https://archive.ph/2023.09.17-210927/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-09-17/uaw-strike-2023-inside-the-union-walkout-against-gm-ford-stellantis

Enter Fain, the first UAW president to be directly elected by the membership, after two of his predecessors and their underlings did prison time for spending union funds on golf clubs, luxury lodgings and steak dinners with champagne and cigars.

Months after his swearing-in this March, Fain bucked convention by not holding handshake ceremonies usually attended by the three companies’ CEOs and union leadership to kick off contract negotiations.

  • Parent [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    Anyone else read the last paragraph and think it's cringe that the great grandson of Henry Ford can still be in a high up position after four generations? Didn't Ford have to get bailed out?

    • Teekeeus
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      26 days ago

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    • duderium [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      We don’t live in a monarchy, it’s perfectly normal for eighteenth-generation failsons to control every major company in the country because the MARKET decides!

    • Chump [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Ford was actually the only us automaker to not get a bailout in ‘08. Still obviously run like a feudal monarchy tho