Detroit Free Press: UAW's Fain hits back after Trump calls for his firing, blasts union at RNC

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Donald Trump used part of his speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night to criticize the UAW and call for the firing of its president, Shawn Fain, as he sought to broaden his appeal to autoworkers, while Fain offered his own pointed remarks about Trump's record.

The former president and Republican nominee for the office hit on some familiar themes, attacking electric vehicles and promising to bring back manufacturing.

But he also specifically criticized the UAW for not preventing factories from being built by China in Mexico with the intent to bring those cars to the United States. Trump, notably, didn't say how the UAW should be intervening.

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