UAW Union Leader Won’t Meet With Donald Trump This Week
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UAW President Shawn Fain will not meet with Donald Trump this week as the former U.S. president gears up for a rally in Michigan. Trump has attacked UAW leadership on several occasions, including UAW President Fain specifically. Trump’s upcoming rally will be held amid an ongoing UAW strike against all three of the Big Detroit automakers, including GM, Ford, and Stellantis.
Per a report from Politico, UAW President Fain addressed Donald Trump’s upcoming trip to Michigan on CNN Tuesday evening.
“I don’t think the man has any bit of care about what our workers stand for, what the working class stands for,” Fain said. “He serves the billionaire class and that’s what’s wrong with this country.”
Fain went on to slam Trump’s record on labor and the UAW, stating that Trump blamed UAW members in 2008 during the Great Recession, while during Trump’s presidential run in 2015, the then-prospective nominee “talked about doing a rotation, taking all these good-paying jobs in the Midwest and moving them somewhere in the South, where people will work for less money and then to make people beg for their jobs back at lower wages.”
UAW President Shawn Fain addresses UAW members during a speech
Fain added that Donald Trump was “missing in action” in 2019 when the UAW was striking at GM.
“Where was he then? Our workers at [General Motors] were on strike for 60 days, for two months, they were out there on the picket lines,” Fain said.
Trump is scheduled to speak at Drake Enterprises Inc. at 8 p.m. this evening, holding the rally in Michigan in lieu of attending the second Republican presidential primary debate. The rally is reportedly invite-only, and will include “current and former union members.” Drake Automotive employees are not represented by the UAW.
Fain also said that it was a “pathetic irony” that Trump chose a non-union venue for his rally.
Trump’s rally takes place one day after President Biden visited a UAW picket line at the GM Willow Run Distribution Center, marking the first time that a sitting president in modern history has joined a picket line. Biden has voiced support for the UAW since the union declared that it was striking following the expiration of the previous labor contracts on September 14th. Despite the support, the UAW has not yet given formal endorsement to Biden in his bid for reelection.
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Does Fain get paid while they are on strike? Also if there are any UAW guys on here, is he well liked by the workers?
Most large union leaders normally are paid by the unions.
Yes the continue to get paid in strikes and plant closures.
In plant union reps are normally on strike.
He’s actually working and making progress, yet another keyboard warrior like yourself is crying?
God bless the UAW.
Whether you like him or not, The working class had more money, the economy was great, our land was free, crime was very low, vehicle prices were stable and rebates were available, and gas and groceries were affordable. IDK about anyone else but I’d take that back in a HEARTBEAT!!! #45 to #47
TNTSilverado,
You can credit Donald Trump’s predecessor for all of those things. Donald Duck just took the credit for them.
#44 also LED this country out of the second worst depression it has ever seen.
Well said!!!
You can write everything that # 44 did for the country on a postage stamp while enriching himself.
Trump have the economy a sugar rush: Tax cuts lead to stock buy backs & shopping sprees equality a respite from recession; however, these tricks can only happen a few times before it follows out the economy and transforms US into Mexico with a massive wealth gap. Under Trump people were still working 2 and three jobs but he was good at tooting his own horn & telling people they were better off.
Also, remember Biden got the post lock down economy. Trump kept issuing stimulus money and borrowed at historical levels. Biden’s administration got stuck with rebuilding a frozen supply chain and other problems.
Inflation began before Biden. He’s still kept us out of recession without giving the rich extra tax cuts that will make debt repayment important
Look, the number of Trump supporters in the UAW was large in the 2020 Election, and huge now. The geriatric puppet in the WH has been a train wreck for the working class in this country. Time to face the facts, In 2023 the GOP is now the party of the working class.
Well, the GOP is taking money hand over fist from the working class–while doing nothing to actually help the working class.
The pathetic irony is that members of the working class who vote for GOP candidates are usually voting against their own self interests. Weird that so many choose to do so.
Totally agree! W Bush was a union buster but got the working class vote. Wages dropped under both Bush and Trump yet working class see Dems as elitist and condescending which is a huge messaging problem. Few believe that Bernie, not Trump, will provide the most help.
