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Big Three Autoworkers Striking Against Concessions While Shareholders Reap Bonanza
https://jacobin.com/2023/09/united-auto-workers-uaw-strike-big-three-automakers-stock-buyback-shareholders/

* 2023-09-15 UAW launched landmark strike vs. Big Three automakers for inadequate pay, job security
* m/w automakers auth. $5 billion stock buybacks

U.S. auto strike expected to affect Canada in deeply integrated industry
https://www.ctvnews.ca/autos/u-s-auto-strike-expected-to-affect-canada-in-deeply-integrated-industry-1.6563010

#UAW #TradeUnions #capitalism #corporations #CorporateGreed #DefundCorporations #DefundBillionaires #ShawnFein 

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UAW Members Are Striking Against Corporate Power. Americans Overwhelmingly Back Them
https://jacobin.com/2023/09/uaw-members-strike-corporate-power-union-public-opinion-backing-autoworkers

* United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain said “We fight for the good of the entire working class”
* Americans believe him. In massive numbers, they tell pollsters they back UAW over Big Three auto companies

#UAW #TradeUnions #capitalism #corporations #CorporateGreed #DefundCorporations #DefundBillionaires #ShawnFein 

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UAW President Shawn Fain: “It Is Long Past Time to Stand Up for the Working Class”
https://jacobin.com/2023/09/shawn-fain-speech-uaw-stand-up-strike-working-class-unions-uaw/

* speech to United Auto Workers members, Shawn Fain laid into the Big Three
* explained the UAW's new “stand-up strike"

* [Oy! 🤨 ] invoked Bible to declare their battle a righteous fight for justice 🤦‍♀️

#UAW #TradeUnions #capitalism #corporations #CorporateGreed #DefundCorporations #DefundBillionaires #ShawnFein #populism 

 @c17393bb Quote: Autoworkers are not the problem. Corporate greed is the problem. I’ll add, “Capitalism is the problem; CEO made $17M last year”. Case closed…⚡️🤔 

 @f0f121ac @c17393bb 
Presuming a 40-hour week, that's over $8100/hr. Feels like a lot to me... 

 @6c1c08a4 @f0f121ac 

Elon Musk, $269.3 billion USD net worth 2023-09-11
* If Musk spent $1 million/day would take 736.5 CENTURIES to deplete wealth
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/111049297750914546

#capitalism #DefundCorporations #DefundBillionaires 

 @6c1c08a4 @f0f121ac @c17393bb 

“Price is what you pay, value is what you get.”

The question for boards and shareholders is: did they get a lot *more* than $8,100/hr of value for that wage.