No time to mince words, no time to use euphemisms. Just telling corporations exactly how it's gonna be and sticking to that fight. About god damn time and I'm proud to finally see someone like him in the reigns. Glad to see workers have gotten enough of being left behind and are pushing for some serious change. Here's to hopefully many more years of union growth!

I am extremely grateful to this man! I recently retired and walked away angry with what is going on! Longer hours and less people to do the jobs that used to take 3/4 people! I was NEVER a lazy person but there comes a time to say ENOUGH! Stay strong and support UNIONS! It is our only hope! 🙏❤️🇺🇸

This man is gonna help change our union and show the world what a UAW autoworker gets vs non union workers!

Happy to see Mr. Fain of the UAW and Mr. O’Brien of the Teamsters come out fighting for their unions and workers across the board. Hope that union power comes back strong and making big business and corporations ready to sweat.

One union for the world, together we are strong!

As a former postal worker, I sincerely hope the APWU abandons the political marriage bed and starts working for its members again. Union leaders should side with workers, not politicians.

Congrats Shawn, so glad I could vote for you! #UAW

I worked for a telecommunications company and was a union member. I'm retired now but I've got it made because of the union.😁. I hope more union get formed to fight the power brokers who are getting fat off peoples labor ungratefully.

The UAW is BACK! Absolutely love this guy. He is calm on the surface but you can tell he is a fighter. Like he said, get ready. No more tiered workforce, no more concessions. It's go time.

We need to be as strong as the French workers are! We need to look at whats happening there and stand in solidarity with the people of France and learn how to stop the wheels of capitalism in its tracks when the situation requires it. The world doesn't spin when people with grease under their fingernails tell the people with dirt on their hands they've had enough. Workers in the US have a lot to learn about standing together against corporate greed and government corruption, but it can still be done.

What every union needs.

My father was negotiator for Teamsters Union back in the 1960s and 1970s!

Oh man, this guy got some heavy words. Respect.

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them." -Frederick Douglass "A hundred years ago, poverty had to be endured. Today, it is imposed." This system isn't broken. This system is working exactly as it was designed to.

GO UNIONS!!!!!!

Well done! 👍👍👍👏👏👏 GO UNIONS!!!!!! 💪💪💪

That's an important move, to secure work with the new tasks they are like moving goalposts...to a whole other field and starting the game clock and scoreboard fresh, not acceptable.They are dodging legal rights to bargain those new job tasks. Much success UAW brother and sisters.

Niiiice. I like this guy 👍

I'm UAW, and I'm happy to see someone new. I just hope he's not corrupt and will actually do what he says he will do.

I have no clue on anything in the auto industry, but kudos to this guy he seems like a peoples' man

👏👏👏 Congratulations 😊

Only Unity and Solidarity make us Strong💪❤!

If a big victory like this can come up in america, big, similar things hopefully happens in other countries around the world, because a new standard has been set, if I made any sense with that sentence

Congratulations, Shawn Fain!

My Grandfather was a UAW for many years, as well with some Uncles etc, Majority if not almost all of my Family is Blue collar working class, and i'm proud to say i am too. If not for us, that's exactly it, These corperate companies would not be where they are today without us.

"We need to be realistic about our contract expectations, we only have 6 months to prepare" - Shawn Faine.

Excellent interview President Fain! We are so excited and ready for change!!!

This is good to see.

Thank you, Faiz! A fkn 84-hour wk?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let's destroy the (not) new bourgeoisie overlords.

Politicians need to put up or shut up instead of just relying on people to just making empty campaign promises and not following through once they’re in office.

Good man. Fight like hell

Let’s go!

In solidarity with all Workers ❤

I'm proud to have him as our president. Go Shawn! Go UAW!

I'm so excited about Shawn and the UAW! It's time for workers to stand up and demand their fair share and appreciation for what they/we do for our fellow humans!

Solidarity!

As a member I feel like I voted for the right guy.

UAW Proud and STRONG!!

“Mr Fain is helping me find my gun”

If UAW really thinks "global" it will not exist. The fact is US manufacturing is just not competitive.

Solidarity. ShakeUp

Wow, I had no idea they were subverting the union with EV development.

He’s going to kill off the remaining auto industry in the US

But for the workers, there would be no businesses!

👍 great news right here!! From Australia

Oh hell yeah!

Unions should speak through the workers, no? Unionism should a fight against leaderism.

Yep❗

#UAW is on the rise!

We need a union for every profession.

It's UNACCEPTABLE that "The first democratically elected UAW President" got elected in 2023!! DISGUSTING 😤😤 HOPE SHAWN CAN DELIVER!! 🎉🎉❤❤

Foreigner here, why has there been no democratically elect president of UAW before?

