Mike Miller was elected Region 6 Director in December of 2022.  

Mike’s involvement with the UAW started in 1992 when he was a Teaching Assistant at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), and he and his co-workers began forming their union as academic student employees at the University of California (UC). After many years of struggle, including several recognition strikes and numerous other creative tactics, UC recognized their union and bargained a first agreement with what became UAW Local 2865 (now 4811). 

Since then, Mike has worked with organizing committees at several employers across now-Region 6 to help them form unions. Just since the beginning of his first term in 2022, more than 25,000 workers have won recognition of their union in Region 6, and that number increases frequently.

From the Stand Up Strike and auto organizing to the Kill the Cuts movement, Mike works with workers across all sectors of Region 6 and the UAW to form new unions, bargain standard-setting agreements through militant and participatory contract campaign tactics, and fight for political change that benefits all working people. Some areas of focus include: organizing in the electric vehicle manufacturing industry, creating worker-centered industrial policy, reforming and expanding public funding of research and education, taking on the billionaire class, fighting the devastating effects of climate change on working class communities, promoting racial and gender justice, expanding immigrants’ rights, advancing housing justice, fighting for Medicare for All, and helping elect pro-working class candidates to office. 