Fain announces Friday "deadline" for more walkouts as rank-and-file opposition mounts to UAW's disastrous strike policy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

82% : "In ordering workers in the non-striking factories to continue working under expired contracts, the UAW has opened them up to punitive measures, with workers being suspended and threatened with termination based on petty charges.
68% : Expressing the anger of workers to this betrayal, a member of the Warren Truck Rank-and-File Committee told the WSWS, "An all-out strike is the only way for the auto companies to know that we're not playing.
62% : In reality, the discussions between management, the UAW and the White House are centered on how to stave off a complete rebellion by workers.
62% : The company is using petty things to fire workers because they're in control.
61% : Last week, it issued a letter to workers ordering them to follow management's instructions and warning that refusing forced overtime, slowing production or taking any other solidarity actions with striking workers could lead to termination.
59% : The automakers are planning for massive job cuts as part of their transition to electric vehicles, plans which the UAW bureaucracy continues to conceal from workers.
58% : The possibility that workers at Ford Motor Company in Canada will also walk out early Tuesday morning and extend the struggle across the border is adding to sentiment among autoworkers across North America for expanding the fight.
58% : In either case, this would entail paying workers lower wages.
55% : The "stand up" strike policy is part of this effort, aimed at dividing workers, wearing them down and softening them up for a sellout contract that will be used to slash tens if not hundreds of thousands of auto industry jobs.
53% : Last Friday, workers at the Stellantis Warren Truck Assembly Plant reported that 10 of their fellow workers were "walked out" of the suburban Detroit plant for using earbuds, not wearing safety glasses or other minor infractions.
52% : Even though workers voted by 97 percent to strike, the UAW has only called out only 12,000 of its 146,000 members at GM, Ford and Stellantis, while ordering 90 percent of Big Three workers to remain on the job.
50% : Fain and the UAW are seeking to placate workers in the US as long as possible with promises of expanding the struggle, while it prepares to spring a contract on them which will betray all of their demands.

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