UAW president puts illegal aliens over his own membership

Good day all. Recently, Elon Musk interviewed the Greatest President of the 21^st Century, Donald Trump on TwitterX. During the conversation, both Musk and President Trump commented on their dislike of unions. This set off the head of the United Autoworkers union, Shawn Fain, and he filed suit against both President Trump and Elon Musk.

That case will go nowhere fast of course and was obviously politically motivated. I doubt the UAW rank and file were asked about this and may not agree with that suit. This brings us to the next bit of idiocy by Fain. Unlike most of the UAW membership, it doesn’t seem that Shawn Fain has any problem with illegal aliens coming in to the United States and taking jobs. Here are the details from Newsmax:

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain recently downplayed concerns about the effects of mass immigration on labor unions, brushing aside worries about the record number of migrants encountered at U.S. borders during the Biden-Harris administration, Breitbart reported.

Fain’s remarks highlight a significant shift in union leaders’ stance on immigration policy. They also diverge from historical positions that warned of its adverse effects on union strength and worker wages.

Unions traditionally hate illegal aliens and illegal immigration. The reason is simple. Businesses like to hire illegals as “Off the books” workers and avoid paying for benefits, taxes and what the job is actually worth. Fain basically threw his membership under the bus in favor of illegal aliens.

In a recent interview with Axios, Fain dismissed the concerns surrounding mass immigration and its potential impact on labor unions. Despite the more than 10 million migrant encounters at U.S. borders since early 2021 under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, Fain minimized the issue, stating, “They’re not invading our nation. They’re human beings.”

Fain is obviously ignoring both his membership and actual history. There have been studies that show that immigration levels do affect unions. (Not a bad thing of course, but this isn’t what I think Fain had in mind)

Research spanning decades has shown a clear correlation between immigration levels and union membership. Vernon Briggs Jr., a labor economist from Cornell University, dedicated much of his career to studying this relationship. Briggs found that low immigration levels historically bolstered union membership, while high immigration rates coincided with significant declines in union strength.

I don’t know if Briggs took massive levels of illegal immigration into his figures. Lawful immigrants are fully covered by Federal and State labor laws, just like American citizens. Illegals, especially in the construction industry have a long history of replacing both citizens and lawful resident aliens. It’s also not unknown for the employer to call ICE to round up his “Employees” so he doesn’t have to pay them. (Yet another reason to prosecute those who hire illegals knowingly, and these days it’s easy to prove status)

Testifying before a House subcommittee on immigration in 2007, Briggs noted that by 2006, the foreign-born population had surged to 12.1% of the U.S. population and nearly 15% of the labor force. At the same time, union membership had plummeted to just 12% of the employed nonagricultural labor force. According to Briggs, mass immigration was a significant factor in this decline, mainly because a large proportion of immigrants were undocumented workers.

There were other reasons for union membership to collapse. A big one was a far better educated workforce who looked into unions and realized that there wasn’t any actual benefit to being a member and in many cases, membership was costly and a detriment.

Briggs’ research further highlighted that since 1965, the U.S. foreign-born population has increased by 231%, while the civilian labor force has grown by 86%. However, union membership fell by 10% during this period, illustrating the detrimental effects of mass immigration on union density.

You also had corporations moving from union strongholds to states that are right to work states. Unions hate Right to Work states. Why? Workers could get a job and not be part of the union. In a non-right to work state, if you weren’t part of the union, you flat out were not allowed to get a job. It isn’t just the Pro-Union types that are seeing the problem of unfettered immigration. The anti-union groups see it as well.

Economic libertarians, who typically favor fewer restrictions on immigration, have acknowledged the negative impact of immigration on union membership.

A study by the Cato Institute revealed that between 1980 and 2020, immigration reduced union density by 5.7 percentage points, accounting for nearly 30% of the overall decline in union membership during that time. The study found that this effect was most pronounced in the private sector and among male workers.

Thanks to the Biden-Harris maladministration, their erasing the border and allowing between 10-20 million illegals into the country, unions are continuing to lose membership. Of course, as I said above, illegal immigration, along with legal immigration are only a part of the problem with unions losing members. This is why Shawn Fain’s remarks are so interesting.

I don’t know any UAW members, (There is no reason for that union to have an office where I live. We don’t make cares here), but I would make a small wager that the UAW Rank and File is not to happy with Shawn Fain right now. A potential Harris administration’s “Green New Deal” nonsense will put a large number of UAW members out of work, permanently.

The Biden maladministration has been attacking internal combustion engines and trying to impose useless electric cars on Americans. Comrade Kamala Harris is even worse. If she somehow sleazes her way into office, you can basically kiss all those Union auto manufacturer jobs good bye. I suspect that a large number of them will vote for President Trump. Unlike Fain, they remember that things got a lot better for them. Hopefully, the membership will take action and show Shawn Fain the door. He obviously doesn’t have the best interests of the Rank and File as his primary interest.

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