UAW president Shawn Fain: "I truly find it pathetic when I hear Trump—a scab—talk about how he's going to bring back the auto industry and bring it back fast. When he was president, he didn't do a damn thing to help the auto industry. Plants were closing and left this country, and he did nothing to help it.”
Something doesn’t sit right with that teamsters guy because he also said this:
https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1813263649349280139
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You’re probably right although speaking at the RNC made it seem like he was leaning towards the GOP. It also caused at least 1 active teamster to think the right was pro union so I had to share the clip.
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How does it sacrifice long term goals? He should be pressuring legacy democrats the same as Republicans. With this move he forced the Republican party to appear more union friendly and at the same time put a fire under the asses of democrats to keep passing pro-union policy wherever they can.