As United Auto Workers' (UAW) negotiations with the Big Three — GM, Stellantis, and Ford — roll on, union members at Mack Trucks made a bold move to reject a tentative deal with company management.
Payne is a creature of the same bureaucratic layer as the disgraced and defrocked Jerry Dias. For Payne, like her predecessor as Unifor president, the suppression of workers’ struggles to safeguard the profitability of the employers is “job number one.”