The head of the auto workers’ union gives Trump prices a mixed examination

The head of the United Auto Workers’ Union expressed partial support on Thursday for the Trump administration prices, saying that the targeted tasks on other countries could help bring back certain manufacturing jobs to the United States.

But the president of the union, Shawn Fain, described President Trump’s world prices as “reckless”. In a speech to UAW members who have been disseminated on YouTube and other social media, he also criticized the administration for dismissed federal workers and reduced the main government agencies, and accused it of violating the civil rights of students and others.

“We support the use of certain prices on car manufacturing and similar industries. We do not support prices for political games on immigration or fentanyl,” said Fain. “We do not support reckless prices on all countries at crazy rates.”

The address seemed to distance Mr. Trump’s union chief at a distance. During the previous weeks, Mr. Fain praised the price plans of the White House and faced criticism to get closer to an administration that often shows the hostility of organized work. He campaigned frequently and with enthusiasm last year for the former vice-president Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, often gripping crowds by referring to Mr. Trump as a “scab”.

“We are not going to do everything we do with the Trump administration,” said Fain on Thursday. “We negotiate with the Trump administration.”

FAIN used the address to repeat the familiar claims that free trade agreements-in particular the North American free trade agreement-have enabled companies to move American factories and jobs in low-wage countries. He said some 90,000 factories in the United States have closed over the past 30 years, digging flourishing manufacturing cities once Flint, Michigan, and Gary, Ind.