Auto workers' big win 'wrecks Trump's populist scam': columnist

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The United Auto Workers scored a major win this week with a new deal that ended the six-week strike at America's "Big Three" car manufacturers.

Taking stock of the victory, Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent argued that the ordeal undermined former President Donald Trump's attempt to appeal to blue-collar auto workers when he delivered a speech before a non-union shop back in September.

"This whole affair wrecks Trump's populist scam," Sargent argued on Twitter. "Media outlets credulously reported that Trump would support strikers. Instead, Trump told nonunion workers the strike was a bust, because EVs will destroy their jobs. Yet now the deals (which must be ratified) offer the biggest wage gains in decades."