Gewerkschaftsarbeiter schalten Trump Tarife ein: „Direkter Angriff auf die Arbeiterklasse“

It’s really upsetting to see the sheer scale of the economic damage, because of canceled voyages, the number skyrocketed., with a jump from roughly 60,000 containers to a staggering 367,800, and it’s really unacceptable that Trump’s policies are hurting American workers, and it’s clear that these workers really deserve better, and that’s something we should all agree on.

He said he was gonna do it!! But trans people, illegals eating cats blah blah blah blah.

This attack should surprise no one. It was widely advertised.

Unions are turning on the notorious union buster? God I wish people would stop hating intellectualism, we would be in such a better place as a country.

That’s nice but it isn’t nearly enough pain for them to have learned their lesson in any permanent sense. But we’re just getting started so I’m sure after 4 years of things only getting worse, those that remain will have a better understanding of their error.

America is a terrible country. I’m embarrassed to say I’m American and I’m a lengthy service veteran. What a joke this place is.

I’m making $600 less a month since mid January due to my employer cutting all overtime. We are building roughly 2,000 less cars a month. Sales are down, and poor projections means only build what we must. It also means, for us in 2025, a new policy: we are currently 900+ cars „behind“ due to random downtime due to things breaking (it happens). In the past, for example, we would be working a Saturday, or 2 hrs a day of OT (we averaged atleast an hour of OT a day, now we are getting 0 everyday, going on 4 months now) until we got caught up. Instead, it is reported daily „we are this amount behind“, but the daily build remains low. They even implemented 1 hour of down time a week per shift to stop production and talk about safety. No urgency to catch up, no suggestion things will get better. All we do know, is so many of our plans are in chaos. They are trying to wait it out & not lay people off, but sales in Q1 are down 4+% & 7+% compared to last year on the two cars we build. That will only go lower as the year progresses.

-$600 a month really hurts me. Hey, I’d love to never work OT again. But I did recently (in September 24) buy a new car after my 20 year old car finally gave up. Plus, I was working a lot & have a long commute, so I wanted something super reliable. I should’ve known, man. I should’ve waited til after the election. I regret it, but I had hopium for Kamala.

Sucks, but I’ve been taking this time to talk to my coworkers about this current moment. Most of them are in the cult hardcore, bit a few just voted for him because they thought he would be good for the economy, and liked the idea, as people who work a lot of OT, of no taxes on overtime. Obviously I tried to warn them, but the majority of these blue collar white men were never going to vote for a woman, let alone a female POC „elitist“ from California. I really tried to talk sense into them, but had no luck. In my area at work, I have 37 co-workers. 4 of us voted for Haris, 30+ voted for Trump, and I think a few didn’t vote at all. That’s just the people I work with. This car manufacturing location actually employs 10k people here. It’s the best job in the state for people without an education.

Who could’ve seen this coming?! /s

Biden was the first president in history to walk a picket line. Union rights and protections were established by FDR. The Democratic party is the only party that has ever had worker’s backs and protected their rights. The fact that union workers voted for Trump and the Republicans by any margins is lunacy and any union worker that did deserves everything coming to them. Fucking idiots.

I know some union people that voted Trump because they thought the Democrats abandoned unions after [Biden interfered with the railroad strike](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-signs-bill-block-us-railroad-strike-2022-12-02/).

But instead of getting something like that now they are at risk of union busting at the national level and a authoritative dictatorship they have no hope of resisting. To think that they were super upset about Biden but were okay with all the chaos Trump promised. And only now do some of them have doubts.

One party while not perfect, had leaders ~~crossing~~ walking the picket line to support unions. The other is led by someone who admitted to not paying workers for their work.

This isn’t that fucking hard

Gee, ya think? Why is it taking so long for Americans to realize that Trump is a Russian compromised agent provocateur?

Union workers who voted for Trump.

„But the leopard said he wasn’t hungry, so I joined him in the cage“ y’all voted for this you can’t complain or bitch about it.

DUUuuuuuuUUUHHH!

Look, I’m from blue collar working class background, lucky to have made it through college and into white collar America… I am as pro working class as I know – and the republican party hasn’t reflected US working class interests in my lifetime – I’m 50.

The republican party is predatory. They are parasitic. They are malignant.

Trickle down economics is the lie of the century, and that working class Americans continue to fall for it can only be explained by the absolute ignorance of the majority of voters. They’re financially illiterate, and as a result are willing to fall for shady sales tactics and lies.

As a result, most aspects of their lives are shitty – they don’t earn enough, carry too much debt, and can’t manage trying challenges… They’re angry, frightened, frustrated, and willing to back a bankrupt felon who clearly cannot give a Fuck about them because he promised to be their retribution…

Fucking seriously.

Red state America can kiss my ass.

That’s odd. The unions were so enthusiastic to support Trump and the other anti-union Republicans. What’s the matter? Don’t like what you get when you vote against your own self interests? Your racism and bigotry being satiated not enough to offset the harm the Republicans are inflicting on the economy?

Union Workers should be disgusted with Trump before the Tariffs. One of the most anti working class presidents in history.

If only someone told them this.

No sympathy because given the chance they’ll vote Trump again.

He literally said he was going to do that.

Union member here. It’s mind boggling the extent they go to justify this insanity. They support him but not his policies. Then wtf do you support? The rape? Lies?

Our contract went to Congress. We needed 60 votes in the senate to get what we wanted. 50 Dems (all of them at the time) voted for us along with 5 republicans. It failed by 5. Later that day I hear someone talking about how “Democrats fucked us!” They couldn’t explain it but they were convinced.

It can be difficult at work. I live in a red state. Most are red because they’re supposed to be or brought up that way. Very few have good reasons for it.