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      United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain

      Despite Some Woeful Press Coverage, Autoworkers Strike Inspires a Nation

      The contours of U.S. capitalism have fundamentally tilted the economic playing field to a perilous degree for millions of workers who are now saying enough is enough. We owe the UAW and others a great debt.

      Sylvia Allegretto
      Hayley Brown
      Sep 23, 2023

      The U.S. is in the throes of a major resurgence of union drives and strike activity, and the “hot labor summer” seems poised to become a vibrant labor autumn. With private sector union membership at just 6.0 percent in 2022, the size and scope of the strikes are still far from what they were in decades gone by when as many as one in three workers were in a union. Regardless, it has been galvanizing to see workers fighting for their rights and uniting in solidarity. Only time will tell if the historical record will note this as a watershed moment. For now, strikers are in the streets, and other workers are celebrating newly bargained contracts that delivered long overdue wage increases and better benefits for hundreds of thousands.

      The latest action took place last week when UAW members and leadership spearheaded a strategic and historic strike. The UAW strike is the first in its history to involve all three major Detroit automakers at once. Workers are looking to recoup years of lost ground in these negotiations. Unfortunately, too much of the press coverage has focused on ancillary stories with too little emphasis on the big picture and why workers are sacrificing so much to fight for change.

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      Cars on an assembly line

      Giving the Union What It's Demanding Would Be Good for Automakers

      The Big Three could unlock federal funding, avoid disruptions to their inventories, and ensure that their financial losses are spread out over several years rather than just a few months — all by simply meeting UAW’s salary demands.

      Sonali Kolhatkar
      Sep 22, 2023

      The United Auto Workers (UAW), a union of nearly 150,000 workers at America’s “Big Three” automakers, are on strike.

      On the face of it, UAW’s demands sound audacious. They’re calling for a 46 percent pay raise and a four-day workweek, among other things. But in the broader context of a decades-long decline in labor rights and wages, they’re perfectly reasonable.

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      SAG-AFTRA WGA strike

      As GOP Hopefuls Champion Union-Busting, Poll Shows Majority in US Support Striking Workers

      "For the first time in a generation the labor movement is held in high esteem by the American public. It is widely understood that working people need the protections only collective bargaining can provide."

      Jon Queally
      Sep 21, 2023

      Even as Republicans vying for the 2024 presidential nomination publicly promote their union-busting vision for the country, a new poll shows that U.S. voters across the political spectrum support Hollywood writers and actors as well as autoworkers currently on strike in demand for better pay and conditions.

      The new Reuters/Ipsos poll out Wednesday found that 58% of voters, regardless of partisan affiliation, approve of the strike by the United Auto Workers (UAW), while a full 60% support the dual strike by writers and performers underway by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA).

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