If you’re an auto worker, how you feel about tariffs, may depend on which side of the border you’re on. In Canada, the union representing auto workers has come out strong against tariffs. But on the American side, the union is pro-tariffs. The CBC’s Emma Loop looks at this great divide and how it’s come to be.
On the surface, it seems like a surprising split for two powerful unions with decades of shared history and interests.
The United Auto Workers, or UAW, representing thousands of American auto workers, has thrown itself behind U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs against Canada and Mexico.
“We are glad to see an American president take aggressive action on ending the free trade disaster that has dropped like a bomb on the working class,” the union said recently.
It’s a sharply different position than the union’s Canadian counterpart, which has denounced the tariffs and called …