In a speech to United Auto Workers members on Wednesday, Shawn Fain laid into the Big Three, explained the UAW's new “stand-up strike,” and invoked the Bible to declare their battle a righteous fight for justice. We print his prepared remarks here in full.
I’m with the strikers and those still working, but Fain can shove his bible thumping justifications up his ass. The UAW is a secular institution, demands should be based on facts. I don’t need to see anymore of his grandma’s book of fairy tales to know what workers deserve. Fain should leave his personal faith out of the struggle. Pretty insensitive to the multitude of Muslim employees not to mention those of other or no faith.
Sorry, but this feels unnecessarily hostile towards religion. If you hadn’t read his full remarks, I would encourage you to do so (and if you did, apologies but this is the internet and we all usually read just the headlines/blurbs!)
He outlines really well why they’re striking and what they need to fight for. He’s clear to draw from the Bible for his own personal inspiration to why he does what he’s doing and leaning on two passages out of the Bible about having faith and the old “camel through the eye of a needle” quote. The faith he talks about though is a faith in their fellow workers and doing what is right, driving towards the overall mission towards a better life for the members. I thought he was very clear in that regard and not excluding/being insensitive towards non-Christians.
It was supplemental to the message he wanted to tell about this being the time to stand up and to have faith in their mission. It didn’t come off as instructive in what to do as your comment lead me to assume.