UAW President Shawn Fain is following the same playbook used by the Teamsters at UPS, seeking to disarm and demobilize opposition through various stunts as it prepares to impose a sellout. .
Having been forced to accept direct elections, the Solidarity House apparatus was determined to organize it in a way to prevent the participation by the overwhelming majority of rank-and-file workers. It has sought to confine the vote largely to the bureaucracy itself.