Jordan Interviews UAW President Shawn Fain: We're Fighting for "What the Hell We Deserve," Biden Still Hasn't Earned Endorsement

UAW President also rejects Ford CEO Jim Farley's lies made in response to the union expanding the strike on Friday. Jordan will be LIVE from Ford strike in Chicago this afternoon

Hey folks, it’s Jordan.

I had the pleasure of interviewing UAW President Shawn Fain yesterday for the second time yesterday from the GM strike picket line in Lansing Michigan. Yesterday, Fain announced an expansion of the strike to include a Ford Assembly plant in Chicago with nearly 5,000 workers and a GM assembly plant in Lansing, Michigan.

“They have to own this, they’re the reason we’re all sitting out here right now, none of us want to be out here right now…our membership is fed up and they’re energized.” Fain also said in his 29 years with UAW, he has never seen the union workers standing so strongly together and ready to “fight for what the hell we deserve.”

WATCH JORDAN’S INTERVIEW BELOW:

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This is very different from local and national media, who generally show up for 10-20 minutes, interview a worker or two for a few minutes, and then slice it down to 20 seconds for the nightly news. As they neuter the workers’ words down to a few seconds, the anchor typically recited the corporate line about the strike “hurting the economy” and “hurting the consumer.”

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As always, thank you so much for your support. I’ll see you this afternoon LIVE from the Ford strike in Chicago.

Jordan