On Monday, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain issued a statement doubling down on his support for Trump’s tariffs, denouncing “free trade” and echoing the far-right economic nationalism of the fascist president. www.wsws.org/en/articles/... - ThreadSky

hdgregg.bsky.social • 4 days ago

On Monday, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain issued a statement doubling down on his support for Trump’s tariffs, denouncing “free trade” and echoing the far-right economic nationalism of the fascist president.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/19/rgyn-j19.html

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smenor.com•4 days ago

Ugh

hdgregg.bsky.social•4 days ago

The union released this statement just two days after what may have been the largest protests in American history. Between 5 and 11 million people took part in demonstrations across the United States last weekend against the dictatorial measures by the Trump administration.

hdgregg.bsky.social•4 days ago

These protests erupted following Trump’s order to deploy the military in Los Angeles, where troops were used to violently suppress demonstrations in defense of immigrant workers.

hdgregg.bsky.social•4 days ago

The UAW and other major unions effectively boycotted the protests. The UAW apparatus made no effort to mobilize its membership, including more than a million active and retired autoworkers. Not even in Detroit, where tens of thousands of auto and parts workers live, did the UAW make an appearance.

hdgregg.bsky.social•4 days ago

Fain’s statement also followed a particularly unhinged social media post by Trump on Sunday, in which he called for the biggest immigration raids in history, incited his right-wing base to violence and implictly denounced protesters as not “real Americans.”

hdgregg.bsky.social•4 days ago

Fain’s depiction of the world economy is taken directly from the playbook of Trump and the far right. The central premise is that the problem lies not with capitalism but with the “disloyal” behavior of corporate executives and foreign governments undermining American industry.

hdgregg.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is the classic appeal of economic nationalism: the false identification of the interests of workers with the interests of the capitalist nation-state, and the presentation of reactionary, pro-business policies—like tariffs—as if they were in the interests of the working class.

hdgregg.bsky.social•4 days ago

The video, posted to X/Twitter, blames job losses in America on Mexican autoworkers, endorsing what is in reality an economic war against workers both “foreign” and “native.”

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