The United Auto Workers (UAW) union announced on Tuesday that former President Trump and Elon Musk “Threatening and intimidating” Workers during an interview on social platform X on Monday night.
“I mean, I look at what you guys are doing,” Trump told Musk. “You guys come into a company and say, ‘Do you want to quit?’ They start a strike. I won’t say the names of the companies, but they start a strike. And you say, ‘All right, you’re all gone. You’re all gone. So you’re all gone.'”
The UAW argued that federal law protects striking workers from dismissal and that threatening to fire them is illegal.
“That’s what we’re saying when we say Donald Trump is a strikebreaker. That’s what we’re saying when we say Trump goes against the principles of the union,” UAW President Sean Fain said.
President Trump has been at loggerheads with Fain and the UAW, who endorsed Vice President Harris last month for the upcoming presidential election.
In the wake of the unfair labor practice allegations, Musk’s SpaceX directly challenged the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board, a move that experts warned could hobble the agency responsible for investigating allegations made by employees, unions and employers.
“Donald Trump will always be against working people standing up for themselves and will side with billionaires like Elon Musk, who are donating $45 million a month to super PACs to get him elected,” Fain said.
“Both Trump and Musk want working class people to sit back and shut up while they openly laugh at it. The behavior of these two clowns is disgusting, illegal and completely expected.”
The AFL-CIO, a coalition of 60 national and international labor unions, Original Post He criticized the conversation on X, saying, “Scavs know scavs.”
Neither the Trump campaign nor a spokesperson for Musk’s company, X, immediately responded to requests for comment.
The UAW has been a strong critic of President Trump and has sought to sharply contrast Ms Harris with the former president, arguing that she would do the union a better job than President Trump.
“The record is clear: Donald Trump is all talk, but Kamala Harris has delivered results for autoworkers,” Fain said in a video posted by the UAW on Monday.
After the video was released, Trump campaign spokeswoman Carolyn Leavitt called Fain “a puppet of the Democratic Party who, unfortunately, is not serving the millions of hardworking union members across the country who support President Trump because they know he will protect their jobs and put them first.”
The Trump campaign is vying for the support of labor unions ahead of the November election, including inviting Teamsters Chairman Sean O’Brien to speak at the Republican National Convention last month. The Teamsters have not yet endorsed a presidential candidate.
