The newly elected president of the U.S. United Auto Workers (UAW) is unnerving Korean battery manufacturers by urging their joint ventures with U.S. carmakers to raise wages and guarantee job safety, according to industry officials, Tuesday. Amid growing concerns over his request having a negative impact on their earnings, battery makers have maintained a cautious stance, considering the fact that the union has gained strong support from U.S. President Joe Biden.
The outbreak of the campus strikes in New Jersey and Illinois threatens to break through the isolation imposed by the AFT bureaucracy and its local enforcers on the strike by U-M grad student instructors. This makes all the more sinister the promotion by the GEO leadership at U-M, dominated by the DSA, of the phony “reform” wing of the United Auto Workers bureaucracy headed by newly installed UAW president Shawn Fain.
Convention delegates overwhelmingly rejected or prevented votes on resolutions calling for cost-of-living increases, opposition to tiers in electric vehicle plants and the rights of academic workers.