The United Auto Workers union has filed an unfair labor practice complaint against former President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk, arguing that the two men illegally intimidated workers in a Spaces conversation on X.
At one point in their conversation, Trump and Musk were talking about workers who go on strike. Trump said if workers “go on strike, and you say ‘that’s okay, you’re all gone. You’re all gone.’ So everyone is gone.”
According to federal law, a company can not fire employees that are on strike. The UAW filed its unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board.
In a statement Tuesday, the UAW said the complaint centered on dismissive comments made by Trump on the platform, which was formally known as Twitter, about striking workers. The union argued that during his conversation with Musk, Trump suggested that employers could fire workers for going on strike.
“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 in a news release.
The UAW has endorsed Kamala Harris for president, drawing the ire of non-union auto workers in Michigan.
Flashback: Michigan auto workers blast the United Auto Workers for endorsing Kamala.
“To endorse Kamala Harris is sheer lunacy.”pic.twitter.com/fsNrpdnYnK
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) August 13, 2024
While campaigning for Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, UAW President Shawn Fain castigated Donald Trump for his connections to billionaire Elon Musk.
“For months, Donald Trump has gone around trashing our state, trashing our industry, trashing the American autoworker, saying he was against electric vehicles. And then something happened,” Fain said on Wednesday.
“We saw Elon Musk announce he was going to give Donald Trump $45 million dollars a month. And all of a sudden, guess what, Trump changed his tune,” he added, while calling Trump a “sellout.”
Following the assassination attempt against Trump in July, Elon Musk announced that he was publicly supporting Trump. The Wall Street Journal reported that Musk had pledged up to $45 million per month to back Trump, although both Musk and Trump subsequently denied that report was accurate.
In his Spaces with Donald Trump on Monday, Elon Musk explained why he was supporting Trump.
“America is at a fork in the road… and you are the path to prosperity. Kamala is the opposite,” Musk said.
The Taylor law should be passed all over the country. It was put into effect in 1967 when Sanitation workers went on strike in NYC. For every day an employee strikes they are fined 2 days pay. Also need to pass the Janus law for all workers. It was passed in 2018 giving civil servants the option of joining a union. I am a retired civil servant and worked per diem for 8 months. I had to pay union dues and got none of the benefits that permanent employees received such as dental and vision ins. even though I paid the same amount as everyone else. This is wrong. Also I have never met anyone in the union who actually cared for any employees.
Good Grief!!!