Tesla CEO and possible, future Twitter owner Elon Musk blasted the Biden Administration’s ties to unions in a new interview released Tuesday, saying “the general public is not aware of the degree to which unions control the Democratic Party.” He spoke with the Tesla Owners Silicon Valley club and noted that neither of his two most prominent enterprises—Tesla and SpaceX—are unionized.
He also describes why Tesla was not invited at the White House’s electric vehicle event. Naturally, the United Auto Workers Union (UAW), a powerful union of auto workers and mechanics was invited. Musk stated:
Biden organized an EV summit in which Tesla was not permitted to attend. However, Biden did allow Tesla to attend. [United Auto Workers] was. Tesla is responsible for two-thirds American electric vehicle sales.
So, deliberately excluding us from an EV summit at the White House—but including UAW—tells you everything you need to know.
He said:
They have so much power over the White House that they can exclude Tesla from an EV summit — insane.
The @UAWpossesses so much power it is able to get the White House out of the EV Summit. @gm “lead” the EV revolution and yet they only produced 26 EVs while Tesla delivered 300,000… @elonmusk 🎥 @klwtts pic.twitter.com/MHB1LPNiXF
— Tesla Owners Silicon Valley (@teslaownersSV) June 17, 2022
Musk was also miffed that “Electric Joe” Biden heaped praise on GM CEO Mary Barra at the EV summit, in a quarter where GM delivered just 26 electric vehicles. “That’s some next-level insanity,” he said.
He has taken issue with the UAW in the past, once quipping that their motto should be, “Fighting for the right to embezzle money from autoworkers.” Love him or not, he certainly is funny.
UAW slogan – “Fighting for the right to embezzle money from auto workers!”
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 29, 2022
Benzinga says Musk believes that the UAW wants Tesla’s unionization. “I don’t like the UAW,” he flatly declared, further charging that the union launched a smear campaign against Tesla because of its success.
UAW is one among the strongest and most active unions in America. This is InluenceWatch.
UAW was at forefront of American labor movements and used strike tactics and sit-downs for American car companies to agree to their first labor agreements in the 1930s and 1940s. Over the years, the UAW has lobbied for excessive labor handouts—at one point including a “jobs bank” that paid laid off autoworkers 95 percent of their salary. UAW also supported a $80B government-funded bailout of the auto industry, which critics said was only a thinly veiled rescue for UAW.
They’re also heavily into political donations:
The union uses this money to push a left-of-center agenda that includes traditional labor union prerogatives, such as replacing secret-ballot unionization elections with public “card check” and other liberal items including environmentalist manufacturing mandates, tax increases, legal status for millions of illegal immigrants, and laws to ease prison sentencing.
While Musk is specifically targeting the UAW in his comments, one can’t help but wonder what he thinks of other bullying unions that put their own interests above the nation’s—most notably, the teachers unions.
Musk’s recent news stories have been frequent. Not only for the continuing saga about his attempts to buy Twitter but also because of his firing of SpaceX employees and viral tweets. For those who (rightfully) feel that deep-pocketed unions hold entirely too much sway over both parties, but especially the Democrats, Musk’s latest broadsides will be music to their ears.
The full interview can be viewed here
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