Posted on 03/05/2025 9:10:39 PM PST by Cronos
.."For 40 years, we’ve seen the devastating effects of so-called 'free trade' on the working class," the UAW, headed by Shawn Fain, said in a press release. "Corporations have been driving a non-stop race to the bottom by killing good blue-collar jobs in America to go exploit some poor worker in another country by paying poverty wages. Tariffs are a powerful tool in the toolbox for undoing the injustice of anti-worker trade deals."
"We are glad to see an American president take aggressive action on ending the free trade disaster that has dropped like a bomb on the working class," they added
...The UAW doesn't appear to match Schumer's sentiments, saying "corporate America" would be responsible for rising prices.
"There’s been a lot of talk of these tariffs 'disrupting' the economy," the union said. "But if corporate America chooses to price-gouge the American consumer or attack the American worker because they don’t want to pay their fair share, corporate America bears the blame for that decision."
The union also took aim at the North American Free Trade Agreement, saying the working class "suffered the pain" of the trade pact and doesn't want to face the consequences of it being undone. "We want to see corporate America, from the auto industry and beyond, recommit to the working class that makes the products and generates the profits that keep this country running."
The UAW concluded its statement saying it is working with the Trump administration to "end the free trade disaster."
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Yet the Dumbasses endorsed Heels up Harris and will dutifully endorse the next Democrat 100% guaranteed.
If they really voted for her in such large numbers, she would be president.
A handful of people say they are supporting whoever...and nobody under them gives a ####.
They vote for who they want.
I’m in favor of an internationally financially balanced motor vehicle industry, mainly by company internal bartering.
Just keep them out of the factories.
The “CAW” (formerly the UAW-Canada) is probably not happy...$50.76 Billion of annual auto/truck imports from Canada to the US...$12.69 Billion in tariff charges if they stay on for a year.
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports/canada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Auto_Workers
Update: PDJT just backed off tariffs of Canada-made vehicles for an additional 30 days:
https://www.unifor.org/news/all-news/auto-tariffs-delay-latest-extortion-tactic-trump
Glad you enjoy your massive Union wages.
Those of us not on the gravy train cannot or will not spend $85K or more on a simple pickup. You are putting yourselves out of a job. Enjoy it while you can.
The UAW are happy as this will bring more union jobs.
It shouldn’t cost more than $85K or $95K, but those are American jobs.
Not the members of course. I’m sure plenty of them did vote for Trump. I was talking about the UAW as an organization and their leadership. Heels Up Harris was never going to do for them what Trump did.
Just wanted to remind everyone that *THIS* is the primary reason most Northerners hated slavery. They didn't actually care about the slaves, they very greatly cared that slaves could threaten their wages by doing work for "free."
I’ll wait and see, but I’m impressed by this.
Even a blind squirrel finds an occasional nut. The union has done a dismal job of protecting American workers.
So, is that somehow illegitimate then or now? Should cheap slave labor always win out over free wage labor? You reveal yourself as a globalist who doesn’t care about American jobs.
In any case, it’s never only about one thing, then or now. Americans are concerned about the US falling behind, about too long supply chains, and about Uyghurs and other exploited Chinese prison labor.
Northerners then also read “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” or saw the play in the thousands and millions. They did have moral qualms about slavery. There were also concerns about whether slaveowning society was consistent with democracy, and legitimate fears that slaveowners wanted to expand, even into the Northern states.
I’m told that Chinese factory workers may have horribly controlled working conditions. We can’t do anything about that. But that doesn’t stop people here from worrying about losing their jobs. Nor should it.
I was formerly an elected union official. It always puzzled me why unions were aligned with the democrat party.
It seemed odd that a union would be willing to go on strike over the difference between a 2% or 3% raise yet support a party that wants to raise taxes by 10% and regulate your company into bankruptcy. It made no sense.
Either Trump is beating some sense into the union thugs or the dems are finally being seen for the anti labor scum that they are.
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Yup—union leadership support for illegal invaders has been mind boggling.
That has crushed wages and the unions along with it.
