UAW President Shawn Fain was a guest on Face the Nation and was asked about everything from Donald Trump signing an executive order to eliminate unions that represent thousands of workers to the tariffs that are in today’s headlines. You can watch the interview here. You can read the transcript here.
MAJOR GARRETT: Shawn, your membership makes you powerful, so you associate with presidents. From your perspective, what’s more valuable to your membership, a president who walks a picket line or imposes tariffs?
SHAWN FAIN: I mean, it’s- it’s- it’s both. I mean, a president- ultimately, it’s a president that supports organized labor and supports good working conditions and good safe jobs and good union contracts, and so that’s the big concern right now. I mean, you know, while we applaud the shift with tariffs here under this administration, again, it’s deplorable what happened last night with the stroke of a marker, you know, stripping away bargaining- stripping away contractual rights for hundreds of thousands of union workers, attacking the free speech of union workers. So, you know, and we can’t stand for that.
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