Canada's largest private sector union, Unifor, blasted United States President Donald Trump's newly announced auto tariffs, saying that the US president "fails to understand" the consequences of his measure.
"Donald Trump has convinced himself that, somehow, the jobs of Canadian autoworkers are his to claim," Unifor National President Lana Payne said. "We have built cars here for over a century, long before the US was our primary trade partner. I will state this as clearly and unequivocally as I can. These are not his jobs to take," she stressed.
"President Trump fails to understand the chaos and damage this tariff will inflict on workers and consumers in both Canada and the United States," Payne added. Unifor represents 320,000 workers in "every major area of the economy," according to its website.
