In preparation for the presidential visit Thursday, UAW Region 1 headquarters in Warren, Michigan was transformed into a virtual bunker. The building was encircled by heavy-duty municipal dump trucks filled with road salt to protect the president from attack. Secret Service agents, Michigan state police and local cops from Warren and nearby Centerline blocked all streets leading to the UAW hall and kept protesters hundreds of feet away.

New Settlers chapter just dropped.

  • SUPAVILLAIN
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    5 months ago

    Remember how liberals wanted to keep talking about how the leadership had ‘graciously accepted’ Biden’s offerings, and that what he did to the rail strikers DIDN’T make Biden a strike-breaking rat specifically for that fact and I kept saying ‘fuck those state stoolies lemme hear it from the rank-and-file instead’? And now Fain’s got rank-and-file out there counter-protesting him? I’m starting to feel hella vindicated about that stance.

    • ziggurter [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      5 months ago

      Absolutely. I was 100% there with you the whole time.

      The only time we HAD heard from the rank-and-file is when they had voted to reject the earlier deals and go on strike. That’s the mandate you have to go with until proven otherwise.