The head of the United Auto Workers union has raised eyebrows by praising President Donald Trump‘s taxes, but he maintains his place toward the president has not changed.
” Only because we find common ground on taxes or business doesn’t mean that everything else goes out the window”, UAW President Shawn Fain said on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday. ” There is no trade-off around”.
He took that a stage further last week by praising Trump’s 25 % car taxes, saying they do bring an end to the “free trade devastation”.
” The Trump administration has made record with today’s steps”, Fain said after the taxes were announced. ” The UAW and the working group in general don’t worry less about gathering politics, working people expect leaders to work up to provide results”.
He reiterated that information on Sunday when asked whether the increase from Trump’s business protectionism was for his anti-union plans.
The Trump management has a somewhat pro-union position when it comes to the private market but has been brutal in taking action against public sector organisations. It moved to reduce collective bargaining rights from hundreds of thousands of national workers last month, an issue that’s positive to wind up in court.
Fain said Trump’s anti-union steps were 100 times worse than previous President Ronald Reagan’s renowned fire of air traffic controllers in 1981.
“You’re talking, you know, 700, 000 people, their arrangements really being taken apart”, Fain said. ” Free talk is under assault. Organisations are under attack”.
Perhaps so, he stuck by his attitude that trade jobs would be a plus for British car employees.
” We’re not partisan to any one party”, Fain said.
Fain even praised Trump’s top business consultant, Peter Navarro, saying he is place on about tariffs and that economists criticizing the plan are bad.
” The same academics that are saying this now are the similar people in 1992 that said immediately, when NAFTA was created, there would be 400, 000 jobs created in America”, Fain said. ” We know what happened that — they got it wrong”.
Taxes are an matter, he continued, just because a bottom-line-oriented Wall Street has taken notice.
UAW compliments Trump car tariffs and end of ‘ free trade disaster ‘
” Where was Wall Street when all these companies were leaving the country over the last 30 times”? he asked.
Fain called for more vehicle manufacturers to shift jobs out of Mexico, saying that workers that earn as little as$ 3 an afternoon, and he called for a renewal of the United States-Mexico-Canada deal, which is up for renewal next year.
