On the @UAW livestream today, union president Shawn Fain dropped the mic. Just give it a listen.

Oct 6, 2023 · 6:53 PM UTC

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And it's not just talk. The United Auto Workers just won one of the most important possible concessions they could win in this fight.
More Perfect Union
@MorePerfectUS
6 Oct 2023
BREAKING: UAW president Shawn Fain announces that GM has agreed in writing to bring its electric battery plants under the national master labor contract after @UAW made clear it was planning to expand its strike to GM's most profitable factories.
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Perfection.
“The billionaires and company executives think us auto workers are just dumb. They think we don't get it. They think we only understand the power of a supervisor yelling at us or an assembly line coming at us. They look at me and they see some redneck from Indiana. They look at you and see somebody they would never have over for dinner or let ride on their yacht or fly on their private jet. They think they know us. But us auto workers know better. We may be foul mouthed, but we're strategic. We may get fired up, but we're disciplined, and we may get rowdy, but we're organized. Not everything is about pulling out the bazooka. We've been very careful about how we escalate the strike, and we have designed this strategy to increase pressure on the companies, not to hurt them for its own sake, but to move them, to get them to say yes when they want to say no. And today is a perfect example of that.”

ALT “The billionaires and company executives think us auto workers are just dumb. They think we don't get it. They think we only understand the power of a supervisor yelling at us or an assembly line coming at us. They look at me and they see some redneck from Indiana. They look at you and see somebody they would never have over for dinner or let ride on their yacht or fly on their private jet. They think they know us. But us auto workers know better. We may be foul mouthed, but we're strategic. We may get fired up, but we're disciplined, and we may get rowdy, but we're organized. Not everything is about pulling out the bazooka. We've been very careful about how we escalate the strike, and we have designed this strategy to increase pressure on the companies, not to hurt them for its own sake, but to move them, to get them to say yes when they want to say no. And today is a perfect example of that.”

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#political This union president is the only person getting paid, while others are being quietly let go and companies are moving to automate. You cannot drop of Mike, unless his entire purpose was to quicken the rate of automation and less need for the workers he is supposedly protecting. If you’re part of the @UAW, you should think long and hard. Will companies give up profit and revenue for you? Or will they build robots to do the jobs that you used to do? That is rhetorical because we all know the answer. So the longer this strike goes on, the more money, those companies move and the more incentive they have to cut workers and automate. I would’ve taken a 20% offered, and then demanded training for AI and robotics. (this is what a good union president would’ve been doing. Thinking of his workers, not just for today, but for the foreseeable future.) I stand with the workers, which is why I state the obvious. I wish you all well. •
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Anyone else notice that is no “breaking news“ chyron by the MSM reporting the UAW getting GM to agree to move its battery production into UAW plants?
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Love the tee shirt 🔥.
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Class war is so sexy.
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GM blew a golden opportunity to break the UAW.
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The USA needs more people w/ a platform to openly advocate for dissolving the wealthy thieves who prey on our society. #EatTheRich indeed! #EndOligarchs #TaxWealth #UnionStrong
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Someone make this man president.
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Replying to @MorePerfectUS @LukewSavage @UAW
I hope all the knock-off t-shirts people are hawking are made in a union shop.
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Shawn Fain in the membrain
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I want this shirt
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ALT I Couldnt Agree More John Krasinski GIF

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Here comes the bazooka:
InsideEVs
@InsideEVs
6 Oct 2023
This is the highest number of Cybertruck castings ever spotted at the Austin plant, and it suggests something big is cooking. insideevs.com/news/690310/te…
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Bro thought he was cooking 🔥🔥🔥
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Replying to @MorePerfectUS @DFLsd47 @UAW
This is why we lose elections.
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Love that Tee shirt.
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I would do literally anything for this man
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I want that cookbook
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And yet the stand-up strike is an awe-fucking-some bazooka. Buffy style 💜

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@ezdubs_bot english spanish
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Where is the mic drop?
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This dude should remove that t-shirt.
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Hungry AF
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Thank you, I'm glad you worked it out. Thank you for doing it civil. You are a man of honor. I wish other strikers would follow your example.
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This guy should be happy he's in a union and not for me. Because I would instantly seek to fire any idiot who wore a shirt like that to talk (even peripherally) about my company.
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The T shirt is the best part!!!! and the reference to the original meaning of redneck!
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You look like a complete nut job. The union needs to fire you and put an adult in to help them achieve equitable compensation
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They're just going to move the battery plants into Mexico or Canada. And that's if they don't get bankrupted first. Remember, no more bailouts!
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