UAW Finding That Facts Spread By Social Media Is Achilles Heel In Contract Negotiations

What do you get when you combine short memories with social media?

Answer: the trainwreck that is the United Auto Workers ratification votes this fall. Rarely in the course of this town’s epic labor-management history have such objectively rich contracts encountered such stiff resistance.

Blame, well, who — or what? Until now, the underappreciated power of Facebook and Twitter to turbo-charge critiques and outflank union leaders long accustomed to telling members what’s good for them and expecting enough of them vote accordingly? Partly.

W208 - 11/20/2015 11:10:09 AM

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Okay, I consider myself a pretty intelligent guy, but WTF did I just read?

All the guy had to say was that social media has created a more informed worker in negotiations, and that executive pay has been routinely cited via facebook, twitter, etc., as a point of contention in negotiations.