BPR:
X owner Elon Musk isn’t sweating the latest attack from the left after he and former President Donald Trump angered the United Auto Workers union.
On Tuesday, the union filed federal labor charges with the National Labor Relations Board because Musk and Trump celebrated the idea of firing employees who threatened to strike. The moment happened during the two-hour X interview between the presidential candidate and platform owner, which caused quite a stir among the left and even across the pond.
“I look at what you do,” Trump said. “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 okay, you’re all gone. You’re all gone. So, every one of you is gone,’” the former president continued, referring to Musk’s gutting of X, then Twitter, after he purchased the company in 2022.
UAW President Shawn Fain was offended by the very thought, and launched the charges with a tirade against “scab” Trump.
“When we say Donald Trump is a scab, this is what we mean,” he said. “When we say Trump stands against everything our union stands for, this is what we mean.”
It’s worth noting that the right to strike is protected by federal labor laws, so the odds of any scenario going the way the former president described is slim, as employees legally cannot be fired over a strike threat.
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I hope Shawn Fain (if that’s his real name) gets angrier and angrier and pops an artery, preferably his aorta. Sorry, but he’s a Bad Man.
**** me, ******
If your company has an agreement with a union and they go on strike, then you have to obey the relevant laws. You signed an agreement.
If the workers vote to unionize, but you don’t sign an agreement with their union, there is no difference from them not being unionized. You can terminate any employee, with sufficient cause (typically a bad employee or elimination of the position).
Trump would not have a union agreement, so there is no problem with him firing someone in that case.
Don’t wait until they threaten to strike. Just fire 90% of the federal bureaucracy as a good start and then work on the remaining 10%.
“When we say Trump stands against everything our union stands for, this is what we mean.”
I already will vote for Trump, you don’t need to sell me on him.
“We believe in the collective”—Kamala Harris
Collectivists gonna collect. Your dues and your votes. Fools.
So, the UAW mob boss has been bought off. Amazing how they get all indignant over hypotheticals. As pointed out by LCD @ 9:12a.m. above, it will be about the contracts. DJT is enough of a businessman to follow those, or get them changed.
The judicial system needs an overhaul. People can’t just sue because of talk.
Oooooo, he hurt my fweelins!
If that is the new normal, we all need to sue the Democrat party into bankruptcy for all their totalitarian talk and how they make us feel!
All of the jobs are going to illegals nowadays, so if you want to strike for some reason Juan will take your job for less money and you’ll be looking for work, likely for considerably less than you’re making now. And don’t forget, on Biden’s first day he shut down the XL Pipeline and threw tens of thousands of union people out of work while he OKd the Russian pipeline.Learn who your friends really are and be careful what you wish for.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/anti-trump-pollster-frank-luntz-stuns-cnn-panel/
Shawn Fain is a mouth breathing idiot.
Even a near commie like FDR was adamantly OPPOSED to the concept of government unions. His opposition was based on the fact that every side in the negotiation was going to be government, not the people (supposed employers).
“The last two UAW presidents went to prison for bribery & corruption and, based on recent news, it looks like this guy will join them!” musk wrote.
I hear the rank and file UAW members don’t agree with their leadership and do support Trump.
That’s what’s keeping me from calling anyone who buys a UAW-built car an Anti-American.
I have been told twice during my working life that “your services are no longer required.” Both times was in the 3 month probation period. I was a square peg in a round hole. Both companies ended up going bankrupt within the year, so there was that good side. Being fired was the best thing which happened to me each time.
“When we say scab”.
Any one remember the Militant UMWA UNION striking their way to shutting down many Coal Mines??
Most of the UMWA rank and file were out of a well paid Coal miner Job.
New trucks, boats, cars and homes were immediately up for sale locally.
The militant unemployed UMWA Coal miners BECAME SCABS in other jobs as non-Union plumbers, Carpenters, concrete workers and the other manual skills.
Scabs are typically ones who used to be Union members who lost their jobs while their Union Leadership makes $Hundreds of Thousands a year negotiating terms shutting down major industries.
