Mike Barnicle on Morning Joe falsely claimed UAW didn't push back on Trump's belittling of auto workers yesterday

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...said he was 'stunned.'

The state of reporting today... UAW actually DID push back yesterday.


UAW @UAW
Donald Trump just insulted every American autoworker, saying that "a child could do it."

UAW autoworkers: Do you think Donald Trump could do your job?

Let us know by Thurs. 10/17 at 9 PM EST and you could be featured in a special video release: http://uaw.us/

Link to tweet

UAW @UAW
"Donald Trump is a billionaire who’s never worked a real job in his life. He doesn’t know the first thing about hard work, and he wouldn’t last a day in an auto plant. He isn’t fit to be an autoworker, and he certainly isn’t fit to be the President. Trump doesn’t understand us, he doesn’t respect us, and he certainly doesn’t represent us. Trump doesn't care about autoworkers. The only thing Donald Trump wants from autoworkers is a vote. Donald Trump is a scab!" @ShawnFainUAW

President Fain Statement on Donald Trump’s Recent Remarks Disparaging American Autoworkers

UAW President Shawn Fain issued the following statement regarding recent comments made by Donald Trump disparaging American autoworkers:

“Donald Trump is a billionaire who’s never worked a real job in his life. He doesn’t know the first thing about hard work, and he wouldn’t last a day in an auto plant. He isn’t fit to be an autoworker, and he certainly isn’t fit to be the President. Trump doesn’t understand us, he doesn’t respect us, and he certainly doesn’t represent us. Trump doesn’t care about autoworkers. The only thing Donald Trump wants from autoworkers is a vote. Donald Trump is a scab!”

https://uaw.org/president-fain-statement-on-donald-trumps-recent-remarks-disparaging-american-autoworkers/

Trump at the Economic Club of Chicago, Tuesday:

"DO YOU KNOW WHAT THEY REALLY ARE, ASSEMBLY. THEY BUILD EVERYTHING IN GERMANY AND THEY ASSEMBLE IT HERE. THEY GET AWAY WITH MURDER BECAUSE THEY ARE BUILDING. THEY TAKE THEM OUT OF A BOX AND ASSEMBLE THEM. YOU COULD HAVE A CHILD DO IT."

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1. Child labor

Trumps answer to child care and who is going to be taking all the jobs after he deports all the immigrants.

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2. And still the Teamsters back that scab Trump.

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3. the International Teamsters leadership, not necessarily the locals

Kamala Harris Is Winning the Teamsters Endorsements That Really Matter
The national leadership may have snubbed her—but Teamsters in the swing states that will decide the election are backing her all the way.

Dire reports in media outlets that rarely, if ever, cover organized labor seriously would have us believe that Vice President Kamala Harris was dealt a major blow on Wednesday, when Sean O’Brien, the general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, announced that the union would not support the Democrat’s candidacy—or that of her Republican rival, former president Donald Trump. But, as with so many other issues, it pays to look beyond the headlines on this story—because, while the Harris campaign may not have won over the national leadership of the Teamsters in Washington, it has ended up with something more important: a bonanza of endorsements from Teamsters units in the battleground states that will decide the presidential race.

The refusal of O’Brien and the Teamsters leadership in Washington to back Harris was never as big a deal as initial media reports suggested. Harris already enjoyed the overwhelming support of the labor movement even while she sought t a formal endorsement from the Teamsters. Along with an enthusiastic endorsement from the AFL-CIO, the umbrella organization for 60 national unions, the Democratic ticket has the backing of the vast majority of unions that matter nationally and in the swing states—including labor organizations with long records of doing the heavy lifting at election time, such as the United Auto Workers, the Steelworkers, AFSCME, the Service Employees, the American Federation of Teachers, the Painters, the Laborers, and Unite-Here’s Culinary Workers local in Nevada.

In August, the Teamsters National Black Caucus took the rare step of issuing a formal statement backing the Democrats because of their “unwavering commitment to workers and their families.” The caucus argued, “Their records reflect a deep dedication to advancing labor rights and supporting working-class Americans.” Prominent regional leaders across the country delivered similar messages, with Josh Zivalich, the influential president of Teamsters Local 769 in South Florida, arguing in an August letter to O’Brien—which was sent after O’Brien’s appearance at the Republican National Convention—“Vice President Harris has proved herself to us, especially in that she cast the deciding vote on the multi-employer pension relief bill, saving the pensions of hundreds of thousands of Teamsters as you well know.”

So it was that, after the international stood down, Teamsters joint councils and locals across the country rushed to endorse Harris and Walz. On Wednesday night, the “Teamsters Against Trump” movement asked: “How do you spell momentum? In the last 8 hours, joint councils representing nearly half a million Teamsters endorsed Harris.” By midday Thursday the union uprising had gone national, with Harris’s campaign announcing that she had—in barely a day—gained the backing of regional joint councils and local unions representing roughly 1 million Teamsters. “These local Teamsters have committed to immediately begin knocking doors and engaging in other voter-contact efforts across the battlegrounds, noted the campaign, which distributed a list of endorsers that spanned the United States,” announced the Harris camp, which listed endorsements from the Teamster Retirees organization and the Teamsters National Black Caucus, along with support from joint councils in Michigan, Wisconsin, southern Nevada, northern Nevada, western Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia, Washington and Alaska and Idaho, Minnesota and Iowa and North Dakota and South Dakota and western Wisconsin, Illinois and Missouri, as well as major locals in Philadelphia, Boston, Miami, and New York.

“This November,” announced the joint council, which represents 15,000 Teamsters in a battleground state where four of the past six presidential elections have been decided by under 25,000 votes, “we will work with millions of union workers across the country to defeat Donald Trump once again, and to send Vice President Harris and Governor Walz to the White House.” In western Pennsylvania, Carl Bailey, the president of the 35,000-member Teamsters Joint Council 40, echoed that fervent desire to defeat Trump, saying, “I don’t think he cares about working people. He used to brag about having people fired. My job is to keep people from being fired.”

more: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/kamala-harris-teamsters-endorsements-election/