Gore, Kerry, Hillary Clinton would have done more for workers rights and low income American but were stiff and unlikable. I don’t vote personality. I look at policy.
Oh, bull shet. Trumps been nothing but a two bit carnival barking fraud his whole life. He looks at people like you as just morons he can manipulate. You just aren’t intelligent enough to know it.
If there weren’t any cameras around for Donald Duck to play up to he would kick out any non-rich supporters who tried to enter Mar-A-Lago.
Fain’s loss.
How do the UAW members feel about Biden letting 6 million undocumented immigrants into the country and issuing them work permits? I’m sure you realize that they’ll be competing for your jobs.
They are necessary to do the work Americans won’t do. George W. Bush is the one who said it. He should know.
bush might of said it, but Biden is doing it.
An excellent point that libbies here don’t want to talk about.
Do you ever think about the fact that these are 6 million people who, after getting established, will be working and purchasing food, clothing, shelter, transportation, etc. In other words, growing the economy and creating jobs for all citizens. Without growth our economy & nation dies.
The only reason Joe even went there is a reaction after Trump announced beforehand that he was going.
And biden spoke for less than 3 min. That is all he could handle before he needed his nap time.
Trump’s staff follows him around with a porta potty on the back of a pickup.
Yes because he’s full of 💩
President Biden has a country to run
Donald Duck spent his presidency traveling around the country patting himself on the back for all the things he was lying to you about.
you are right on, joe yoman. That’s theonly reason why that brain dead idiot does anything, to get a vote, and still he screws it up.
Fain in the a$$ should move to Cuba where his beliefs and ideas are in line with the government. He could head up the auto workers there. ….Oh that’s right. Cuba has no auto workers.
Trump has already said that all unions should be abolished and he expects that all the workers working for him should work for slave labour wages.
Why is this mob boss not in jail yet after multiple attacks on our country?
Bob White,
DJT AKA Donald Duck doesn’t even pay his employees he usually stiffs them.
With any luck he will soon be wearing an orange jumpsuit to match his orange hair.
I can see that there are plenty of misguided Trump supporters on this site. Like the article said, he represents the billionaire class and couldn’t care less about the little people. Somehow he has managed to convince some in the working class that he is on their side. You can add that to the 50,000 documented lies he has said during his 4 year disastrous term in office.
John Z-He has even stiffed his lawyers, that’s why all his current lawyers insist on being paid in advance.
Bob White,
Donald Duck is grifting his campaign supporters and using campaign donations to pay his legal fees.
Jim Jones got his followers to drink the Kool-Aid. Do you think it will work for Donald Trump. I think it would.
You’re flat out wrong. It’s the subcontractors who have historically been stiffed by the orange one.
I don’t think Donald Duck is particular about who he stiffs., as long as the money stays in his pocket.
when did we start calling president Biden donald duck?
Chris Christie called DJT Donald Duck last night.
Chris Christie is not afraid to speak the truth about Donald duck. Unlike the rest of the republicans.
Fain bet all his money on a broken down fool who’s on the Communist payroll. Biden wants to do more business with China and their EV battery companies. Biden wants his commission checks to keep coming by sending Xi more business. Biden should be in prison for treason!
Trump is going to a non-union plant to rally with workers. Workers that don’t attend will probably be docked for it. Then he can travel around the country telling everybody he supports auto workers. What a POS. Why doesn’t he talk about getting rid of Citizen’s United Case Law? Instead, he wants to be dictator like Putin and Kim Jung Un. Again, what a POS.
Well dah!!!! Fain is nothing but a puppet for the far left who was put in to destroy manufacturing in the USA. People are much more easy to control when they no longer have jobs and need the government for everything. Can’t do that if the middle class is alive still.
Donald Duck did nothing for the middle class.
Only the rich benefited from his tax reform.
I am middle class and got nothing from his tax reform.
Morally bankrupt, narcissistic, pathological liar.
Donald Duck had a wonderfully better healthcare plan for the middle class. It was supposed to replace the Affordable Care Act.
No one ever saw it and he never produced it.
Just another one of his lies.
so, John Z, you are saying you are better off now than you were before Biden. I’m gonna stick my neck out before you answer and call you a liar.
