{"id":28771,"date":"2023-09-28T12:42:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T19:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=28771"},"modified":"2023-09-28T12:42:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T19:42:28","slug":"he-serves-the-billionaire-class-uaw-president-says-he-wont-meet-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/09\/28\/he-serves-the-billionaire-class-uaw-president-says-he-wont-meet-with-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"‘He Serves the Billionaire Class’: UAW President Says He Won’t Meet With Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain addresses striking autoworkers at a General Motors Service Parts Operations plant in Belleville, Michigan on September 26, 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo: Jim Watson\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“All you have to do is look at his track record,” said United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain. “His track record speaks for itself.”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

JAKE JOHNSON<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sep 27, 2023 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain said Tuesday that he will not be meeting with Donald Trump when the former president visits Michigan, pointing to his long history<\/a> of anti-worker rhetoric and policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I see no point in meeting with him because I don’t think the man has any bit of care about what our workers stand for, what the working class stands for,” Fain said<\/a> in a CNN<\/em> appearance. “He serves the billionaire class, and that’s what’s wrong with this country.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fain’s remarks came hours before Trump’s scheduled address<\/a> Wednesday night at Drake Enterprises, a nonunion auto parts manufacturer in Clinton Township, Michigan. A national UAW spokesperson told<\/a>HuffPost<\/em> that the union\u2014which is nearly two weeks into its strikes against the Big Three U.S. automakers\u2014doesn’t represent any workers at Drake Enterprises, but the facility “could be home to other unions.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his CNN<\/em> interview, Fain said he finds it a “pathetic irony” that Trump\u2014who has repeatedly bashed the UAW’s leadership<\/a>\u2014is holding a purportedly pro-worker<\/a> event at a nonunion business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“All you have to do is look at his track record,” said Fain. “His track record speaks for itself. In 2008 during the Great Recession, he blamed UAW members. He blamed our contracts for everything that was wrong with these companies. That’s a complete lie. In 2015 when he was running for president, he talked about doing a rotation, taking all these good-paying jobs in the Midwest and moving them somewhere in the South where people work for less money, and then to make people beg for their jobs back at lower wages.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“And the ultimate show of how much he cares about our workers was in 2019 when he was the president of the United States,” Fain continued. “Where was he then? GM\u2014our workers at GM were on strike for 60 days. For two months, they were out there on the picket lines. I didn’t see him hold a rally. I didn’t see him stand up at the picket line. And I sure as hell didn’t hear him comment about it. He’s missing in action.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN\u2019s @WolfBlitzer<\/a> talks to United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain about former President Donald Trump\u2019s planned trip to Michigan and if he would be willing to meet with Trump. Hear his response on @CNNSitRoom<\/a>. pic.twitter.com\/SHPVRsu8L2<\/a><\/p>— CNN (@CNN) September 26, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>