• GaveUp [she/her]
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    11 months ago

    This is pretty sad, Biden blocked the railroad strikes and now in a last ditch effort to repair his image before the elections is "backing" the UAW. How long before he stabs them in the back after re-election?

    • plinky [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Fain says stop genocide, but also vote for its enabler.

      I dont he'll stab them tbh, he is american union boy, and american unions have not been very anti us foreign policy for a while

  • Maoo [none/use name]
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    11 months ago

    Friendly reminder that trade unionism in the imperial core is in a terrible state. Unions are not inherently socialist things or even good things, they are just tools that can be wielded for local worker desires (and often don't even do that).

    When we speak of worker power and workplace organization we must understand it through a critical lens, otherwise we will end up building the structures that will be the end of us and whitewash, and even build up, imperialism.

  • davel [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Way to negotiate for even a crumb of a symbolic concession.

  • Sinistar
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    11 months ago

    This is pretty much to be expected, although it seems like now is a really weird time to endorse instead of waiting for the general.

  • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    I would like to say, there are videos of UAW members yelling at Biden about Gaza.

  • ValpoYAFF [comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    If I were the leader of the UAW, I'd endorse Biden too. The IBEW endorsed him against Bernie in the 2020 primaries to their benefit when thousands of union jobs wiring chip factories were added to BBB.

    • GaveUp [she/her]
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      11 months ago

      afaik only thing Biden did was show up to one of their pickets. This is his last possible term too. He has nothing to gain by helping the UAW any further after election

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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    11 months ago

    say Trump 'stands against everything we stand for'

    Aside from genocide apparently