Anti-Trump UAW president backs tariffs on foreign-made cars: ‘They could bring work back in very short order’

Source: New York Post

WASHINGTON — United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain said Sunday that President Trump’s looming 25% tariff on foreign-made cars could swiftly boost American manufacturing jobs. Fain, a prominent anti-Trump campaigner ahead of last year’s election, said that the levies could benefit workers and used remarkably similar language as the White House on how carmakers could onshore jobs. “We have excess capacity” at manufacturing plants, Fain said, using near identical framing as the White House.