bro out there setting up 5 year plans π
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I support future chairman of the Indiana Soviet 
The flag of Arizona already looks like some sort of communist liberation army flag
Could be a good naval flag. The star over the water.
*Mao noises intensifies*
Protect this man
He needs a body double. Or repeated exposure to the Havana Syndrome gun to build resistance.
Also preemptive baboon heart transplant to nullify the CIA heart attack gun.
We're about oh,
5 years off from the news media just being like ARE THE RUMORS TRUE? DID SHAWN FAIN REND A BABY IN TWAIN?
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If I had kids I'd name them Shawn Fain Jr.
edit: all of them.
Why 2028?
The UAW just finished negotiating a new contract with the "Big 3" auto manufacturers: Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis (fka Fiat Chrysler). The contract includes things such as a 25% wage increase for all UAW workers, return of Cost of Living Adjustment, removal of some of the wage tier systems, higher wages for temporary and new workers, bonuses to 401k and pension plans, and the right to strike over plant closures.
The new contract is going to expire on April 30, 2028. Shawn Fain is asking for other unions to prepare for a strike at the same time so that all unions involved will have greater collective bargaining power.
In the longer video Shawn Fain says:
We demanded a longer contract because one of our biggest goals coming out of this historic contract victory is to organize like we've never organized before. When we return to the bargaining table in 2028, it won't just be with the "Big 3" but instead with the "Big 5" or "Big 6".
I believe Shawn Fain is alluding that the UAW is attempting to unionize other car manufacturer companies in the next 5 years.
UAW posted key points of the speech in this twitter thread:
https://nitter.net/UAW/status/1718800729266082186
Are we talkin a general strike on May Day baby
Ah, dogwhistling
holy shit you're right they SPECIFICALLY set the contract to end April 30th 
based
Holy based
Agreeing to a contract and then immediately scheduling a strike the day after the contract ends is such a chad fucking move, I love it.
litcherally basado
Time to get it organized
This could be huge.
If you see an increasing number of "As a leftist, fuck socialism" psyops in the coming years, just remember it's because they're scared.
If you aren't for socialism, you aren't a leftist.
Literally the bare minimum tbh
now this is how you do a general strike, not just posting about it on twitter
I'd argue posting it out there for years made the idea more palatable for people
I think the posting about it was a reflection of people becoming more open to the idea from other sources. The actual people talking about a general strike on Twitter are a pretty marginal group that only terminally online politics weirdos like us even know about.
Take your time bro, no rush
Well, the past decade has been full of Twitter leftists "declaring" an imminent general strike with predictably zero results. So if this actually materializes, it will be a great accomplishment despite taking four and a half years.
I canβt help it, but any time I hear the name βShawn Fainβ I just think
???
When do we get a Shawn Fain emoji
Kinda gives a game away a little bit (?)
Big strikes have no need to be secret
This is the point. He's telling the auto industry "look at how we won and how much it cost you. We're gonna win again next time too. Up to you how much it'll cost you next time."
Nothing wrong with this strategy. Strikes are the last resort. It's better to avoid a strike in the first place, and you can avoid the strike of the company is already aware of and afraid of your worker power.
Fain and the UAW has very clearly demonstrated their worker power this year. He's signalling that he'll do it again next time and giving the auto makers a way out.
2028 also means pressure on the next presidential campaigns, which they've shown that they care about. Every possible candidate will be weaker in the next election cycle compared to our current race, which is the incumbent versus a person half the republican party thinks is literally the incumbent.
Turns out βno security through obscurityβ applies to job security too
Prophet Fain has come with a message from the godhead.
Seriously though, this should get top billing at every org meeting in the Anglosphere. Day of Rage, Day of Revolt.
checks notes 2028
Another goal should be to increase the number of unions throughout the economy (not just auto industry). Including white collar brothers and sisters.
It is! UAW specifically has been involved in graduate student unionization drive
That could be read as somewhat cynically including members who won't stay members long enough to rise into any leadership positions.
It's been a struggle to fight off the business union shitters scattered around union leadership. In ours, we had some rather nasty intra-union conflict in the recent strike we did. I'm glad we got Shawn Fain elected though. There was a pretty big institutional push against him where I'm at, but we managed to organize past it.
:fry:
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: