Dissident Shawn Fain Elected UAW President

[313WX]

Say what you will about Shawn Fain's personality and methods [[which are petty things to nitpick), but he's accomplishing a lot more than any other UAW leader in the past 50 years to bolster the union and deserves credit for it.

[Henry Whalley]

...more than any other UAW leader in the past 50 years to bolster the union and deserves credit for it.

More than any since the assassination of Walter Reuther.

[mwilbert]

More than any since the assassination of Walter Reuther.

There can be little disagreement that he's been effective. As presumably everyone knows, the UAW has attempted to organize that plant multiple times in the past, and aside from the fact that there's a generally more pro-union vibe in the country than there has been since probably the 60s, the fact is that he's greatly increased the credibility of the UAW and made a pro-union vote much more appealing.

Of course it's one thing to win the vote, and another thing to get a contract and still another to make workers better off. But winning the vote comes first, and they've done that.