UAW spokesman's messages reveal effort to keep automakers 'wounded for months'

An aide to UAW President Shawn Fain wrote: "They can basically price in an all-out (strike) ... But if we can keep them wounded for months they don't know what to do." (UAW Facebook Live)

September 22, 2023 02:12 AM

The UAW's strategy of having targeted strikes against the Detroit 3 aims to damage the companies' reputations and "keep them wounded for months," according to private messages written by a top aide to the UAW President Shawn Fain.

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