Author: Toly Rinberg

Anti-capitalism
The UAW Needs a Strategy for the Future of Manufacturing
The corporate reversal on electric vehicle production is restructuring the US auto
industry and creating worker insecurity faster than the UAW can fight back. The long-standing
culture of collaboration between the union and corporations has been devastating to labor’s
power. Will the UAW reverse its decline by stepping up to fight over the future of manufacturing,
or continue to take a back seat to capital? Labor needs new strategies that take on
corporations on a class basis, focus fights on worker control alongside bread-and-butter issues,
and set a course for collectively controlled manufacturing that serves the working class.
Toly Rinberg
October 20, 2026