United Auto Workers union members blasted former President Donald Trump for planning to speak at a non-union shop during a strike this week.
Reporter Tina-Desiree Berg from Status Coup News spoke to two members of the UAW on Tuesday ahead of President Joe Biden's visit to the picket line.
Trump is expected to follow Biden to the state Wednesday, but is scheduled to address workers at the non-union Macomb Co. automotive parts.
"I don't understand how [Trump] can address union workers at a non-union facility and still come off as being pro-labor," Berg told the workers.
"I don't think that Trump is pro-labor," one of the men replied. "He's got a history, a very, very long sordid history of not paying his workers."
"He's got a lot of people kind of champing at the bit trying to get paid as it is now," he continued. "It's not paying his lawyers. So yeah, as far as labor is concerned, it doesn't matter where he goes to speak. None of us are going to believe it."
Berg pointed out that Trump had claimed that auto workers were making more money than company owners in a 2008 quote.
"He said, unions get their little 5%, they get another 2%, they get another 3%, 4%. All of a sudden, they're making more money than the people that own the company," Berg explained.
"Mathematically, that doesn't add up in the slightest," one of the workers said. "You could make it 100%, 200%, 300%, we would still not be touching even remotely close to — I mean, literally, it's a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the CEO's pay."
"Yeah, it's a bit of a delusional statement," another worker agreed. "Their wealth is just sickening. It's just so much. Don't need to make that much money."
