Shawn Fain, president of United Auto Workers (UAW), is going for a victory lap after leading UAW to a record-breaking deal with better wages and benefits. He’s looking to expand the movement toward nonunionized automakers—and he’s not letting CEO of Tesla and Twitter-turned-X owner Elon Musk, who is anti-union, get in the way.
During a Q&A at the UAW Solidarity House in downtown Detroit last Friday, Fain responded to questions from the Detroit News regarding Musk’s recent comments about unions at the New York Times DealBook Summit, where Musk said a Tesla unionization would be a marker of some failure on leadership’s behalf. The labor movement sweeping the nation “is a lot bigger than Elon Musk,” Fain said. But Musk is symbolic of the CEO that Fain is trying to rein in.
