Elon Musk has responded to information that the United Automotive Staff (UAW) union opened federal labor costs towards him and presidential candidate Donald Trump, following an interview between the 2 this week.
Musk and Trump spoke in an X Areas name on Monday night, with the dialog masking plenty of subjects similar to labor, world politics, electrical autos (EVs), and Trump’s 2024 marketing campaign, amongst others nonetheless. On Tuesday, the UAW introduced that it filed federal labor costs towards Trump and Musk, after the presidential candidate talked about the concept of firing putting employees through the name—which might be in violation of federal labor legal guidelines.
“I imply, I take a look at what you do,” Trump mentioned through the name. “You stroll in, you say, ‘You need to give up?’ They go on strike, I received’t point out the title of the corporate, however they go on strike, and also you say, ‘That’s OK, you’re all gone. You’re all gone. So, each one in every of you is gone.’”
Beneath the Nationwide Labor Relations Act, employees can’t be fired for happening strike, as highlighted within the Tuesday submitting.
In response to the information, Musk alluded to current investigations into UAW President Shawn Fain, noting that the earlier presidents of the union had been really discovered responsible of bribery and corruption.
The final two UAW presidents went to jail for bribery & corruption and, based mostly on current information, it seems to be like this man will be a part of them!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 13, 2024
Fain is at the moment being investigated by an impartial monitor after the union’s secretary-treasurer claimed that he had used retaliation and intimidation ways when sure expenditures weren’t authorised for his workplace. Musk and Fain have additionally had a contentious historical past on-line over the previous few years, with the 2 most just lately arguing over Musk’s alleged $45 million a month donations to a Tremendous PAC supporting Trump, which Musk has denied.
“Once we say Donald Trump is a scab, that is what we imply. Once we say Trump stands towards the whole lot our union stands for, that is what we imply,” Fain mentioned within the Tuesday press launch. “Donald Trump will all the time aspect towards employees standing up for themselves, and he’ll all the time aspect with billionaires like Elon Musk, who’s contributing $45 million a month to a Tremendous PAC to get him elected. Each Trump and Musk need working class folks to take a seat down and shut up, and so they snicker about it brazenly. It’s disgusting, unlawful, and completely predictable from these two clowns.”
Following the decision, Musk additionally posted on X that he was “pleased to host Kamala on an X Areas too,” regardless of having endorsed Trump within the 2024 election a couple of weeks in the past. He has additionally had a contentious relationship with U.S. President Joe Biden over the previous couple of years, with the Tesla CEO just lately saying that he and his administration had been “totally managed” by the UAW.
Musk has been historically against unions, and on many events has highlited previous scandals involving the UAW. In 2021, he additionally invited the union to carry a vote at Tesla’s Fremont manufacturing facility in 2022, although a vote was by no means held.
Different highlights from the Monday dialog between Musk and Trump embody a roughly hour-long delay at the start, attributable to what Musk defined was a DDoS assault on X. Musk additionally tried to encourage Trump and his voters to cease their assaults on EVs, whereas the presidential candidate inspired Musk’s followers to vote Republican in November.
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