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! 🙏❤️🇺🇸
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!
That is the way it should be. The rank and file electing their top representative. I hope the UAW becomes more like the IWW in their fight against capitalists exploitation of the working class.
I work for a non union company and they pay me better than the union would, I also worked in a ford plant for a while and the union did not impress me.
Why at the IUAW meeting did he tell people they need to be "realistic with their expectations" about the upcoming contract. Saying he only has 6 months to prepare.
Wrong premise! That greatly increases the opportunity for neglect of union workers. There is lack of incentive to follow thru because workers will lack choice. It will be run by globalist elitists who know how to rig the system.
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.
@GuyInCLE Thats 100% not going to happen. The only reason that happened with the rail workers was because of an obscure law from the 1920s regulating interstate commerce on railways.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
@@karengossett1475 firstly, it's not young, just younger than France. Secondly, we should have destroyed that imperialist hellhole as soon as it was born, there is no fixing a fundamentally evil country like the US, a country that runs by design on slavery and oppression; grow up gringa.
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.
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
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!
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.
@@Swordphobicthe red scare placed conservative mafia into unions across the country and dismantled them Ronald Reagan is a great example. He was a government informant and took presidency of the actors union and destroyed it
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 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.
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.
Oh sweetie... you are so confused lmao, it seems you are still under the impression that personal responsibility a.k.a. "pull up yourself by your bootstraps" alla Ben Shabibo is a way out of these systemic issues. Maybe you should take a couple history/economics classes to disabuse you of such nonsensical ideas.
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.
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! 🙏❤️🇺🇸
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!
This man is gonna help change our union and show the world what a UAW autoworker gets vs non union workers!
That is the way it should be. The rank and file electing their top representative. I hope the UAW becomes more like the IWW in their fight against capitalists exploitation of the working class.
I work for a non union company and they pay me better than the union would, I also worked in a ford plant for a while and the union did not impress me.
❤
They'll shut the rest of the plants left in the US.
Why at the IUAW meeting did he tell people they need to be "realistic with their expectations" about the upcoming contract. Saying he only has 6 months to prepare.
One union for the world, together we are strong!
Unions united as one would be a real force to contend with.
USA =/= "the world"
Well at least one union to be the figure for the many unions we need in many industries. If he is really as good as he says, I'll be excited.
Wrong premise! That greatly increases the opportunity for neglect of union workers. There is lack of incentive to follow thru because workers will lack choice.
It will be run by globalist elitists who know how to rig the system.
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.
Workers unite!!!
@@EroticInferno Along with the rest of the world's workers.
@GuyInCLE Thats 100% not going to happen. The only reason that happened with the rail workers was because of an obscure law from the 1920s regulating interstate commerce on railways.
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.
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.
Oh man, this guy got some heavy words. Respect.
Yes! 👍🇺🇸💙
Congrats Shawn, so glad I could vote for you! #UAW
“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.
Well put!
That is correct and the Republicans and Democrats are two sides of the same coin in service to the capitalist class.
Whats the source for the second extremely accurate quote?
GO UNIONS!!!!!!
Well done! 👍👍👍👏👏👏
GO UNIONS!!!!!! 💪💪💪
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.
My father was negotiator for Teamsters Union back in the 1960s and 1970s!
It was good until Hoffa was disappeared.
Think threats were made to union workers with Hoffa's disappearance...
@@b_uppy Yes, my father was gassed by the company, but lived to sue them!
@@maryjanehensley1363
Some companies are run by sociopaths.
@@maryjanehensley1363 in the words of Miles O'Brien, "not just a hero, a union man".
This is good to see.
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.
I absolutely agree! America is still a young Country and we need to learn from other Countries! 🙏❤️🇺🇸
@@karengossett1475 firstly, it's not young, just younger than France. Secondly, we should have destroyed that imperialist hellhole as soon as it was born, there is no fixing a fundamentally evil country like the US, a country that runs by design on slavery and oppression; grow up gringa.
