The voice of UAWD, from the frontlines of the class struggle, by and for UAW members
With high union density, workers at New York City’s numerous nonprofit movie theaters can look beyond single-employer negotiations. We can develop an ambitious sectoral strategy to wrest control over our work from bosses and billionaire donors, fundamentally changing how arts nonprofits operate. The leverage is there, but to use it to build power, workers in the sector will have to break old habits and take things into our own hands.
With ballots mailing this week for the UAW International Executive Board election, we share why the UAWD membership voted to not endorse any candidates at our meeting last week, despite running the campaign to elect Shawn Fain four years ago. We explain our assessment that Fain has been co-opted and re-entrenched the old-guard Administration Caucus, and why neither Fain nor any of his opponents have met the low and achievable bar put forward in our IEB Endorsee Program for building a militant UAW.
