• Judy Wraight

    UAW Local 600, Retired

    Judy Wraight has been a UAW member since 1978 working on the assembly line and in skilled trades at the Ford Rouge Plant, She retired in 2012. Since 1978, she has organized with meetings and leaflets including VOTE NO leaflets on the sell-out UAW contracts and what's wrong with American society and wars.  She was elected to the Assembly Plant and Tool and Die executive boards. In Local 600 membership meetings, she's organized for more transparency, fought back, and organized our members.
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    Standing Down: Reflections on Shawn Fain’s Presidency

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    UAWD Steering Committee members present a deep dive into Shawn Fain’s presidency, through the lens of the pressures to deliver on the Stand Up Strike and the co-optive trap of bureaucracy. Fain has turned away from class struggle unionism, failing to follow through on his refreshing shift toward militant rhetoric and his influential push to reinvigorate the idea of a mass general strike. UAW members should understand Fain as the more progressive face of the old-guard Administration Caucus. Though he was elected to put an end to their stranglehold, Fain has instead re-entrenched his former antagonists and been realigned as their new leader.