🧵 From UAW President Shawn Fain: “The UAW supports aggressive tariff action to protect American manufacturing jobs as a good first step to undoing decades of anti-worker trade policy. We do not support using factory workers as pawns in a fight over immigration or drug policy. - ThreadSky

uaw.org • 21 days ago

🧵 From UAW President Shawn Fain:

“The UAW supports aggressive tariff action to protect American manufacturing jobs as a good first step to undoing decades of anti-worker trade policy. We do not support using factory workers as pawns in a fight over immigration or drug policy.

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chad-frederick.bsky.social•21 days ago

#generalstrike

cheetodusty.bsky.social•21 days ago

Are you nuts?

dennis-101.bsky.social•11 days ago

Brian, my wife is curious which woman you hugged today.
You have makeup on your suit

eclecticoldbag.bsky.social•21 days ago

Agreed

bram1bulldog.bsky.social•21 days ago

As a Canadian that supported you and cheered you on during your strikes I am so deeply disappointed and hurt that my so called brothers and sisters in a union capacity could be so disrespectful and shameful to the Canadian people

a-blueberry-cake.bsky.social•20 days ago

Its not even just that. Trump is using the tariffs as a replacement for capital gains tax, to further steal from the poor and enrich the morbidly rich

gobucksgo.bsky.social•21 days ago

Sorry UAW, tarrifs are not the answer. Step down Shawn and let someone that cares lead the UAW.

pricelessprebolus.bsky.social•21 days ago

The tarrifs are going to hurt us. They're going to be put on the parts we need to run. I like you, but you gotta not capitulate to this madness. DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE.

fistfulofcraic.bsky.social•20 days ago

With deep knowledge of the supply network & engineering sourcing at multiple OEMs at multiple tiers, tariffs will not work.

uaw.org•21 days ago

We are willing to support the Trump Administration’s use of tariffs to stop plant closures and curb the power of corporations that pit US workers against workers in other countries.

uaw.org•21 days ago

But so far, Trump’s anti-worker policy at home, including dissolving collective bargaining agreements and gutting the National Labor Relations Board, leaves American workers facing worsening wages and working conditions even while the administration takes aggressive tariff action.

lawfulkimpasse.bsky.social•20 days ago

hey, at least he got there eventually

uaw.org•21 days ago

If Trump is serious about bringing back good blue collar jobs destroyed by NAFTA, the USMCA, and the WTO, he should go a step further and immediately seek to renegotiate our broken trade deals.

uaw.org•21 days ago

The national emergency we face is not about drugs or immigration, but about a working class that has fallen behind for generations while corporate America exploits workers abroad and consumers at home for massive Wall Street paydays.

uaw.org•21 days ago

We need to stop plant closures, bring back American jobs, and stop the global race to the bottom immediately. Any tariff action must be followed with a renegotiation of the USMCA, and a full review of the corporate trade regime that has devastated the American and global working class.”

johnbrown59.bsky.social•20 days ago

Sure, all well and good that free trade is dead but Trump is a fascist who will destroy what's left of the unions. You might as well just have released a statement surrendering.

heidipr.bsky.social•19 days ago

Keeping U.S. auto plants operating is a good thing, but is there going to be that follow up renegotiation of the USMCA and “full review of the corporate trade regime that has devastated the American working class?”

-daughter/granddaughter of Ford Motor Company’s Lorain Assembly Plant electricians

andrear9md.bsky.social•21 days ago

I laugh because I am done crying, If you think trump is gonna do anything to help you I wonder, where have you been? The dude is in bed with musk. Kiss all your collective bargaining and consumer incentives goodbye. Nice knowin' ya.