LANSING — New reporting from Michigan Advance reveals Mike Rogers’ “unwillingness to be questioned” by UAW members regarding his record and policy positions caused a “strained relationship with him when he was last in Congress,” to the point that Rogers refused to meet with the union’s members at all. As a result, UAW members reported they “spent more time with the trash can outside Rogers’ office” than they did with Rogers himself — and they have the picture to prove it:

UAW members circle around the trash can outside of Mike Rogers’ Washington, D.C., office circa 2014, after years of Rogers refusing to meet with members of Michigan’s largest union. (Photo by Mike Huerta, published by Michigan Advance)

“Mike Rogers was so dismissive of autoworkers when he was in Congress that he treated UAW members like literal trash,” said Michigan Democratic Party spokesperson Joey Hannum. “Rogers has only ever been out for himself and the corporate special interests cutting him checks, not Michiganders, and he would continue his blatant disrespect of working people if he were in the U.S. Senate.” 

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Michigan Advance: UAW members recall tense encounters with Mike Rogers during his time in Congress

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