entered.

Detroit The Special Bargaining Convention of the United Auto Workers met March 27-29 in Detroit. These conventions are held quadrennially, typically in the same year that the union’s contracts with Ford, General Motors and Stellantis (formerly Chrysler) expire. Delegates from every UAW local discuss and vote on an “omnibus” resolution…

The DSA is working to provide a counterfeit “left” cover for the nationalist, pro-capitalist perspective which the UAW bureaucracy bases itself on.