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Why America's biggest auto union supports Trump's tariffs — and Canada's does not (www.cbc.ca)
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[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 12 points 2 weeks ago

Tensions swelled in the 1980s amid a growing debate over strategy, when the American leadership of the union shifted toward a less aggressive position while the Canadian side wanted to maintain firm pressure on the auto companies.

Correlates with when a lot of Americans bit down hard on the fishhook of Reaganomics.

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