联合工会领导人在蓝色浪潮庆祝中对民主党发出2028年警告：“这是一记警钟”

Top union boss drops 2028 warning on Democrats amid blue wave celebration: ‘Wake-up call’

Fain told Fox News Digital that workers will back whoever supports their issues on living wages and healthcare

By Robert Schmad | Fox News
Published November 4, 2026 3:16pm EST

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UAW president lays out why working class vote is not chained to Democrats

Shawn Fain told Fox News Digital that working class voters are independently minded and may support the GOP in 2028 if they make the right promises.

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DETROIT —As results poured in from across the country Tuesday night and a blue wave began to form, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain told Fox News Digital that Democrats’ sweeping midterm victories were no guarantee that working people would stick with the party in 2028.

“It makes me confident that the working class will back whoever supports them, who they see getting behind their issues. I say this all the time, look, we’re not Republicans, we are not Democrats, we aren’t independents. We support people that back us,” Fain said, speaking to Fox News Digital at the Michigan Democratic Party’s election night watch party.

“I just believe, you know, it’s a wake-up call to everyone that they better get behind workers and start supporting people because they’re tired of seeing, you know, $10 billion, $20 billion buyback deals for corporate leaders and for Wall Street while the people that create those profits can’t afford to live,” he continued.

FOX NEWS POLL: MICHIGAN VOTERS SPLIT BETWEEN EL-SAYED AND ROGERS

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Shawn Fain speaks to Fox News Digital at Tuesday night’s Democratic election party in Detroit.(Robert Schmad/Fox News Digital)

Democratic Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan stood in contrast to the GOP’s performance in the state during the 2024 general election, when President Donald Trump won voters without college degrees by approximately 10 percentage points, according to exit polling.

A pillar of the political realignment of the Trump era has been the defection of working-class Americans, particularly the White working class, to the GOP. In 2024, the Teamsters made national headlines by declining to endorse then-Vice President Kamala Harris amid polls suggesting that rank-and-file union members would break for Trump.

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President of the United Auto Workers union Shawn Fain speaks during a midterm election night party for Democrat senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed at The Department at Hudson’s in Detroit, Michigan on November 3, 2026. Americans voting in the midterm elections will decide who controls Congress for the final two years of Donald Trump’s presidency, along with dozens of governorships and thousands of state offices.

President of the United Auto Workers union Shawn Fain speaks during a midterm election night party for Democrat senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed at The Department at Hudson’s in Detroit, Michigan, on Nov. 3, 2026.(Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images)

These shifts have been particularly pronounced in Rust Belt states such as Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin — all three of which saw significant Republican defeats on election night, including major Democratic victories in Senate, gubernatorial and legislative races.

Fain argued that Democrats’ focus on kitchen-table issues facing working people helped propel them to commanding victories in Michigan and across the country.

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Abdul El-Sayed speaks during a midterm election night watch party at the Department at Hudson’s on Nov. 4, 2026, in Detroit, Mich.(Salwan Georges/Getty Images)

“I think it’s just a testament to Michigan here as a microcosm of what’s going on in this country right now. Working-class people have been left behind… these are some of the best times in the history of our nation… corporations are doing well, the rich are taking all the profits… and people are struggling to be able to afford to pay the bills,” he told Fox News Digital. “People come in, outside groups come in, they try to buy seats in Congress, they try to buy our electorate, and I think working-class people woke up to that and they’re fed up with this.”

For Fain, the focus on healthcare, living wages and retirement assistance helps explain the Democratic Party’s sweeping victories on Tuesday night.

“Whatever party gets behind those things and supports those initiatives to take care of people, they’ll be in power for a long time,” said Fain.

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