Auto Workers Welcome Trump's Tariffs - No Matter What's Happening on Wall Street

Auto Workers Welcome Trump's Tariffs - No Matter What's Happening on Wall Street

Some auto workers like James Benson Jr. are all-in on President Donald Trump’s trade war — and they don’t mind if it causes some short-term pain for both Wall Street and Main Street.

Nationalism, workers' power, and the myth of auto tariffs

Shawn Fain and the UAW have come out in favor of Trump’s tariffs. They’re giving presentations to support their position that free trade is bad (fair enough) and using the narrative that NAFTA killed manufacturing jobs and auto jobs in particular. “The auto tariffs are designed for a specific purpose: they raise the cost on the companies that have killed good jobs in a race to the bottom for cheap labor elsewhere while Wall Street makes a killin…