In a new video, UAW President Shawn Fain explains what’s at stake in this election and outlines the UAW’s political strategy, which is designed to strengthen working-class unity to take on Donald Trump and the billionaire class, building on the victories of the 2023 Stand Up Strike.
The video is available here and the media is invited to use the footage.
“What we win or lose now,” says UAW President Shawn Fain, “will affect every single collective bargaining, every new union campaign, whether we go forward or backward for a generation. Everything is at stake.”
“Last fall, America’s autoworkers said it was time to stand up. We united the entire working class. That’s the formula for success.”
“The dream of a man like Donald Trump is to keep the vast majority of the working class divided. They divide us by race. They divide us by gender, by the people we love, or by the place we were born. That’s the game of the rich: divide and conquer.”
“There is only one answer to the threat we face as a nation. The answer is solidarity.”
The new video comes on the heels of two major campaign rallies by Harris and Walz with the UAW in Michigan, after the union endorsed Harris as a presidential candidate last week.
