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https://archive.ph/2023.09.17-210927/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-09-17/uaw-strike-2023-inside-the-union-walkout-against-gm-ford-stellantis

Enter Fain, the first UAW president to be directly elected by the membership, after two of his predecessors and their underlings did prison time for spending union funds on golf clubs, luxury lodgings and steak dinners with champagne and cigars.

Months after his swearing-in this March, Fain bucked convention by not holding handshake ceremonies usually attended by the three companies’ CEOs and union leadership to kick off contract negotiations.

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[-] Parent@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

Anyone else read the last paragraph and think it's cringe that the great grandson of Henry Ford can still be in a high up position after four generations? Didn't Ford have to get bailed out?

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

I think it's funny that American car companies are still in business

[-] duderium@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

We don’t live in a monarchy, it’s perfectly normal for eighteenth-generation failsons to control every major company in the country because the MARKET decides!

[-] Chump@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Ford was actually the only us automaker to not get a bailout in ‘08. Still obviously run like a feudal monarchy tho

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