The livestream on X with former President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk has extra points, and this time it isn’t just technical.
The United Auto Staff union filed federal labor fees in opposition to Trump and Musk that allege two males tried to “threaten and intimidate” staff on the X Areas livestream who wished to take part in “protected concerted exercise, corresponding to strikes.”
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In the course of the dialog, which the UAW referred to as “rambling, disorganized” and “unlawful,” Trump advocated for the firing of staff who went on strike.
“I have a look at what you do, you stroll in, you say, ‘You wish to give up?’ They go on strike,” Trump advised Musk via livestream. “I will not point out the identify of the corporate, however they go on strike and also you say, That is OK, you are all gone.”
The UAW famous in its lawsuit that beneath federal legislation within the U.S., workers can’t be fired solely for occurring strike and that an employer threatening to allow them to go for that purpose is violating staff’ rights beneath the Nationwide Labor Relations Act.
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“Each Trump and Musk need working class individuals to sit down down and shut up, they usually chuckle about it overtly,” UAW President Shawn Fain mentioned in a release for the group. “It is disgusting, unlawful, and completely predictable from these two clowns.”
In 2022, after Musk took over Twitter (now X), he initiated mass layoffs, letting go of 1000’s of workers and senior management following his acquisition of the corporate. In Could, Musk fired Tesla’s entire Supercharger team after one government tried to push again in opposition to extra layoffs.
The UAW, which relies in Michigan, at present represents over 40,000 autoworkers and formally endorsed Democratic Presidential nominee Kamala Harris earlier this month.
Trump and Musk haven’t but commented on the fees.
