Michigan auto workers deserve “fair wages and greater stability” but their jobs could soon collapse because of a government-backed shift to electric vehicles, former President Donald Trump warned in a speech Wednesday in metro Detroit.
“Your current negotiations don’t mean as much as you think” because “in two to three years you will not have one job in this state,” Trump said in a speech aimed at striking members of the United Auto Workers union, who 13 days earlier began walking off jobs at Ford, General Motors and Stellantis. [emphasis, links added]
The Florida Republican used his roughly hour-long speech to bash Democratic President Joe Biden’s push for electric vehicles and promised to stop what he called a “transition to hell” that will force automakers to close factories and move production overseas, repeating claims Bridge Michigan previously found to be inflated. …snip…
Trump acknowledged in his speech that the UAW typically endorses Democrats, including Biden in 2020, but likened it to an “automatic reflex” that Fain should reconsider.
“There’s no reason for it, and it’s a bad habit that hasn’t worked,” Trump said before several hundred supporters at Drake Enterprises in Clinton Township, a non-unionized auto supplier that specializes in gear shift levers and transmission components for heavy trucks.
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