With the auto companies continuing to resist their demands, rank-and-file workers are denouncing the impotent selective strike policy of the UAW and calling for an industry wide strike by all 150,000 GM, Ford and Stellantis workers.
Biden told reporters in Philadelphia there would be no auto strike revealing his reliance on the UAW bureaucracy to strangle the growing rebellion of autoworkers.
Fraser, who was president of the United Auto Workers union from 1977 to 1983, oversaw the destruction of 57,000 Chrysler jobs and cuts in annual wages of the equivalent of nearly $40,000 per work in today’s terms.