UAW President Shawn Fain deserves a lot of credit
for the success of his "Go Big Or Go Home" contract negotiation strategy, and I believe in giving credit where credit is due. He swung for the bleachers when more than a few folks were wondering if
maybe Shawn was kinda nuts asking for the things he was asking for. A
40% pay raise? Please. Get real, Shawn. Seriously.
OK, so when it was all said and done, he didn’t get a 40% raise for his union members [[his opening ask
was based on the 40% pay raise already received by automotive corporate CEOs over a three-year period); he got them
a 25% raise. Some of them even got more. When was the last time your paycheck got a 25% bump?...
Indeed, Ford was the last auto company to agree to unionization. And that was because Henry’s wife, Clara Bryant Ford. After witnessing the notorious
Battle of the Overpass, where Bennet’s goons beat strikers bloody, Clara told her husband that if he didn’t put an end to these bloody tactics,
she would leave him. This was in 1941....