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‘Donald Trump is a scab,’ says UAW president Shawn Fain
The Hill ^ | 01/24/2024 | LAUREN IRWIN

Posted on 01/24/2024 1:50:55 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain slammed former President Trump in a Wednesday speech announcing the union’s endorsement of President Biden, calling the Republican front-runner “a scab.”

“Donald Trump is a scab,” Fain said, prompting applause from union members. “Donald Trump is a billionaire and that is who he represents. If Donald Trump ever worked in an auto plant, he wouldn’t be a UAW member, he would be a company man trying to squeeze the American worker.”

“Donald Trump stands against everything we stand for as a union, as a society,” Fain continued. “When you go back to our core issues, wages, retirement, health care and our time, that’s what this election is about.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; donatefreerepublic; fain; jimknows; scab; tds; trump; uaw; unionthugs
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Another weak chinned prog.


41 posted on 01/24/2024 2:31:05 PM PST by TexasM1A (GLASS HAMAS)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

feh...


42 posted on 01/24/2024 2:31:05 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Seruzawa

Scab: a goon employed by the union who doesn’t do the work the union supposedly represents.

(yeah, I know ...)


43 posted on 01/24/2024 2:32:49 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
“Donald Trump stands against everything we stand for as a union, as a society,” Fain continued.

What a joke. Trump worked to bring back the manufacturing jobs that were lost after China was given MFN. Biden was one of those who voted for MFN for China.

44 posted on 01/24/2024 2:41:11 PM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I buy non-union built cars. F Government Motors and F the UAW.


45 posted on 01/24/2024 2:44:58 PM PST by wetgundog
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ford operates at a structural loss due to union benefits. One day it’ll run out of money.


46 posted on 01/24/2024 2:47:42 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In my younger years-—I HAD to join a union to have the job.

UAW was one of those unions...

I HATE UNIONS & ALL THEY STAND FOR

THEY ARE PARASITES ON AN UNWILLING HOST.


47 posted on 01/24/2024 2:52:14 PM PST by ridesthemiles (uire)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
Fain holds no sway over his members

And the membership exercises no sway over union leadership. A relationship of convenience.

48 posted on 01/24/2024 2:58:57 PM PST by Bernard (We honor veterans who fought to keep this country from turning into what it now is. --Argus Hamilton)
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To: Macoozie

No, buy a Toyota made in Kentucky with NO UAW.


49 posted on 01/24/2024 3:06:34 PM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s amusing how the hill can comment on ANYTHING NEGATIVE SAID ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP.

LEFT WING RAG.


50 posted on 01/24/2024 3:06:57 PM PST by Pearfect
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To: Bernard

Heh, you’ve been in a union too.


51 posted on 01/24/2024 3:07:39 PM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The auto industry is in trouble. Auto dealers have over a hundred days worth of vehicles on their lots and storage yard and they are refusing to take more from the manufacturer.

I was under the impression that auto dealers had vehicle on consignment but I was wrong. They have to pay the manufacture for the vehicles (a small percentage on the suggested retail price). The longer the vehicles go unsold the more the dealer has to pay eventually losing out on any profit.

Currently autos and trunks are too expensive for the average customer even with payments stretched out to five years!

Once again Detroit has mis-read what customers want (and it is not a $70,000 vehicle that is underwater the day it is driven off the lot.

So how long can dealers carry the auto manufactures before they go bankrupt? How long can manufactures stay alive if there are fewer dealers?

Unions did not kill the auto industry, short sighted management that believe the good times would never end killed the auto industry.


52 posted on 01/24/2024 3:07:52 PM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Fain is a commie.


53 posted on 01/24/2024 3:08:50 PM PST by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender! Stand for Trump or Kneel for Leftists!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
“‘Donald Trump is a scab,’ says UAW president Shawn Fain”

After Trump is re-elected this DUMBA$$ is going to REGRET having said that!

54 posted on 01/24/2024 3:43:12 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump will keep a lot more jobs in USA than the D’s — and working people understand this.

These union bosses are selling out their members’ most essential interests


55 posted on 01/24/2024 4:00:14 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Donald Trump is a scab”

I guess they want him to join the Presidential Union (PU) Local #1?


56 posted on 01/24/2024 4:02:18 PM PST by beef (The pendulum will not swing back. It will snap back. Hard.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Non-unionized car makers:

Tesla
Rivian
Lucid
BMW
Honda
Hyundai
Mazda
Mercedes
Nissan
Subaru
Toyota
Volkswagen
Volvo.


57 posted on 01/24/2024 4:06:04 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump should response that Shawn Fain is a scab illegal alien supporter.


58 posted on 01/24/2024 4:07:35 PM PST by sausageseller (If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage. M, Thatcher)
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To: rlmorel

Plenty of fine cars made in the US by non-union workers. Most of the foreign makes are built down South in the right to work states.


59 posted on 01/24/2024 4:23:21 PM PST by oldskoolwargamer2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

UAW President Shawn Fain is a communist.


60 posted on 01/24/2024 4:31:07 PM PST by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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