Good evening, UAW family.

Last week, the president of the United Auto Workers made this speech that was somehow

both folksy and fiery.

When we say our unions back in the fight, we mean it.

He was broadcasting from Solidarity House, the UAW's Detroit headquarters.

He was about to call a massive strike.

We're willing to do what's necessary to win justice by any means necessary.

It was one of the most remarkable speeches by a U.S. labor leader in recent memory.

Why do you say that?

Because we've not seen that degree of militancy and explicit message of fighting for the

entire working class from a labor leader in a very long time.

Barry Eidlin studies organizing at McGill University.

He says the UAW's president, Sean Fein, has this way of talking that gets people to pay

attention.

The part that stood out to me was when he went biblical.

In the Kingdom of God, no one hoards all the wealth while everybody else suffers and

starves.

And then when on likening the conditions that auto workers are facing to help.

In the Kingdom of God, no one forces others to perform endless, back-breaking work just

to feed their families or put a roof over their heads.

That world's not the Kingdom of God.

That world is hell.

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