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In a dramatic reversal shortly before the close of the UAW’s 38th constitutional convention in Detroit, delegates voted to undo a $100-per-week strike pay increase approved earlier during the same meeting. 

Because the reversal of the strike pay increase came late on the last day of the four-day convention, numerous delegates had already left. Some took to social media to express their frustration with the late reversal.

The drama, shortly before the convention adjourned, hours later than expected, appeared to highlight the extreme divisions at work in the union, with delegates who supported the change less than a day earlier seeing what they thought was a win disappear.

Daniel Vicente, a delegate from Pennsylvania, made his frustration clear after the convention adjourned. He called it outrageous that a vote on strike pay would be reversed one day after it was taken. “I have no respect for anyone who sits on the International Executive Board after today. I’m disgusted with the whole thing,” Vicente said, noting that he loves being in the UAW, but he believes the union is sick and that that needs to be addressed.