United Auto Workers (UAW) president Shawn Fain said that his union was “ready to work" with President-elect Trump in an op-ed published on Sunday.
UAW boss Shawn Fain said he hopes to find common ground with President Donald Trump. In addition to supporting tariffs, Fain would like to see the USMCA renegotiated. The union recently got its wish after Stellantis confirmed the Belvidere plant will build a new truck.
Fain hopes the UAW's concerns can be addressed upon the re-negotiation of the agreement: "For autoworkers, workers who build farm and construction equipment, and so many other factory workers, U.S. trade policy is not an abstraction. It’s a bomb going off in America’s working class, literally destroying families and communities."
Rather than promoting working class unity, Shawn Fain is normalizing and giving labor cover to Trump’s divisive agenda.
The efforts of the United Auto Workers bureaucracy to collaborate with Trump, based on their shared "America First" economic nationalism, have accelerated in since the inauguration.
Fain has gone almost overnight from presenting himself as a so-called “militant,” “democratic unionist,” spouting slogans like “eat the rich” and denouncing Trump as a scab, to announcing his willingness to collaborate with the most right-wing government in US history.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has promised sweeping actions in his second administration. The president-elect has outlined a wide-ranging agenda that blends traditional conservative approaches to taxes, regulation and cultural issues with a more populist bent on trade and a shift in America’s international role.
The United Auto Workers hopes to find common ground with the president on trade policy. For 40 years, the American working class, especially blue-collar manufacturing workers, has been under attack. Corporate America went on the offensive in the 1980s, shutting down plants and cutting thousands of jobs.
The appearance marks the end of her term as vice president and comes after her high-pressure run against Trump for the Oval Office. Earlier this month, on the fourth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, she presided over the electoral vote count, pointing out that the ceremony was “a peaceful transfer of power.”
Harris and former Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff met with Los Angeles County firefighters and volunteers distributing free meals in Altadena.