{"id":1025855,"date":"2023-09-21T20:37:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T20:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1025855"},"modified":"2024-05-23T19:58:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T19:58:58","slug":"icymi-associated-press-trump-says-he-always-had-autoworkers-backs-union-leaders-say-his-first-term-record-shows-otherwise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-associated-press-trump-says-he-always-had-autoworkers-backs-union-leaders-say-his-first-term-record-shows-otherwise\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Associated Press: Trump says he always had autoworkers\u2019 backs. Union leaders say his first-term record shows otherwise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Key Point:<\/strong><em> \u201c\u2018Just look who Trump put in the courts,\u2019 said Dave Green, the UAW regional director for Ohio and Indiana. \u2018Look at his record with the labor relations board. He did nothing to support organized labor except lip service.\u2026\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/labor-union-auto-workers-trump-strike-dfcb805fd4e749b13aaf827e1463da73\"><strong>\u00a0Associated Press<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Trump says he always had autoworkers\u2019 backs. Union leaders say his first-term record shows otherwise<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[JOEY CAPPELLETTI AND MICHELLE L. PRICE, 9\/21\/23]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>LANSING, Mich. (AP) \u2014 When former President Donald Trump visits Detroit next week, he\u2019ll be looking to blunt criticisms from a <strong>United Auto Workers union leadership that has said a second term for him would be a \u201cdisaster\u201d for workers.<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>But union leaders say Trump\u2019s record in the White House speaks for itself. Union leaders have said his first term was far from worker-friendly, citing unfavorable rulings from the nation\u2019s top labor board and the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as unfulfilled promises of automotive jobs.<strong> <\/strong>While the United Auto Workers union has withheld an endorsement in the 2024 presidential race, its leadership has repeatedly rebuffed Trump.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>\u201cJust look who Trump put in the courts,\u201d<\/strong> said Dave Green, the UAW regional director for Ohio and Indiana. \u201cLook at his record with the labor relations board. He did nothing to support organized labor except lip service.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The National Labor Relations Board, which enforces the country\u2019s labor laws and oversees union elections, came under Republican control during the Trump administration for the first time since 2007. The board reversed several key Obama-era rulings that made it easier for small unions to organize, strengthened the bargaining rights of franchise workers and provided protection against anti-union measures for employees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mark McManus, president of the plumbers and pipefitters union, said in a statement Tuesday that<strong> Trump \u201ctried to gut\u201d the labor relations board under his administration \u201cto undo the safeguards that protect working families.\u201d<\/strong> Michigan AFL-CIO President Ron Bieber told The Associated Press in an emailed statement that the board was stacked with \u201canti-worker appointees who trampled on collective bargaining rights.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The union leaders also point to unfavorable U.S. Supreme Court rulings under a conservative majority that grew during Trump\u2019s term. The nation\u2019s high court has dealt a number of blows to unions, most recently ruling against unionized drivers who walked off the job with their trucks full of wet cement, allowing a civil suit against them to go forward.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>\u201cIf you\u2019re appointing conservatives to the court, you\u2019re often appointing people who relate to the preference for business or property owners or shareholders, more than the preference of stakeholders like workers,\u201d<\/strong> said Peter Berg, a professor of labor relations at Michigan State University.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Republicans have long tried to position themselves as being anti-union while remaining pro-worker.<strong> The party has branded itself as being for \u201cthe working class\u201d while attacking organized labor, which has supported the Democratic Party for decades.<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Trump has used a similar tactic in an effort to separate workers from a UAW leadership that endorsed Democrat Joe Biden in 2020 and that has attacked Trump since. In a recent campaign video addressed to autoworkers, Trump encouraged them not to pay union dues and claimed union leaders have \u201cgot some deals going for themselves.\u201d Trump also claimed he would raise their wages and protect their jobs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Job growth figures in the auto industry during Trump\u2019s presidency contradict his claim that the industry thrived under his watch. <strong>The total number of auto manufacturing jobs in Michigan, which holds the most automotive jobs in the U.S., stayed even during Trump\u2019s presidency.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In Ohio, the number of <strong>auto manufacturing jobs grew by fewer than 2,000 jobs during Trump\u2019s four years in the White House.<\/strong> But Green, the UAW director, said <strong>some communities that had backed Trump in 2016 were abandoned by him. <\/strong>He pointed to Lordstown, Ohio, an area that Trump won by a significant margin in 2016 and where Green previously served as the local UAW president.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cThe guy came to my community and flat out lied to everybody,\u201d Green said last week. \u201cBanks were closing, schools were shutting down. I wrote the guy two letters, and he didn\u2019t even reply.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201c\u2018Just look who Trump put in the courts,\u2019 said Dave Green, the UAW regional director for Ohio and Indiana. \u2018Look at his record with the labor relations board. He did nothing to support organized labor except lip service.\u2026\u2019\u201d \u00a0Associated Press: Trump says he always had autoworkers\u2019 backs. 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