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The recent tour of the US by officials of the CSP-Conlutas union federation served to integrate it into support for the emerging US war against Russia and China.
Despite backing from the Biden administration and favorable media publicity, the UAW unionization campaign was turned back by the first serious management resistance it encountered.
The powerful movement for a political strike is already confronting both the intransigence of the university authorities and the UAW bureaucracy.
The UAW unionization drive has received the blessings of the Biden administration, which is seeking to use the unions to control and stifle social opposition to war and austerity.
Mancilla, a former official from the Harvard grad student union, is attempting to get out in front of the anti-war sentiment. He played a leading role in passing a UAW ceasefire resolution in December. But that remained a dead letter, and the UAW endorsed Biden only weeks later, with Mancilla in attendance.