I think this is the most emotional response I have ever seen from you.
No, opposing free labor is not a bad thing, but it is a very different thing when you are doing it out of a pretend concern for the people being abused and exploited rather than to honestly express that you are doing it out of your own self interest.
We have been led to believe the North hated slavery because they thought it was immoral. This was true for a tiny minority of people in the North, but the vast majority hated it because of the threat it posed to paid workers.
You may not think much of this revelation, but for me it was a shock and a surprise, because this is not at all what I had been led to believe my entire life. We were doing "God's Work" in "trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored".
So to learn that our real motivation was economic, and not God's will, well that bothered me a lot. Still does.
In any case, it’s never only about one thing, then or now. Americans are concerned about the US falling behind, about too long supply chains, and about Uyghurs and other exploited Chinese prison labor.
We should make it clear that we will not engage in trade with nations that use slave labor. Or for that matter, Nation's that don't recognize a right to free speech or a right to bear arms. I'm thinking of Britain, Germany, France, Australia, etc.
Northerners then also read “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” or saw the play in the thousands and millions. They did have moral qualms about slavery.
Ginned up propaganda induced "qualms". Little different from the same stuff the liberals of today are trying to stir up against any effort to audit the Federal government or lay off any of it's employees.
According to them, the "Sky is falling!" and they are "coming for your social security!" and every other bit of nonsense they can dream up.
Northern liberals were motivated to pull the same trickery back in the 1850s too. Years ago I wanted to know how extensive abuse of slaves was, because it didn't make sense that people would constantly beat or whip their slaves, or keep them in irons all the time.
There is one famous picture of a man with a whipped back. Well "that's terrible!", I thought. But was it typical?
No it wasn't. It was a massive exaggeration for propaganda purposes, and it was designed to stir up an emotional response from people in the North mostly. I found out that an organization did this purposely, because they believed it would help their agenda. (Which it did.)
It was a deliberate manipulation of the public for political purposes. It wasn't honest, it was deceitful, but Liberals can't seem to help themselves with promoting deceitful beliefs. We see it every day in modern times.
There were also concerns about whether slaveowning society was consistent with democracy,
That decision was made in 1787. If people wanted to reject it, they had to get 3/4ths of the states to go along with it, which was absolutely not possible in 1861.
...and legitimate fears that slaveowners wanted to expand, even into the Northern states.
Couldn't grow any plantation crops in the North. I think they just wanted their "peculiar institution" recognized as legitimate in the other states. They didn't like people casting moral aspersions on them for their usage of slaves. At least that's what I imagine they thought.
The existing dichotomy between "free" states and slave states was that the "free" states looked down on people from the slave states, and the people from the slave states were made to feel like second class citizens.
Besides, there was that Article IV, "full faith and credit" clause in the US Constitution that they felt the "free" states were violating. Free states wanted to reject the laws of slave states in the manner that Canada won't extradite anyone to us who faces a death penalty.
They are trying to impose *THEIR* morality on people who don't agree with it.
And the fears that slavery would expand into the Northern states was also ginned up propaganda. It wasn't a realistic threat. Slavery was slowly waning in all the states, and it was only a matter of time before it slowly left the Southern states as well.
I’m told that Chinese factory workers may have horribly controlled working conditions. We can’t do anything about that.
We could not buy their products, especially those produced by slave labor. (If we can make a distinction.)
But that doesn’t stop people here from worrying about losing their jobs. Nor should it.
Of all people, Patrick Buchanan, when he was running for President in 1992, and 1996, came up with what appears to me to be an obvious idea.
He said conditions between American workers and Foreign workers are not the same. American companies should not have to compete on an even basis with foreign countries that do not have to adhere to American safety standards, EPA pollution standards, EEOC requirements, and a whole host of other required rules and regulations that American companies are required to follow.
He proposed raising tariffs on all products from foreign sources that didn't adhere to American standards, to create a level playing field for competition between American companies and Foreign.
Pat Buchanan is the first person of which I know thinking along these lines, until Trump came along.
Yet the unions heads all support illegals.
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