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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 41 points 5 months ago (10 children)

This is literally the best you'll get if communists aren't a part of unions. Join or build a union and help lead the workers forward.

[–] Dimmer06@hexbear.net 36 points 5 months ago (5 children)

What's funny is that UAW has lots of communists (and even worse, Communists) in it and probably one of the most storied histories of radical labor organizing in the US. The union is just dominated by a reactionary old guard and is thoroughly undemocratic and corrupt. Shawn Fain was effectively the compromise candidate imposed on them by the DoL and was only elected by a tiny portion of the membership.

[–] TotalBrownout@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Most (all?) unions currently have in their constitution a clause where all members must attest that they are not a communist. Openly endorsing communism gets you kicked out. Interestingly enough, this also applies to fascism...

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

Openly endorsing communism gets you kicked out. Interestingly enough, this also applies to fascism...

What is this? The Iron Front?

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