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Peter Navarro’s Taking Back Trump’s America

America’s Anti-Trump Labor Bosses Declare War on Their Own Rank and File

Peter Navarro’s Taking Back Trump’s America

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Government, News, News:politics, Politics, Business News

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🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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GET THE TRANSCRIPT AND A WHOLE LOT MORE AT HTTP://PETERNAVARRO.SUBSTACK.COM America’s Anti-Trump Labor Bosses Declare War on Their Own Rank and File 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. LISTEN NOW FOR THE REST OF THE STORY! AND PLEASE WRITE A REVIEW

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America's anti-Trump labor bosses declare war on their own rank and file.

0:06.0

Rank and file blue-collar manufacturing workers love Donald John Trump,

0:12.0

yet their union leaders consistently have failed to endorse him.

0:15.7

This paradox has recently been on display his 2024 candidate Trump has barred with

0:22.1

the United Auto Workers President Sean Fain over the

0:25.8

UAW's Joe Biden endorsement. Trump is absolutely right. Fain is a, as I analyzed in an earlier column entitled UAW Suicide Pack with Detroit

0:38.2

3 will mean higher costs, lower profits overseas manufacturing. feigns Pyrrhic victory in the recent UAW

0:46.8

big three negotiations is merely a short-term triumph that effectively institutionalizes the offshoring of battery production and

0:55.0

other key parts of the electric vehicle supply chain to Communist China.

1:00.4

I'm reminded here of similar deals, United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis cut in the 1950s.

1:07.0

While Lewis won higher wages and benefits for existing UMW members, Lewis's devastating concessions on mine mechanization would

1:16.2

forever shrink UMW membership by more than half crippling the union forever. The question now is whether the leaders of other

1:24.8

major unions like the teamsters and steel workers will follow Faines UAW and

1:30.6

kiss the Biden ring despite massive Rankin file support for Trump.

1:36.0

This is no small question.

1:38.0

Rankin file union members swung the vote for Trump in 2016

1:42.0

in the battlegrounds of Michigan, Wisconsin, and

1:46.0

thereby paved the way for Trump's stunning blue wall victory over Hillary Clinton.

1:51.6

Here's the buried lead. It doesn't really matter who the

1:55.4

Union bosses endorse. Trump will still command a lion's share of a rank-and-file that

2:01.4

has little regard for these big labor apparatchics.

2:05.8

That's why Trump has exposed fame for the snarling dope thing is.

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