[Opinion] Republicans Try to Manufacture Disingenuous Pro-Worker Branding Amid UAW Strike

Jacobin

Far Left

High Factuality

The UAW Strike Is Bringing Out Republicans’ True Anti-Worker Colors

The UAW strike has put the GOP in a bind: keep pitching themselves as pro-worker or reveal their rhetoric as a masquerade. Yesterday, presidential candidate Tim Scott chose to say what Republicans actually think: “you strike, you’re fired." Sen. Tim Scott speaks to a crowd during a presidential campaign event at Charleston Southern University on May 22, 2023. (Washington Post / Getty Images) From the moment it was declared, the United Auto Wor…