Go Socialist Unions, Go Broke.
Back in 1966, workers at the New York Herald Tribune went on strike. They hoy everything they wanted. Then the New York Heral Tribune shut their doors.
There is the chain off coffee shops whose employees recently voted to unionize. The coffee shops closed.
Are these union people aware of how many cars are built in Mexico?
Shawn Fain was an electrician at an automotive plant. He didn’t work the assembly line. He worked on the assembly line if there was an electrical problem. My friend had the same job and he mostly sat around until there arouse an electrical problem.
They had their own room in the shop with television, fridges, microwaves, toaster ovens where they played cards, video games whatever. There biggest work took place when retooling shutdowns happened.
There was a time when unions were needed in America. Now is not the time. All the benefits unions fought for, for the safety and security of its members, have since been addressed by acts of law that have been legislated for all American workers. The rest is about money and how much the union bosses can squeeze out their members and how much they can put to work in lobbying for their own continued existence.
They lost me when they helped Obama f*** up my families healthcare. Now reinforce that with the fact that not a single car made in Detroit compares to Subaru, Toyota or Honda. Well maybe Buick.
The dayshift machinist where I worked was the union rep. He was always off at some “meeting” leaving me on swing shift to do all the work. And he was a lousy machinist. Guess what color he was.
@Cliffthe pawn:
Especially the Buick Envision.
(That’s a joke. Envisions are all made in the GM-SAIC Jinqiao Plant, Shanghai, China., and some exported to the U.S. and elsewhere.)
unions exist to provide negro-grifter jobs & shovel $$$ to pedocrat politicians
Just search “cars built by the UAW” and you can pull up all the vehicles they build, directly from the UAW site.
Don’t buy these cars anymore.
yeah, i cannot see the iuoe did me any favors. its was always just a waste of time. in the end iuoe always side with management. im talking state willfully violating safety regulations with worker injuries and infrastructure loss. union is useless.
similarly, here in norcal pge has been functioning for years with a breakdown maintenance program to enhance its share price. the public now has the responsibility to fund and rebuild the broken down grid (rate increase) along with paying higher wildfire insurance premiums, not to mention the loss of life and property due to wildfire cause by electrical infrastructure failing due to age.
im sure years ago when pge management proposed breakdown maintenance program. engineers, operators and maintenance dug their heels with no union support. management got their way back then and now we have an aged failing electrical grid.
i know the state facilities have taken up the same breakdown maintenance programs. feel sorry for the public living downstream of all dams. maybe that is why the county built all the welfare apartments next to the river below the dam. nah, they want to promote welfare and give river front housing.
One summer a relative of mine worked in a union plant back East in union country in the 70’s. Some guy backed the little electric cart into a wall and messed up the drywall, somewhat near the light switch. First the carpenter supervisor inspected it. “Yep, gonna need an electrician, there’s power involved”. Then came the electrician super. “Yep, we need to shut off the electricity, I’ll get one on my guys on it”. Does he flip the circuit breaker himself or use the radio to summon someone? No, he walks back to the electrician’s hangout room to get a subordinate to go flip the circuit breaker. This dude then walks back to the hangout. The super then walk out to verify that the juice is off. Of course, his inspection has to occur in conjunction with the carpenter super, and of course, it takes a couple of hours for their schedules to coincide. After the inspection, the carpenter super walks to get the dude who is actually going to do the work. All the activities described occurred via walking and not using the radio. The two carpenters inspect the work and develop a plan of action. The dude fixes it, albeit at a snail’s pace. The the super reinspects it and deems the work satisfactory. The electrical super had to come (via foot) to make sure the work was safe to turn on the power. Then he has to go get the guy to turn on the power, then both supers have to inspect to make sure everything is OK. Now it takes two guys to paint the repair. Four days later and five guys it gets fixed. A handyman type could have done the whole thing in an afternoon, and after letting dry over night, repaint the next morning.