UAW members changed America in the 20th century and can/will do so in this century. Sam Pizzigati @ Common Dreams shares that opinion in UAW Strike Gives Us Hope For The Working Class…
UAW president Shawn Fain seems to understand — just like his UAW predecessors back in the middle of the 20th century — that any real economic justice for auto workers is always going to demand imaginative struggle on multiple fronts. Striking UAW workers in 1937 didn’t just walk the picket line. They staged sit-down strikes that captured the imagination of working people the nation over.
In other words, the rich don’t always have to get richer — at everyone else’s expense. The distribution of U.S. income and wealth can change, over relatively brief stretches of time and to a consequential extent.
The last time that consequential change took place in the United States, the UAW played a consequential role. That role may now be re-emerging.
(graphic courtesy of UAW)
