It's been a struggle to fight off the business union shitters scattered around union leadership. In ours, we had some rather nasty intra-union conflict in the recent strike we did. I'm glad we got Shawn Fain elected though. There was a pretty big institutional push against him where I'm at, but we managed to organize past it.
Another goal should be to increase the number of unions throughout the economy (not just auto industry). Including white collar brothers and sisters.
It is! UAW specifically has been involved in graduate student unionization drive
That could be read as somewhat cynically including members who won't stay members long enough to rise into any leadership positions.
It's been a struggle to fight off the business union shitters scattered around union leadership. In ours, we had some rather nasty intra-union conflict in the recent strike we did. I'm glad we got Shawn Fain elected though. There was a pretty big institutional push against him where I'm at, but we managed to organize past it.