Donald Trump is a scab.
Donald Trump is a billionaire and that's who he represents.
Let's talk about the labor movement.
I've been talking about Michigan for a long time.
We can't let them take your car industry out.
The former president, Donald Trump.
President Trump spent four years in office destroying, distinguishing himself
as the most anti-union president of the last three decades.
In. Unions.
He appointed Eugene Scalia, one of the nation's top anti-union lawyers,
to be his secretary of labor.
Under Trump's administration, the National Labor Relations Board implemented sweeping
new rules that make it made it harder for workers to form unions rules.
By the way, that Joe Biden reversed when he took office.
Trump can give word salads on how pro-union he is,
but his record speaks for itself.
Donald Trump has a history of serving himself and standing for the billionaire
class, and that's contrary to everything that working class people stand for.
We want a general strike.
We want everybody walking out just like they do in other countries.
As UAW President Shawn Fein understands quite well, Trump packed.
The courts with anti-labor judges.
People like Thomas Farr, who spent his career bringing cases
before the courts to weaken unions.
President Trump made it harder for workers to earn overtime,
and he gutted the federal agency in charge of workplace safety.
- And it's why. - We see ads such as these airing Donald.
Trump. He's not a good man.
He's not a good person.
He does not care about anybody in this world except Donald Trump.
That's it. That's all.
The Nabas Sean McGarvey seen here spoke out against the Ex-potus.
Now he's looking to get in that position again to exert revenge on people.
I go all the way back to the 80s with Donald Trump
and him trying to, you know, get his mug on page six of the New York Post.
The only difference between the Donald Trump of the 80s
and the Donald Trump of today is he feels totally free to let his dark side out.
And his dark side is very, very dark.
I can tell you that he personally committed to me that he
was going to get our pensions fixed.
He understood who was affected by these pensions.
He assured me, I'm the President of the United States.
I'll just call Mitch. I'll tell him to put it in the bill.
Is everybody going to love me? Everybody loves me, right?
Is everybody going to love me? Yes.
Mr. President, you fixed the pension. Everybody's going to love you.
That was wasted breath.
There was lots of other things put in that bill.
There was tax cuts put in that bill for rich people.
When the leaders are telling everyone how much of a con artist
Donald Trump is, believe them, there's another person who despises unions
and aligns with Donald Trump.
Well, all the things that I believed in for all these years, 50 years of coaching
no longer exist in college athletics.
Former Alabama and LSU head football coach Nick Saban.
Saban joined Texas Senator Ted Cruz, a man who objected to the results
of the 2020 election, to not only Brown Nose Saban, but join
forces in a show for the cameras to inform the masses of their stance on an ill.
They hated it.
In short, they hated it because the pendulum would swing from the
most powerful to the people that they call amateurs, which of course they are not.
If one is unfamiliar, the legendary head coach owns two Mercedes dealerships
in the state of Florida under the business name Dream Motor Group.
In total, he owns nine dealerships in the South from AL.com.
Saban has been an investor in luxury.
That was my microphone luxury car dealerships for many years with Dream
Motor Group, already the owner of two Mercedes locations in Birmingham, one in
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the same site of the college campus, LSU, which is where he
coached football previously, one in Nashville and another in the Houston area.
Saban's son, Nicholas, is part of the management team
at Mercedes-Benz of Birmingham.
To give one an idea of Saban's reach, Ole Miss running back Quinshon Judkins
using Nil money the same money that Saban is opposed to.
Well, Judkins bought a Mercedes from Nick's dealership.
How about that?
So none the less, why do we bring up unions, you might be asking?
- For three decades, Mercedes. - Has pulled in billions in profit.
- Off the millions of cars we've built. - Mercedes executive pay goes up.
While Alabama auto workers fall further behind.
The brand may be foreign, but the labor is American.
American nonunion auto workers are getting a raw deal.
That's why over 1500 of us at Mercedes in Alabama have signed union cards.
And are joining the United Auto Workers.
Because there was a showdown in Alabama of corporate greed against workers
organizing to join a union.
And it was a bitter battle.
- I guarantee you anything. - Over a three year contract.
