“The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union-the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job. The UAW will ensure that our member receives the full protection of all negotiated contract language safeguarding his job and his rights as a union member. Workers should never be subjected to vulgar language or behavior by anyone – including the President of the United States,” says United Auto Workers Vice President and Ford Department Director Laura Dickerson in a statement that does not leave any ambiguity over its subject.
Kinda ballsy of them to be announcing it publicly. Like it’d be one thing for the union to quietly go to the mat for the now-suspended worker TJ Sabula – hell that’s the whole point of having a union and they’d be doing it if he was suspended for operating a metal stamper while drunk and high on the job. But to be shouting it out loud that they’re making this a matter of free speech – which a Fox News cameraman would not be entitled to if he called Trump a “pedophile protector,” let’s be completely honest here – is a signal that the UAW isn’t as deferential as the Orange God Emperor hoped they would be back during the 2023 strike. “SHOUT OUT TO YOUR UNION LEADERSHIP TO ENDORSE DONALD J TRUMP. I WILL KEEP YOUR JOBS AND MAKE YOU RICH!!!” the fat bastard famously posted days before holding a rally in front of non-union members holding fake signs.