He’s not a liar but you are certainly an idiot if you think you were better off with Putin.
I was better off after Donald Duck’s predecessor, # 44.
44’s involvement with the bankruptcies of the automotive companies saved my job, my pension, and created the UAW Medical Benefits Trust, so I had health care until I reached 65.
LIAR ! Troll !
You certainly are.
Please list just one thing the orange one did for the middle class. Be specific.
He convinced the middle class white christian right to attack their own seat of government and do his dirty work. This lead to the death of multiple individuals including the suicide of law enforcement officers.
All this because his weak ego couldn’t accept the fact that he was a LOSER in the most fair and scrutinized election in the history of the United States.
Rick,
I could never understand how religious right-wing conservatives could back a morally bankrupt narcissistic pathological liar.
Donald Duck is helping to rewrite history. He is making President Nixon look like an altar boy.
Please name 1 thing that Biden did to make your dollar go farther since he has been placed in office.
Placed in office by getting more votes. I now pay less for insulin.
Sorry you’re a diabetic. I suppose you blame the orange one for that as well.
That Insulin price rip-off was recognized and action to lower it was initiated by the Trump Administration. More votes ? Bwa-ha-ha…more unvetted “mail-in votes” that were unable to be audited as to who cast them. Never forget that fact !!!!!!!!!!! Accompanied by blatant “Collusion” from the corrupt, weaponized FBI in paid (proven ) cooperation with the biased jerks at Twitter and Facebook in withholding election-altering information from the U.S. voter about a certain laptop’s contents.
You’d better stop writing. Your ignorance is too glaring.
If you mean Donald Duck initiated action that means he talked about it and did nothing. Just like his wonderful health care plan for the middle class.
More than 60 Courts told the fat orange slob and his lawyers to go pound sand. I guess that’s what happens when you have no evidence of wrong doing. But the fat orange slob loves the uneducated.
So take comfort knowing that someone ( the fat orange slob) loves you.
Tax cuts, energy independence, smashed ISIS, low illegal immigration, wall started, low gas prices, stock market was surging. Covid was not his fault, but he dealt with it as long as he was in office. You Trump haters seem to easily forget how good the economy was then and how your 401Ks were gaining a lot of ground. Biden is printing money to pay for his stupid ideas, and if you don’t understand how illegal immigration and printing/ borrowing money, forcing EV cars and woke climate change stupidity, eliminating gas stoves and the like hurts you, then you’re beyond help to understand anything other than what the talking heads on the nearly defunct CNN tell you.
You must have bought those Rose Colored Glasses from Donald Duck.
Jetdrinker, none of the things you say were done by orangehead. It’s really hard to think how somebody could be that uninformed.
Biden is printing money to pay for Donald Duck’s stupid ideas, jet driver
Biden is printing money because he and Hunters off shore accounts are getting low. Worst president in history and most corrupt.
Umm…tariffs…..
Can’t understand why trump would wasted his time on the man
There was so much hate for Trump, the real donald duck would have beat him. Now look at our USA. Virtually everything is worse under stumbling, blundering Biden and yet we have idiots still making excuses for that fool. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.
More little girls are being sniffed and groped, so there’s that…
IF the “former” UAW “leadership” had not been doing such an incredibly inept job at keeping member’s wages in-line with vehicle price hikes and rampant Inflation, the current “leadership” would not need to try and bargain for a sudden, astounding 46% pay increase and a 32 hour work week that has eroded public support for the UAW contract demands.
Fain is incredibly dumb not meeting with Trump in view of that fact and because the UAW is going to lose at least 50% of its membership due to Biden’s insane EV policy and Fain had better start realizing that because his members are beginning to do so and realize the DemocRATS are NOT their friends.
Fain said “I don’t think the man has any bit of care about what our workers stand for, what the working class stands for.” Sounds to me that Fain is describing Brandon.
President Biden has a country to run
Donald Duck spent his presidency traveling around the country patting himself on the back for all the things he was lying to you about.
Tomtellitlikeitis,
I have been called an ass before in my life, but never a racist or a bigot.
You sir, are a racist and a bigot.