UAW Lobbies Lawmakers to Give Driver’s Licenses to Illegal Immigrants

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Members of the United Auto Workers are paying to lobby lawmakers to give driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants in Michigan.

“With over 300,000 active and retired members, the UAW is Michigan’s largest union. We fight for the working class, and we strongly encourage our legislators to do the same by taking urgent action to pass legislation that helps working families and our communities,” UAW President Shawn Fain wrote to lame duck Democrats in the Michigan legislature.

The Dec. 4 letter obtained by Michigan Capitol Confidential urges lawmakers to adopt a Drive SAFE bill package with yea votes for House bills 4410, 4411, and 4412.

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The UAW’s most recent LM-2 report to the U.S. Department of Labor shows auto union spent $4.1 million in member dues on political activities and lobbying in 2023, including on social issues that many of its members disagree with.

“Unfortunately, UAW officials are continuing their long, sad history of promoting political and social issues that either have nothing to do with the auto industry or in fact can harm the environment that creates auto jobs in the private sector,” Terry Bowman, a Ford employee for nearly three decades, wrote in an email to Michigan Capital Confidential.

Bowman was a UAW member for 13 years before ditching the union over “political and social agendas I strongly disagreed with and knew were harmful to America’s auto industry.”

Bowman helped to push for Michigan to become a right to work state in 2013, when lawmakers allowed union members to opt out of dues that fund the union’s politics.

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But Democrats that control the Michigan legislature repealed the state’s right to work laws this year, which means members are again required to finance the UAW’s political speech, whether they agree with it or not.

And even Fain admits most do not.

The same day the UAW endorsed President Joe Biden, Fain acknowledged most of his members backed President-elect Donald Trump.

“Let me be clear about this: A great majority of our members will not vote for President Biden,” Fain told Fox News host Neil Cavuto. “The majority of our members are going to vote their paychecks, they’re going to vote for an economy that works for them.”

The UAW’s lame duck legislative agenda in Michigan is just the latest warning “that unlike what the UAW claims, the union does not represent the will of the workers,” Bowman wrote.

“Official union political and social positions do not flow up from the actual will of the workers, but instead are forced on us by the personal political and social ideology of just a few UAW executives in positions of power,” according to Bowman.

“This is why all workers … in the private sector deserve the same rights, freedoms, and protections that public sector workers enjoy. We need protection from the very same unions that incorrectly claim to have our best interest at heart.”

Michigan Capitol Confidential notes its not just the UAW that’s collecting millions in dues to fight its own members.

The Michigan chapter of the American Federation of Teachers union is also pushing its members to obstruct Trump’s planned deportation of immigrants in the United States illegally.

“AFT members who work in schools – from teachers, school support staff and nurses, to bus drivers – can play a critical role in helping end the cruel criminalization, detention and deportation of students and families,” AFT-Michigan President Terrence Martin wrote in a Dec. 9 President’s Update.

The message came with resources from AFT headquarters that offers “tools and resources to help protect and prepare youth and families in case of immigration and customs enforcement raids.”

The Drive SAFE legislation was not approved by lawmakers during the lame duck session, which devolved into chaos and Democratic infighting, forcing House Speaker Rep. Joe Tate, D-Detroit, to adjourn without a quorum until Dec. 31.