Unfortunately big corporations in the past just leave for cheap labor countries, and/or pass the cost to consumers. I do agree completely that the work isn't worth the cost to the worker anymore. Government overreach and greed is part of the problem too, humans are greedy and cut throat you cant change a culture by force so vote with your dollar that is the best way to change anything in a materialistic world.

How about this Sir Tom: first congrats, now build your own bank, hospital, medical clinics, don't steal the pension monies, invest in buying your own companies! UAW needs to re industrialize the USA!

Yes. "THINK GLOBAL." Transnational unions.

People that Fight for others😁

Corporations have no obligations to anything but shareholders. Until we're willing to commit some crimes that is.😂

❤️🇺🇸❤️

I support worker rights and unions. Fair and honest pay, compensation for time worked, and all forms of protections

5:26. It's almost like workers of the world should unite....

Hopefully this guy is not all talk Norwood Jewel and General Holy field sold our company down the river thanks UAW so glad my union dues were used for lavish party's and spending money for all you fine folks in the senior union leadership

Time for everyone's interests to be at the table otherwise we will continue to have poverty throughout the world.

That’s the game, they come across as pro-union while securing the employer and appealing to the workers, then sell you out on the backend while taking your dues the UAW is now a sad joke

Can't say I'm surprised that a reformer won a democratic election after the old guard refused. It's almost like they care more about their power than what the workers want. If only my union could win the right for democracy above the state level.

Organize to control the conditions of your labor!

Unions have lost credibility with these crazy labor-concession contracts; new hires are paying the same dues for half the benefits, while helping to fund the gold-plated packages of a bunch of grandfathered-in loafers.

Alright I like this guy and I agree, let's all organize to battle the corporations to revive the American Dream and the American middle class!

Too bad it's too late for the Caterpillar contract. Sold out again.

i was in the uaw get em bro

Pray for dead fight, like hell for the living

They were not elected before?

Make us proud Shawn! Do right by us, and we will stand behind you 100% of the way

Seems like a very decent level headed guy with a can do attitude. Something thats missing in america.

UAW international union or a local??

Yes because UAW is horrible, my parents worked for GM, one for 45 years one for 35. Their union contracts are trash and nothing more.

The photo for this video is very misleading. Shawn Fain had nothing to do with the 2021 John Deere master agreement. The only current IEB member to be involved with that set of talks is VP Chuck Browning.

I’ll start believing in unions again if he does what he says he’s going to do

It's great for UAW workers but what about the other workers above and below them in the supply chain? UAW cares no more for people than the car companies do. Unions increase production costs and companies price gouge and it all gets passed along to the end consumer making everything more expensive. It is getting to the point that only union workers and corporate executives will be able to afford the cars they build. The unions and the corporations are a pot and a kettle. They are both power hungry, greedy monoliths that are just worried about filling their own pockets and crushing competition. If you don't like where you work, go work somewhere else. If you don't take care of employees, you will lose workers. The automotive field is the worst! Compare US built vehicles to those built everywhere else. American vehicles are junk with so many recalls, owners share custody with the repair shoppes. Corporations cut corners for profits and the union workers don't care about quality work. Corporate and union greed combined with monopolistic practices and closed shop rules is why Americans have lost so much manufacturing.

Sad he keeps saying big 3, when really it’s the dying 3. His vocabulary indicates the status quo is safe.

This guy sounds like a fighter. Love it.

Auto-workers need to transition to e-Bike manufacturing. e-Bikes & multiplex housing are the future.

Muh quo

The UAW should be pushing the big three to stop building EV’s. It’s losing them billions.

Don't expect anything different out of this guy. In the UAW debates he denounced all forms of Socialism and Worker ownership. And recently at the big house in the meeting him he told people we have to be "realistic" about our contract negotiations. Because he has only had 6 months of preparing for a contract. The New Boss is same as the old boss.

The "American dream" isn't dead, it has evolved and people need to as well. Workers do live check to check, but just because you pay them more doesn't mean they'll learn how to budget properly.

I hope you all heard the “and we need to get a piece of that”. He’s referring to your paycheck through dues. Unions are nothing like they used to be. It’s an absolute shame. They’re now worse then the corporations they supposedly push against. This shits gross.

Why does this feel like an ad?

This is amazing, but the backlash will be worse.

Used to be you could be a shoe salesman and make enough to buy a house. Now a shoe salesman can barely make rent on an apt. while at the same time the tops of corporations and those companies are making record profits.

Robotics and automation so bye bye

Communism