Our Strategy

Our Strategy

Now that we have told you what we stand for (see blog post "We cannot be silent!") we feel that the next logical thing is to explain our strategy.

We feel that the biggest problem for UAW members is our low yearly income, and furthermore that the biggest obstacle to getting a fatter paycheck is the current UAW leadership. This might seem counter-intuitive, but I assure you that actually UC Management wants to give us the best paycheck they possibly can afford. We think a simple 5% pay raise isn't disagreeable. So why won't they just give it to us.

The answer is simple. Radicals have taken over the union and want to "fight" for things. That puts the bureaucrats that run the university in a stand-offish mood at best. They don't want to encourage the occupy style rhetoric and tactics that the current leadership uses, so they cannot reward this behavior by giving us all raises. If only our bargaining room were filled with respectable young men and women who saw that management and the union have overlapping interests (the welfare and administration of our university).

We stand for conciliation with President Napolitano, Chancellor Katehi, Richard Blum, Monica Lozano and others. After all, aren't they just workers too? Aren't they just trying to do their job?

This is why we will not be organizing or mobilizing against management during these contract negotiations. Instead we are simply trying to position ourselves to be in a better spot during the upcoming triennial elections next Spring, when we can take down our true enemies - other workers - because that's what solidarity really means.