This set of photos shows Elon Musk (left) and Donald Trump (right).
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this auto workers union Federal labor charges filed against former president with National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday Donald Trump and billionaires Musk Publicly praise the practice of firing employees who threaten to strike.
“I see what you did,” Trump told Musk during his speech. two hours interview X Monday night.
“You walk in, you say, ‘Do you want to quit?’ and they go on strike,” Trump said of the electric car maker’s chief executive, Musk. Tesla and Space Exploration Technologies Corporation. Musk also owns X (formerly Twitter).
“I won’t mention the names of the companies, but they go on strike and you say, ‘It doesn’t matter, you’re all gone. You’re all gone. So, every one of you is gone,'” Trump said.
Trump points to destruction in 2022 twitter Musk took over the social media business and renamed it employees after X.
This is It is illegal to fire workers They threatened to strike because right to strike Protected by federal labor laws.
“When we say Donald Trump is a scab, this is what we mean,” UAW president Sean Finn said in a statement Tuesday about the new charges. “This is what we mean when we say Trump is against everything our union stands for.”
Neither the Trump campaign nor Musk responded to CNBC’s request for comment on the UAW action.
UAW President Shawn Fain presides over the 2023 Special Election Collective Bargaining Convention in Detroit, Michigan, USA on March 27, 2023.
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Trump’s praise for union-busting is noteworthy as the Republican presidential nominee is currently courting the support of organized labor in a tight race for vice president Kamala Harris.
The UAW, which represents more than 400,000 auto workers, has endorsed Harris. But another major U.S. union truck driverhas not yet made an endorsement.
A spokesman for the Teamsters union did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Trump’s support for union-busting.
Teamsters Association President Sean O’Brien speaks at the convention in July republican national convention.
His presence was intended to highlight that any candidate who pledges to stand up for workers’ interests can still command strong political support from unions.
“Companies are firing workers who try to unionize and hiding behind ineffective laws designed to protect working people, but these laws are rigged to benefit corporations,” O’Brien told the Republican National Committee in Milwaukee. ”
“This is economic terrorism at its best,” O’Brien said.
Musk is no stranger to labor struggles. Tesla has clashed with union supporters for years, and Tesla workers remain union-less.
In 2021, the NLRB found Tesla The dismissal of a union activist was a breach of labor law.
After Musk, the board made the same discovery wrote on twitter In 2018, “Nothing is stopping the Tesla team at our auto plants from voting union. They can do so if they want. But why pay union dues and give up stock options for nothing?”
SpaceX has also been accused by the U.S. Labor Commission of illegally firing eight employees, this time in retaliation for an internal letter criticizing Musk and his public behavior.
In response, SpaceX filed a lawsuit claiming that the NLRB’s powers and administrative procedures were unconstitutional.
This is a developing story, please check back for updates.
