OAN Staff Abril Elfi
10:01 AM – Tuesday, August 13, 2024
The United Auto Workers (UAW) has filed federal labor charges against former President Donald Trump and Elon Musk alleging they attempted to “intimidate and threaten” workers during their interview.
On Tuesday, the UAW filed the charges following an interview on X between Trump and Musk.
“I mean, I look at what you do,” Trump told Musk. “You walk in, you say, ‘You want to quit?’ They go on strike, I won’t mention the name of the company, but they go on strike, and you say, ‘That’s OK, you’re all gone. You’re all gone. So, every one of you is gone.’”
The UAW argued that federal law protects workers who go on strike and it is illegal to threaten to fire them.
“When we say Donald Trump is a scab, this is what we mean. When we say Trump stands against everything our union stands for, this is what we mean,” UAW President Shawn Fain said.
Following claims of unfair labor practices, Musk’s SpaceX has directly contested the National Labor Relations Board’s constitutionality, a move that experts warned could seriously impair the organization tasked with looking into claims made by workers, unions, and employers.
“Donald Trump will always side against workers standing up for themselves, and he will always side with billionaires like Elon Musk, who is contributing $45 million a month to a Super PAC to get him elected,” Fain said. “Both Trump and Musk want working class people to sit down and shut up, and they laugh about it openly. It’s disgusting, illegal, and totally predictable from these two clowns.”
The UAW has previously said that Vice President Kamala Harris would deliver better results for unions than Trump.
“The record is clear. Donald Trump is all talk, but Kamala Harris has delivered for autoworkers,” Fain said in a video posted Monday by the UAW.
Following the video’s release, Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt called Fain “a puppet for the Democrat Party who is sadly not serving the millions of hardworking union laborers across the country who are supporting President Trump because they know he will protect their jobs and put them first.”
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