I believe you should have to pay union dues and generate millions of dollars
per year for an organization where you have no transparency, where that money is.
They have pretty much shown a video, if I'm not mistaken,
every single week about the union.
Three minute video.
What you just saw are the fear tactics that Mercedes used.
But also, as we have shown on this very channel and on this very network,
other billion dollar businesses
use to fear monger and stifle the
organizing labor power to join a union.
And what they're fighting.
Are the benefits that it would have to workers from time.
Unions are responsible for bargaining contracts between workers and employers
that guarantee anything from better working conditions to higher wages.
On average, union households have received 10 to 20% better pay than nonunion
households, according to one study.
When benefits are considered, that improvement can rise to nearly 30%.
And while that is certainly a boon for the workers themselves,
corporations must adjust both their balance sheets and employment practices
to acquiesce to the contracts.
That's at the heart of the battle between the two forces.
Now many, as I said previously,
many have fought this and even fired those for trying to organize.
And that goes for Amazon, Tesla, Starbucks, the name a few.
In 2019, Delta distributed pamphlets to flight attendants
and ramp service workers, warning that union fees would cost $700 per year.
But here's what they didn't mention unionized workers earned
$700 more per month, period.
Have they left that part out? Isn't it?
Amazon wallpapered its warehouses with anti-union ads.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz claimed he had no choice but to exclude
workers at unionizing stores from new employee benefits.
Apparently, when you're the boss, you can just make stuff up.
At the end of the day.
The reason for the Bezos and the Howard Schultz's
fighting unionization is rather simple.
You know, the weapon of mass destruction against the automotive industry
has been two words corporate greed.
And many started catching on to this dangerous trend set by billionaires.
Now, what do I mean by this?
Recently, in a huge victory, Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga,
Tennessee voted to unionize in what could
only be considered a blowout via NPR,
73% of workers gave unionizing
the stamp of approval.
It should be noted. Fein and the UAW attempted to organize
twice previously, in 2014 and 2019,
with both efforts faltering.
Now with unionization,
it comes with a few less jets that a board
member of Mercedes can afford.
Or less yachts.
That they can set sail on and knowing that the tide is shifting.
Mercedes decided to call in their ace.
Hi, I'm Nick Saban, welcome to the all new Mercedes Benz
of Birmingham Irondale campus.
That being Nick Saban in an exclusive report from Axios.
Here is what we learned.
Saban was sent down to the plant in Birmingham to talk to workers
at its auto manufacturing campus.
Nathan Bomey would write Saban owns multiple Mercedes dealerships
and has reportedly said he does not endorse the UAW campaign.
Kay Finkley, a quality inspector at the site and a member of the UAW voluntary
organizing committee in Tuscaloosa, would say they don't stop the line for hardly
anything, but they shut the line down and they had a meeting with Nick Saban.
To talk to us about teamwork and the tactics and methods he used
as a football coach, because, you see, it's a tactic that Corporatists put forth.
Hey, come on now, y'all. We're a family, right?
We all work together and love each other, right?
Let's bring in the most, arguably the most successful college football coach
to give you some motivation, which, by the way, he really doesn't like
that you guys are unionizing.
Why would you unionize?
When one advertisement aired, Saban wanted to double down and make it crystal clear.
I do not personally endorse the UAW or its campaign, and sadly,
it appears that all of their fear mongering tactics worked via CBS news.
According to the National Labor Relations Board, 56% of the approximately 5000
eligible workers voted against unionizing, with more than 90% participation
in the election.
What, you know, Mercedes workers were dealt a tough loss this week.
So what is your message to workers, the media, people watching about the role of
a tough loss in the larger labor movement?
That's part of life.
I mean, I'm sitting right here right now as a product of losing
a first election I ever ran for.
I lost and, you know, but I learned through it.
We're going to keep doing this. You know, it's not we don't quit.
We keep rolling.
And we got a lot more great days ahead, a lot more victories ahead.
And we've had a lot of success already and we got a lot more to come.
So I look forward to it.
And I know, I know these workers here want justice, and we're going to keep doing
what we can to bring it to them.
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