UAW pres­i­dent slams Trump’s labor record ahead of for­mer pres­i­den­t’s appear­ance at ral­ly

Unit­ed Auto Work­ers Pres­i­dent Shawn Fain expressed crit­i­cism of for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump and his labor record, claim­ing Trump could have a hard time win­ning over mem­bers of the UAW ahead of his vis­it.
Fain’s crit­i­cism of the for­mer pres­i­dent stems from his appar­ent treat­ment of the UAW in the past, with Fain argu­ing that Trump’s record “speaks for itself.” The UAW pres­i­dent argued that Trump “blamed our con­tracts” dur­ing the 2008 reces­sion and that Trump “talked about doing rota­tion” in 2015 by mov­ing jobs from the Mid­west to the South, “where peo­ple work for less mon­ey.”
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“I see no point in meet­ing with him because 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 Tues­day. “He’s the bil­lion­aire class and that’s what’s wrong with our coun­try.”

Fain was asked if his crit­i­cisms of Trump were an endorse­ment for Pres­i­dent Joe Biden ahead of the 2024 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, which he denied and said it was sim­ply “flat-out how I view the for­mer p …