Mike Rogers Caught in Web of Lies Over False Autoworker Claims

New Reporting Exposes Mike Rogers’ Extensive Deception Over Supposed Autoworker Background

MICHIGAN –  A new report from Michigan Advance exposes Mike Rogers’ repeated lies about his supposed history as an auto factory worker. In a desperate and transparent bid to connect with working Michiganders, who he has sold out to corporations and special interests at every turn, Multi-Millionaire Mike has spent years lying about being a former autoworker. 

Rogers has repeatedly said that he worked in an auto factory, an utterly false claim:

• In recent years, Rogers has claimed numerous times that he either worked in a factory or an assembly line. But research shows that “Rogers never worked for one of the Big Three automakers during his college years… [and] never worked on an automotive assembly line.”
• “In that way, the UAW said that Rogers was greatly inflating his experience as an assembly line worker.”
• In the words of a former president of a local UAW chapter: “[Rogers] has tried to campaign as a champion of the auto worker when, in fact, he has no concept nor respect for the work that we do.”

Rogers has made his alleged autoworker background a core feature of his campaigns, but these claims do not hold water: 

• In his 2024 campaign, Rogers mentioned in a news release that he had worked in two different auto factory facilities and understood the “blood, sweat and tears” of Michigan’s auto workers. This claim soon became a fixture of his campaign messaging.
• “In a 2025 interview, Rogers again claimed that he worked in an auto factory making Sebring convertibles — which would have been impossible considering the Sebring wasn’t manufactured until well after Rogers had attended Adrian College, joined the military, worked in law enforcement and was a sitting member of the state Legislature.”
• Reflecting on Rogers’ lies, a UAW leader summed it up: “It’s insulting to my brethren who have spent their lives chasing the chain, whether it’s an assembly plant or a parts plant, sequencing, packaging, whatever it is; the supply chain of the automotive industry,” he said. “If you did not do time in the plant, that’s fine, but don’t act as if you had, and don’t talk to Michiganders about something which millions of us over the generations have experienced, have made careers of, have raised families on because of the collective bargaining power of the UAW.”

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