by Peter Navarro at Peter Navaro’s Taking Back Trump’s America
Rank and file, blue-collar manufacturing workers love Donald John Trump. Yet, their union leaders consistently have failed to endorse him. This paradox has recently been on display as 2024 Candidate Trump has sparred with United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain over the UAW’s Joe Biden endorsement.
Trump is absolutely right Fain is a “dope.” As I analyzed in an earlier column (UAW suicide pact with Detroit Three will mean higher costs, lower profits, overseas manufacturing), Fain’s pyrrhic “victory” in the recent UAW-Big Three negotiations is merely a short term “triumph” that effectively institutionalizes the offshoring of battery production and other key parts of the electric vehicle supply chain to Communist China.
I’m reminded here of similar deals United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis cut in the 1950s. While Lewis won higher wages and benefits for existing UMW members, Lewis’ devastating concessions on mine mechanization would forever shrink UMW membership by more than half, crippling the union forever.
The question now is whether the leaders of other major unions like the Teamsters and Steelworkers follow Fain’s UAW and kiss the Biden ring – despite massive rank and file support for Trump? This is no small question; rank and file union members swung the vote for Trump in 2016 in the battlegrounds of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania – and thereby paved the way for his stunning Blue Wall victory over Hillary Clinton.
Here’s the buried lead:…
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