UAW’s Turning Point is a Promise | Reform & Revolution

This year’s UAW contract campaign at the Big Three automakers (General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis [formerly Fiat Chrysler]) represented a historic step forward for US labor unions. It was one of the largest and most well-publicized contract campaigns in recent years, and it represented yet another step forward in the labor resurgence that’s been sweeping the country. As a major manufacturing strike in a key industry in the US, it got major press and media attention, and brought the debate about our rigged economic system into the national spotlight in a way it hasn’t been since Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaigns. The strike was also a key moment in the movement for environmental justice, and its militancy highlighted what is possible through a radical decades-long struggle for reform within labor. This article was first published in our magazine, Reform & Revolution #13. Subscribe to support our work. Under newly-elected leaders from the Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD) sla

Labor Share Share Pin It Share By Mara Rafferty The Strike at the Big Three Automakers Showed the Changes that have Happened in the UAW – and the Challenges to Come This year’s UAW contract campaign at the Big Three automakers (General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis [formerly Fiat Chrysler]) represented a historic step forward for US labor unions. It was one of the largest and most well-publicized contract campaigns in recent years, and it represented yet another step forward in the labor resurgence that’s been sweeping the country. As a major manufacturing strike in a key industry in the US, it

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