Trump Rages at UAW President After Biden Endorsement. Trump claimed that Biden’s support for electric vehicles would destroy the American auto industry. “Shawn Fain doesn’t understand this or have a clue. Get rid of this dope & vote for DJT. I will bring the Automobile Industry back to our Country.”
by mafco
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Hmm. EV’s need people to manufacture them just like fossil fuel cars. The psycho is clueless.
Affordable battery cars would have been available long ago if there were not so much inertia from governments and greed of industrialists.
Will…?
No need to speculate on what the guy will do, he was already in office for 4 years.
What’d he do for Union workers when he was previously in office?
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>During Trump’s term, the NLRB members he appointed made it more difficult for unions to win representation at nonunion workplaces, extending the time between when a union files for representation to when an election is held, and thus granting management more time to campaign against the union with its employees.
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>The Biden NLRB has rolled back those rules after they were struck down in court, and it is moving to make it easier for a union to organize.
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>The Trump Supreme Court also issued a devasting ruling against public sector unions, which represent almost as many union members as found at private businesses. The 2018 decision, with Justice Neil Gorsuch, a Trump appointee, providing the deciding fifth vote, makes it easier for government employees nationwide to not pay union dues even if their workplace is unionized.
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>Trump was famous for making promises that he would stop businesses from moving operations out of the country or shutting them down. Among his most vocal promises was that he would stop GM from closing the massive assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio.
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>In a 2017 speech in nearby Youngstown, he promised residents that manufacturing jobs would be returning to the region, telling the crowd: “Don’t move. Don’t sell your house.”
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>But two years later GM closed the plant, despite Trump’s calls to GM CEO Mary Barra and attacks on the company’s closure plans. The company that bought the plant with plans to to eventually hire thousands of workers, Lordstown Motors, produced more losses than pickup trucks, and has already filed for bankruptcy and halted operations.
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>Trump promised he would impose steep tariffs on vehicles coming from Mexico, a promise he is making again now on the campaign trail. But his 2020 update of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which has long been deeply unpopular with many blue collar workers, imposed no such tariffs on vehicles coming from Mexico, and has done little to change the flow of vehicles across US borders.
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>While Trump says he created auto jobs and that the Biden administration is destroying them, Michigan lost 1,900 auto manufacturing jobs, or 4% of the total, between February 2017, just after Trump took office in through February 2020, just before the start of the pandemic, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The state gained 1,800 auto jobs from February 2021, Biden’s first month in office, through February of this year.
Fool me once, Shame on you. Fool me twice, Shame on me.
Got our rear ends kicked by foreign automakers for decades with little hope of overtaking them. Finally found a way to surpass them with EV. This idiot wants us go back to getting our butts kicked. SMH.
He’s such an idiot it’s mind-boggling. Not only will EVs definitely not “destroy the American auto industry” but they represent one of the greatest economic opportunities of this century. Every country on the planet is working to convert their vehicle fleets to non-polluting EVs in the next decade or two.
President Biden recognizes that and has taken massive steps to bring EV and battery manufacturing back to the US. China recognized it decades ago and has been generously supporting its domestic industry. Trump wants the US to concede and hand over the global auto industry to China. Putin would be proud of his little bitch.
# [How Inflation Reduction Act Electric Vehicle Incentives Are Driving a U.S. Manufacturing Renaissance](https://www.americanprogress.org/article/how-inflation-reduction-act-electric-vehicle-incentives-are-driving-a-u-s-manufacturing-renaissance/)
>More than a dozen new incentives enacted through the Inflation Reduction Act, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and the CHIPS and Science Act have sent investments in EV manufacturing skyrocketing, resulting in more than 84,000 announced jobs in just the first year of implementation.
Is the automobile industry the new “coal” for 2024?
Clean autos? Clean internal combustion engines!!!
Where is the auto industry now? Where is he bringing it back from?
Next up, Trump will bring back buggywhips and horse-drawn carriages, “Vote for me so that red-blooded American purebred horses can get good-paying jobs again!”