United Auto Workers leader Shawn Fain has called President Trump a “scab,” “con-man” and “champion of corporate greed.”On many matters, the two men don’t agree. But when Trump this past week stunned the auto industry by saying he would slap 25% tariffs on all auto imports,

President Donald Trump has once again scrambled the politics of organized labor and the working class with his planned tariffs on auto imports.

The United Automobile Workers (UAW) has officially come out in favor of the Trump administration’s plan to levy a 25-percent tariff on imported vehicles . Union leadership called it the “beginning of the end of a thirty-plus year ‘free trade’ disaster” and a “a long-overdue shift away from a harmful economic framework that has devastated the working class.