took over Twitter<\/a>, which he renamed X.<\/span><\/p>\n“I look at what you do. 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 okay, you’re all gone. You’re all gone. So, every one of you is gone,'” Trump said to Musk.<\/span><\/p>\n\n
After buying Twitter for $44 billion, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO laid off about 80% of the Twitter workforce, reducing the company’s staff from just below 8,000 to 1,500 employees.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nUAW President Shawn Fain, a staunch supporter of Democrats and a foe of Trump and Musk, said Trump seemingly celebrating Musk’s mass layoffs amounted to worker intimidation.<\/span><\/p>\n\nWhen we say Donald Trump is a scab, this is what we mean,” Fain said in a statement announcing the NLRB filing. “When we say Trump stands against everything our union stands for, this is what we mean.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nFederal law prohibits employers from firing workers solely on the grounds of their wishing to organize and\/or strike.<\/span><\/p>\n\nDonald Trump will always side against workers standing up for themselves, and he will always side with billionaires like Elon Musk,” Fain continued. “Both Trump and Musk want working-class people to sit down and shut up, and they laugh about it openly. It’s disgusting, illegal, and totally predictable from these two clowns.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nFain became UAW president in March 2023. He’s made plenty of headlines since, most notably in September 2023 when the UAW initiated a strike at each of the “Big Three” automakers — Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis (formerly Fiat Chrysler).<\/span><\/p>\nMusk responded to Fain’s comments on his X platform.<\/span><\/p>\n“The last two UAW presidents went to prison for bribery & corruption. Based on recent news, it looks like this guy will join them,” Musk tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n