United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain recently laid out four priorities he says should form the nucleus of a Workers’ Political Program - and he said that a broad Strike in May 2028 is one way to fight for those priorities.

Fain spoke at the release of a new report by the Center for Working-Class Politics, Jacobin, and allied groups. The report, titled Democrats’ Rust Belt Struggles and the Promise of Independent Politics, is based on a new survey showing Workers in four States battered by decades of mass layoffs - Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin - are eager to see their basic issues addressed in the political arena.

The three thousand people surveyed supported policies that addressed “corporate greed and political corruption while correcting inequities in ways that felt immediate and tangible for Working Families,” the report found.

Respondents included people of all political affiliations and classes - and were representative of the States’ populations.

Fain said UAW polling has found Union Auto Workers have similar priorities.

He named these four: Wages, Health Care, Retirement and Winning back control of time - no more 12-hour days or working two jobs.

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