BREAKING: Major union files charges against Trump, Musk for trying to ‘intimidate’ workers

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From Reuters: The United Auto Workers Union said on Tuesday it has filed charges with the National Labor Relations Board against Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk over attempts to threaten and intimidate workers.

The action came after Musk and Trump held a two-hour conversation on social media platform X on Monday night, during which Trump complimented Musk’s ability to cut costs by saying he would not tolerate workers going on strike.

“You’re the greatest cutter,” Trump said during the conversation. “I mean, I look at what you do. You walk in, you just say: ‘You want to quit?’ They go on strike – I won’t mention the name of the company – but they go on strike. And you say: ‘That’s okay, you’re all gone.'”

Musk chuckled but did not respond to Trump’s comments, making it harder for the NLRB to find him liable for making illegal threats to workers at his companies, said Wilma Liebman, chair of the NLRB under former President Barack Obama.

The UAW has already turned the audio of Trump’s comments into an anti-Trump ad:

The UAW announced, “The UAW has filed federal labor charges against disgraced billionaires Donald Trump and Elon Musk for their illegal attempts to threaten and intimidate workers who stand up for themselves by engaging in protected concerted activity, such as strikes.”

In a press release, the union declared, “Under federal law, workers cannot be fired for going on strike, and threatening to do so is illegal under the National Labor Relations Act.”

“When we say Donald Trump is a scab, this is what we mean. When we say Trump stands against everything our union stands for, this is what we mean,” said UAW President Shawn Fain. “Donald Trump will always side against workers standing up for themselves, and he will always side with billionaires like Elon Musk, who is contributing $45 million a month to a Super PAC to get him elected. Both Trump and Musk want working class people to sit down and shut up, and they laugh about it openly. It’s disgusting, illegal, and totally predictable from these two clowns.”

Fain claimed that when GM was on strike for 40 days in 2019, “Donald Trump was nowhere to be found. Kamala Harris was on the picket line standing with workers.”

Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg pounced on the news, and claimed, “This is what Donald Trump thinks of collective bargaining.”

Political advisor Raheem Kassam pushed back, retorting, “UAW wants its members’ jobs sent to China and Mexico!”

The UAW is announcing a major push to help defeat Trump and elect Kamala Harris.

The Harris campaign is seizing the moment, claiming Trump will be bad for workers, and claiming he will stop overtime pay, cut Social Security and Medicare, raise taxes on the middle class, and more.

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