AFT’s Weingarten Says She’s OK with Taxpayers Subsidizing 40% Pay Increase for Auto Workers

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WEINGARTEN: "Look, the government has been subsidizing the oil and gas industry for years — "
KERNEN: "Okay. Is that okay to do this? That doesn’t make this right, though, does it?"
WEINGARTEN: "What I'm saying is that if you have fairness in the labor market, if you have fairness so that families can actually afford to live in homes in Toledo, if you have fairness in this kind of way, what you’re asking a worker to do is deal with everything that the U.S. government and that enterprise and industry should have dealt with for all these years. What I am saying is that workers need to have a fair shake, and they have not had a fair shake for all these years. They were the ones in the last moment, when the auto industry could have lived or died, they’re the ones who took concessions. They have a two-tier wage policy. What we’re saying is that the middle class in America needs to rise."