{"id":54474,"date":"2026-09-01T11:54:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T16:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/?p=54474"},"modified":"2026-09-01T12:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T17:42:07","slug":"congratulations-to-2026-eugene-v-debs-award-recipient-shawn-fain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/congratulations-to-2026-eugene-v-debs-award-recipient-shawn-fain\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to 2026 Eugene V. Debs Award Recipient Shawn Fain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-1611875431.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53037\" style=\"width:305px\" width=\"305\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The officers and directors of the Eugene V. Debs Foundation are pleased to announce that on Saturday, November 21, 2026, the Debs Award will be presented to <strong>Shawn Fain<\/strong>, President of the United Auto Workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brother Shawn Fain began work as an electrician at his Kokomo Indiana hometown Chrysler casting plant in 1994. Following in the footsteps of three UAW member grandparents, he has  been a proud UAW member for over 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Award Banquet will take place in Terre Haute, Indiana, the birthplace and lifelong home of Gene Debs and his home now is an outstanding museum of trade union and socialist memorabilia.<\/p>\n\n\n<br \/>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/landing\/award\/2026-banquet-schedule-and-information\/\">Click Here for Banquet Information<\/a><\/div>\n<br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The officers and directors of the Eugene V. Debs Foundation are pleased to announce that on Saturday, November 21, 2026, the Debs Award will be presented to Shawn Fain, President of the United Auto Workers. Brother Shawn Fain began work as an electrician at his Kokomo Indiana hometown Chrysler casting plant in 1994. Following in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54488,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54474\/revisions\/54488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}