Niiiice. I like this guy 👍
What every union needs.
I have no clue on anything in the auto industry, but kudos to this guy he seems like a peoples' man
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.
Good man. Fight like hell
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.
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!
Let’s go!
Excellent interview President Fain! We are so excited and ready for change!!!
👏👏👏 Congratulations 😊
In solidarity with all Workers ❤
Only Unity and Solidarity make us Strong💪❤!
UAW Proud and STRONG!!
He’s going to kill off the remaining auto industry in the US
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!
I'm proud to have him as our president. Go Shawn! Go UAW!
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.
#UAW is on the rise!
Unions should speak through the workers, no? Unionism should a fight against leaderism.
If UAW really thinks "global" it will not exist. The fact is US manufacturing is just not competitive.
Foreigner here, why has there been no democratically elect president of UAW before?
You're connected to the same internet as the rest of us. Use it.
@@Failure_Is_An_Option Because I want to know what people say about the issue, and not some corporate mouthpiece.
@@Swordphobicthe red scare placed conservative mafia into unions across the country and dismantled them
Ronald Reagan is a great example. He was a government informant and took presidency of the actors union and destroyed it
Thank you, Faiz!
A fkn 84-hour wk?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Faiz Who's that ?
“Mr Fain is helping me find my gun”
"We need to be realistic about our contract expectations, we only have 6 months to prepare" - Shawn Faine.
Yep❗
Let's destroy the (not) new bourgeoisie overlords.
Solidarity. ShakeUp
👍 great news right here!! From Australia
As a member I feel like I voted for the right guy.
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
Oh hell yeah!
It's UNACCEPTABLE that "The first democratically elected UAW President" got elected in 2023!!
DISGUSTING 😤😤
HOPE SHAWN CAN DELIVER!! 🎉🎉❤❤
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.
I support worker rights and unions. Fair and honest pay, compensation for time worked, and all forms of protections
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.
But for the workers, there would be no businesses!
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!
Corporations have no obligations to anything but shareholders. Until we're willing to commit some crimes that is.😂
Wow, I had no idea they were subverting the union with EV development.
Not true at all.
Make us proud Shawn! Do right by us, and we will stand behind you 100% of the way
❤️🇺🇸❤️
We need a union for every profession.
Self-employed people don't need one, though it can be useful for supporting each other
@@dalfokane that is a good point.
LOL... I'll have no part of it.
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!
Yes. "THINK GLOBAL." Transnational unions.
5:26. It's almost like workers of the world should unite....
People that Fight for others😁
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.
Time for everyone's interests to be at the table otherwise we will continue to have poverty throughout the world.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
This guy sounds like a fighter. Love it.
Too bad it's too late for the Caterpillar contract. Sold out again.
i was in the uaw get em bro
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.
UAW international union or a local??
Sad he keeps saying big 3, when really it’s the dying 3. His vocabulary indicates the status quo is safe.
The UAW should be pushing the big three to stop building EV’s. It’s losing them billions.
Seems like a very decent level headed guy with a can do attitude. Something thats missing in america.
Pray for dead fight, like hell for the living
Auto-workers need to transition to e-Bike manufacturing. e-Bikes & multiplex housing are the future.
Just copy Vienna and make it fancier and *ahem* socialized.
Yeah cause people can’t afford cars or houses so they get the cheaper option.
You can't farm with e-bikes
Evs are not going to solve pollution by it self.
They were not elected before?
Muh quo
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.
Oh sweetie... you are so confused lmao, it seems you are still under the impression that personal responsibility a.k.a. "pull up yourself by your bootstraps" alla Ben Shabibo is a way out of these systemic issues. Maybe you should take a couple history/economics classes to disabuse you of such nonsensical ideas.
American dream is dead as fuck, I have a better chance of banging Arianna grande than ever owning a home
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