Former chief of staff @UAW & architect of 2023 Stand Up Strike. @Jacobin columnist. Previously @nyguild / @cwaunion & NEA & @labornotes.

Detroit, MI
Joined September 2010
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A tour de force discussion on the state of the US labor movement and organizing methodology, plus the bizarre story of the court-appointed union monitor’s (failed!) attempt to sabotage Shawn Fain’s leadership of UAW. @micahuetricht interviews @chactivist. Highly recommended!
New on The Dig: Confronting Labor's Crisis w/ Micah Uetricht & Chris Brooks The US labor movement has long been in serious crisis - but we might soon be hitting a point of no return, after which the revival of organized labor might not be possible.
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Good morning - it's an excellent day to unionize your AutoZone if you're feeling understaffed. This company can afford it. Hit us up if you need support.
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🚨Bombshell story by Matthew Cole about Jared Kushner from Cole’s book, Princes and Thieves, which comes out next week. The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million in Transfers vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
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Explosive story many years in the making, now out in Vanity Fair by Matthew Cole (who will be on Breaking Points next week, and publishing soon in @DropSiteNews): Saudi Arabia and the UAE set up multi-billion slush funds for Jared Kushner to use. Iran-Contra 2 here (except with Iran-Contra, at least the US got some hostages released. Not clear what we got out of this one.)
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Aside from the shocking substance of this story, what's amazing is how it was unearthed by Cole. The short version: The Russians were able to penetrate Jared Kushner's iPhone and extract screenshots and data. Then, a Russian intel official was captured by Dutch intelligence (!) and flipped. The Dutch believed Kushner may have been acting on behalf of Russia, so pursued him as an intel target and were able to get into his phone. They did not find any evidence of Russian collusion, instead they watched him moving hundreds of millions of dollars from slush funds created by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, one of them housed in Israel's central bank. Incredible reporting, and if Democrats have any sense, they will pull on these threads and learn a lot more about this money.
Explosive story many years in the making, now out in Vanity Fair by Matthew Cole (who will be on Breaking Points next week, and publishing soon in @DropSiteNews): Saudi Arabia and the UAE set up multi-billion slush funds for Jared Kushner to use. Iran-Contra 2 here (except with Iran-Contra, at least the US got some hostages released. Not clear what we got out of this one.)
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The largest forces in the world can be humbled by groups of workers. Listen to Yael Bridge, Jeremy Flood & Erick Stoll on our latest episode, Who Moves America pod.fo/e/6b95c1
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The only “UAW for Rogers” is the UAW members left waiting for Rogers in the hallway with the trash can because he wouldn’t meet with them. Here’s what his UAW member constituents thought of him while he was in Congress: michiganadvance.com/2026/10/…
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Shawn Fain is right. It is an outrage that GM is spending $20 billion on stock buybacks to enrich its wealthy shareholders, while 80% of its autoworkers no longer have a pension or retiree health benefits. That $20 billion should be going to workers, not Wall Street executives.
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ICYMI: On Thursday, the UAW released an hour-long conversation between UAW President Shawn Fain and Michigan Senate candidate @AbdulElSayed covering a wide range of topics that matter to working-class voters ahead of Election Day. 📽️ ow.ly/TxmW50ZYqKg
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Let’s be real about why theres a flood of unhinged attacks in this Senate race. Divide & conquer is all they got. This race is the working class having a voice in Senate vs another corporate/billionaire lackey. That’s why there hundreds of @uaw members knocking doors right now
ICYMI: On Thursday, the UAW released an hour-long conversation between UAW President Shawn Fain and Michigan Senate candidate @AbdulElSayed covering a wide range of topics that matter to working-class voters ahead of Election Day. 📽️ ow.ly/TxmW50ZYqKg
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There is no greater threat inside a union than ideologically committed reformers. Listen to Micah Uetricht and Chris Brooks on our latest episode, Confronting Labor's Crisis pod.fo/e/68a498
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People don't trust AI. They trust labor to fight for them. Listen to @micahuetricht and @chactivist on our latest episode, Confronting Labor's Crisis pod.fo/e/68a498
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Sick of the hateful rhetoric? Here’s an honest conversation between @ShawnFainUAW & @AbdulElSayed about what faith and family mean to two leaders fighting for a more just society.
Shawn Fain and Abdul El-Sayed talk faith and family ahead of the 2026 midterm election. Watch the full candid one-on-one conversation here youtu.be/RKWtIHePUjo
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Shawn Fain and Abdul El-Sayed talk faith and family ahead of the 2026 midterm election. Watch the full candid one-on-one conversation here youtu.be/RKWtIHePUjo
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The message from United Auto Workers members in their recent internal elections, in which President Shawn Fain and his slate are poised to win big, is clear, argues former Fain Chief of Staff Chris Brooks: they want their union to keep fighting. jacobin.com/2026/10/uaw-elec…
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In internal union elections that approached their ending this week, UAW President Shawn Fain’s former chief of staff argues, Fain and United UAW have received a strong mandate from the membership to keep moving the union in a militant direction. jacobin.com/2026/10/uaw-elec…
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Congratulations to UAW President Shawn Fain on his reelection. Shawn is one of the great union leaders in our country. He has taken on the billionaire class, won strong victories for his members and understands the need to organize, organize, organize. Solidarity forever!
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Despite heavy opposition, United UAW candidates are winning in the union’s internal elections by overwhelming margins, suggesting widespread membership support for @ShawnFainUAW's aggressive approach to bargaining and organizing: jacobin.com/2026/10/uaw-elec…
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