Unite the rank-and-file for an all-out strike!

Join the online meeting of the Autoworkers Rank-and-File Committee Network Thursday to discuss a strategy to fight the UAW bureaucracy’s betrayal. Register here to attend.

By announcing Wednesday that the UAW will only call limited “stand up strikes” at a few plants even without a contract, UAW President Shawn Fain has admitted that the UAW bureaucracy is selling out the rank and file.

Fain is not calling on workers to “stand up.” He is demanding that we lie down and accept what the companies want. The isolation of the strike to only a handful of plants will ensure that it is as ineffective as possible. By keeping production going, it will boost both corporate profits and the UAW strike fund, which the bureaucrats have raided for decades to pay their own bloated salaries.

The decision against launching an all-out strike is not legitimate. It contradicts the clear will of the rank and file, which voted 97 percent to strike all three companies now. It was taken behind the backs of the rank-and-file membership, at the behest of the corporations and the Biden administration. It was announced by a president elected through massive voter suppression with the support of only 3 percent of the rank-and-file membership. Most workers never even received a ballot to vote last year.

We cannot afford to leave things in the hands of these traitors!

The UAW bureaucracy has made clear what side it is on. This means we, the rank-and-file, must organize ourselves.

Hold emergency meetings in your factories and warehouses tonight and tomorrow to democratically discuss and plan how to countermand this betrayal and what collective action is needed. If there is no contract at midnight on Thursday night, we cannot be separated, as Fain wants. We must all stand together—on strike!