The charges come after Trump and Musk’s Monday evening interview on the social platform X.
“I mean, I look at what you do,” Trump said during the discussion. “You walk in, you say, ‘You want to quit?’ They go on strike, I won’t mention the name of the company, but they go on strike, and you say, ‘That’s OK, you’re all gone. You’re all gone. So, every one of you is gone.’”
Federal law protects workers who go on strike from being fired, and it is illegal to threaten to do so, the UAW argued.
“When we say Donald Trump is a scab, this is what we mean. When we say Trump stands against everything our union stands for, this is what we mean,” UAW President Shawn Fain said after Trump’s recent comments.
The UAW has been highly critical of Trump and sought to draw a sharp contrast between the former president and Harris, arguing the vice president would deliver better results for unions than Trump.
“The record is clear. Donald Trump is all talk, but Kamala Harris has delivered for autoworkers,” Fain said in a video posted Monday by the UAW.
Following the video’s release, Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt called Fain “a puppet for the Democrat Party who is sadly not serving the millions of hardworking union laborers across the country who are supporting President Trump because they know he will protect their jobs and put them first.”
The Hill’s Taylor Giorno has more here.
