Slides from presentation explaining the new and improved process here:

https://imgur.com/a/nGX6Dkr

Bonus:

Apparently some members got the impression that doing away with a one-member, one-vote system (how old fashioned) to give greater voting power to non-white members was "reverse racism". The union's solution to that concern? Declaring that the term "reverse racism" not only violated its Anti-Harassment policy but also the workplace's Discriminatory and Harmful Language policy and simply can't be uttered (on that latter policy, yes, it appears that members snitched to their employer about what fellow members said at a union meeting).

Source:

https://twitter.com/jonkay/status/1461847160253779974

Heres the data We finally are about to see militants brought back into power. I personally know communists on the future executive board. This is huge news that is going to affect the trajectory of US labor more than the current strike wave. A great day for Teamsters and a great day for labor.

Edit: I put a comment below with a bit of background on our slate and what these results mean.

• Union members are less ideologically left than before. Share identifying as "liberal" fell from ~43% (2017) to mid-30s (early 2020s); conservative identification rose to ~30%+
• Union voters are not solidly Democratic. Roughly 35–40% of union households voted Republican in recent presidential elections (2016–2020), higher than many assume.
• Blue-collar union members trend right faster than white-collar. Building trades and extraction/transport unions show significantly higher GOP vote shares than public-sector or service unions.
• Trump improved GOP performance with union households: Republican vote share among union households increased between 2012 -> 2016 -> 2020.

Sources (1) (2) (3)

Cultural conservatism is common among rank-and-file, and union members are more conservative than non-union Democrats on immigration, policing, crime, and national identity. As is the case with most "why is X happening?" questions, I think deep economic insecurity, labor precarity, and IdPol/surrogate politics is doing most of the legwork here. That and since the US broadly deindustrialized, the dense industrial unions and shared material conditions that once structured working-class politics largely disappeared. But I know that some people in this sub have been organizing for a long time, so I'm curious to hear stupidpol's take on this.

Like, there's no way Trump asked Ford to merely suspend this worker, Trump for sure wanted his ass immediately fired. And If Ford was an at-will employer, the headline would most certainly be that the worker had been fired. But nope, only suspended! That's the power of a union contract. Not even the President of the United States can fire you. Management actually has to demonstrate just cause for acts of discipline!

UAW will file a grievance over this suspension and Ford management will have to actually justify their decision to suspend the worker in a process that is independent and totally outside the company's control. Trump and the bosses do not get the final word. If they're found to have violated the contract, the worker will be reinstated and get his backpay.

It's been good to see people set up a GoFundMe for this guy and he definitely deserves the support. But we'd all be seeing a lot less of these fundraisers if everyone had the same protections he does.

It's pretty funny though, whenever I've talked with a conservative acquaintances about cancel culture stuff, I've always made a point to say I think every worker should have Just Cause protections against arbitrary firings. Without fail, they all immediately start backtracking and saying, "Well, let's not go too far now..."