Biden on Friday urged the automakers to offer more money, while Trump has attacked the UAW’s president
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He posted a video last month urging union members not to pay their dues. On Friday, the former president again tried to exploit fears that the EV transition will be led by China, though Biden is investing billions in subsidies to encourage EVs to be built in the United States instead. Trump has repeatedly tied the strike to electric vehicles even though the workers are primarily demanding higher wages and an end to the “two-tier” wage system — issues unrelated to the clean energy transition.
Trump wrote on Truth Social, the social media network he owns, that pushing to build electric cars is a “disaster for both the United Auto Workers and the American Consumer.” He added: “If this happens, the United Auto workers will be wiped out, along with all other auto workers in the United States.”
That position was not only tangential to the demands of the union, but it also clashed with the strategy of Detroit auto manufacturers, who have been investing rapidly in EV production. Although Fain has not embraced Biden, the UAW leader has had harsher words for Trump, accusing him of being a “part of the billionaire class.”“Trump is trying to hold onto his Rust Belt base by pretending that if they weren’t building electric cars that the union would not be facing a problem.
Trump’s appointments to the National Labor Relations Board infuriated labor leaders, and they wound up making it harder to form unions and limiting overtime pay. His top economic policy, the 2017 GOP tax cut, was widely panned by labor leaders. And his appointments to the federal judiciary have also consistently sided with corporate interests.
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