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Trump Insults Auto Plant Workers: ‘We Could Have Our Child Do it’ (www.thedailybeast.com)

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Sounds like he wants more child labor and thinks little of workers in general

“When we say Donald Trump is a scab, this is what we mean,” UAW President Shawn Fain said in a press release. “When we say Trump stands against everything our union stands for, this is what we mean.”

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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

I'd agree with you... except Sarah Hucka Sands has been aggressively rolling back protections for child workers in her state.

It'd be just an idiom if not for them literally doing it.