Dear Sharra, This week, the United Auto Workers won tentative agreements with the Big Three automakers – Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis. Assuming that the membership ratifies these incredible contracts, this ends their historic Stand Up Strike with resounding success not just for UAW autoworkers but for all working people.
From the reopening of closed plants to the right to strike over future plant closures, from impressive wage hikes to cost-of-living adjustments, autoworkers won a record-breaking contract, with the gains in these tentative agreements eclipsing those in every Big Three contract since the turn of the century, combined.
This is not just about workers at the Big Three. This is about workers everywhere. Nonunion Toyota is already raising wages for their employees out of fear of union organizing, and other automakers are expected to do the same. With a successful contract, the UAW is well positioned to organize these nonunion automakers like Tesla, Toyota, and Hyundai.
The UAW set their contracts to all expire the day before May Day – International Worker's Day – in 2028, and they have invited all other unions to do the same. This means that we could see a massive strike wave like we haven't seen in the modern history of this country.
The UAW should be applauded for taking a major step in reversing the 40-year-long decline of unions in this country. Labor organizing like we're seeing at the UAW has the potential to transform our economy from one that works for the corporations into one that works for all of us, but labor cannot do it alone. We need government action. Throughout my lifetime, labor law has become more and more pro-business and anti-union.
As President, a core priority for me will be to pass the PRO Act, establish a National Worker Resource Center, strengthen the National Labor Relations Board, and pass many more measures to reverse the assault on American workers. |
This issue is personal to me. My father was a labor organizer with the CIO and participated in the UAW's campaign to organize Ford Plants in 1937, where men and women were brutally assaulted for trying to form a union. My grandfather worked on the Rock Island Railroad, taking my father to hear Eugene Debs speak when my dad was just a child. When I was growing up, my parents told me "if you cross a picket line, don't bother coming home." My brother worked for Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers and the imprint of support for Labor has stayed with us throughout our adult lives.
Please give what you can so that we can help workers in this country build an economy that works for them. A fair economy is not just important to the working people of the United States; it is a bulwark of a just and democratic society.
For many Americans, living in America has become too expensive. With 62 per cent of our citizens living paycheck to paycheck, a more economically just workplace is essential to our societal repair. |
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