UAW President Tells Trump He Isn’t Welcome on Picket Lines

Fain’s statement is an escalation of a growing battle with President Trump, who is trying to align himself with striking union members.

AP/Paul Sancya, file
The United Auto Workers president, Shawn Fain, outside the General Motors plant at Hamtramck, Michigan, July 12, 2023. AP/Paul Sancya, file

The United Auto Workers president, Shawn Fain, is telling President Trump to stay out of the union’s strike, saying after reports surfaced that the former president plans to hold an event in Michigan featuring UAW members that he doesn’t know “what it is like to live paycheck to paycheck.”

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