The United Auto Workers (UAW) president on Tuesday compared U.S. automakers Ford, GM and Stellantis to World War II Axis powers in a speech with President Biden in attendance.
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain said during a speech with President Joe Biden watching that Ford, General Motors and Stellantis could be likened to the Axis powers during World War II.likened major U.S. automakers to the Axis powers, during a rally with President Biden in attendance Tuesday.
UAW President Shawn Fain noted during the speech that autoworkers played a role in the American and allied effort to defeat Nazi Germany, Italy and Japan in World War II. Fain added that, while the enemy was a foreign power in the 1940s, the enemy is now "corporate greed" in reference to theagainst Ford Motor Company, General Motors and Stellantis.
"Today, 80 years later, we find ourselves here again with the arsenal of democracy. It's a different kind of arsenal of democracy, and it's a different kind of war we are fighting," Fain remarked. "Today, the enemy isn't some foreign country miles away — it's right here in our own area. It's corporate greed."
"And the weapon we produce to fight that enemy is the liberators, the true liberators, it's the working class people — all of you working your butts off on the line to deliver great products for our companies," he continued. "That's how we are going to defeat these people, that's how we are going to defeat corporate greed. By standing together.
"Wall Street didn't build the country. The middle class built the country. Unions built the middle class," Biden told the striking autoworkers. "I marched a lot of UAW picket lines when I was a senator since 1973. But I tell you what — first time I’ve ever done it in person."
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