Susan J. Demas: The UAW won the strike, so why doesn't Donald Trump want to talk about it?

After decades of eroding wages and benefits, UAW workers this month won blockbuster contracts with the Detroit Three that few thought possible.

During the “Stand Up Strike” — an homage to the Sit-down Strike against General Motors in Depression Era Flint that spawned the first industry collective bargaining agreement — the union for the first time took on GM, Ford and Stellantis simultaneously, with plants being called up to the picket line at strategic times.

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“The all Electric Car is a disaster for both the United Auto Workers and the American Consumer,” former President Donald Trump declared on social media shortly after the strike began, darkly predicting that it will mean the union “will be wiped out.”

Trump’s sometimes populist rhetoric never translated to actual policy, with his much-ballyhooed 2017 tax cut resulting in headlines like: “Trump’s tax cuts helped billionaires pay less than the working class for first time.”

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