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1. Shawn Fain A big W for the UAW.

Earlier this year, onetime Indiana auto-plant electrician Shawn Fain took office as the president of the United Auto Workers after winning the unions first-ever election in which leaders were selected by a direct vote of members rather than by delegates to a convention. In September, he launched a national series of pop-up strikes against the Big Three automakersFord, General Motors, and the company that is now for some reason called Stellantis but is basically the one you remember as Chryslerwhile engaging in what, for the union, was an unusually public and rabble-rousing campaign of class warfare rhetoric. It was a bold strategy, particularly when paired with UAWs central demand for a 40 percent pay increase and the perennial reality that North American vehicle manufacturing operations can always be moved to Mexico. But it pretty much worked! As of this week, tentative agreements for 25 percent raises have been reached with the Big Three, and Toyota is raising its own U.S. wages, even though its plants arent unionized. Next up, potentially, is a fight to organize Elon Musks Tesla, which I think we can safely say would be one of the least predictable worker versus management confrontations to occur since Karl Marx and FDR invented unions in 1932. (The Surge majored in history, but not labor history.) Today, Americas ongoing revival of unapologetic leftism is spelled S-H-A-W-N.

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UAW strike ends in deals with the Big Three. Is Elon Musk next? - Slate