Important Takeaways:

• Career socialist activists ‘are pulling the strings’ on UAW strike that’s cost the economy $7.7bn and claimed 6,000 jobs: ‘Eat the rich’ union leader – on $350k salary – is being advised by hardcore left-wingers who ‘want class warfare’
• The United Auto Workers union president who has orchestrated massive ongoing strikes at a cost of billions to the American economy is being advised by career socialist activists whose priority is to keep the auto industry ‘wounded for months’.
• Shawn Fain, the president of the UAW, has ordered a walkout of more than 30,000 workers across America’s ‘Big 3’ automakers – Ford, General Motors and Stellantis – in an unprecedented round of industrial action that entered its 39th day on Monday.
• The strikes, which could rumble on for weeks and grow to include thousands more staff, have already cost the US economy $7.7 billion, according to analysts. Many union members, who are earning just $500-a-week strike pay, are also increasingly concerned that Fain’s war of attrition could do more harm than good.
• Fain, 54, who was narrowly elected UAW president in March and was paid around $350,000 by the union last year
• But controversy around his leadership began weeks before he was elected when he suddenly fired a team of his closest advisers – including several veterans of the union and auto industry – and surrounded himself with socialist activists.
• Leaked private messages and strategy documents written by members of Fain’s inner circle reveal their goal is to launch unprecedented strike action, ‘keep [car companies] wounded for months’, and ‘purge’ union staff who don’t agree with their radical approach.
• The mastermind behind Fain’s approach is believed to be his de-facto chief of staff, Chris Brooks, 39, who has been nicknamed ‘Fain’s brain’ for his influence over the UAW leader.
• Brooks, who often sits beside Fain at negotiations with the Big 3, is a left-wing journalist, activist and one-time member of the Bread & Roses caucus of Marxist organizers within the Democratic Socialists of America. The DSA recently drew fierce criticism for the alleged sympathy of some members towards Hamas.
• Benjamin Dictor – Lawyer and outside counsel for UAW describes himself as an ‘aspiring consigliere’ to the working class. Represented four protesters who claimed they were assaulted outside Trump Tower by security guards in 2015
• Jonah Furman – UAW communications director joined UAW, where he drafts media statements, after a stint as organizer for Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign and wrote for left-wing publication Labor Notes

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