UAW President Shawn Fain took a shot at former President Donald Trump this week in an emailed statement, saying that we shouldn’t be electing “billionaires and millionaires.”
Fain’s statement came following the news that Trump would skip the second GOP debate to instead visit striking auto workers in Michigan.
“Every fiber of our union is being poured into fighting the billionaire class and an economy that enriches people like Donald Trump at the expense of workers,” Fain said in a statement. “We can’t keep electing billionaires and millionaires that don’t have any understanding what it is like to live paycheck to paycheck and struggle to get by and expecting them to solve the problems of the working class.”
While speaking with NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Trump shared some not-so-nice words about Fain, saying he was failing as the UAW president.
“The auto workers are being sold down the river by their leadership, and their leadership should endorse Trump,” he said.
While union members have been the backbone of the Democratic voting base for some time, recent polls from CNN and AFL-CIO have found shifting support among union members, with many now backing Republicans instead.
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