The United Auto Workers, or UAW, representing thousands of American auto workers, has thrown itself behind U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs against Canada and Mexico.

“We are glad to see an American president take aggressive action on ending the free trade disaster that has dropped like a bomb on the working class,” the union said recently.

It’s a sharply different position than the union’s Canadian counterpart, which has denounced the tariffs and called the UAW’s stance “naive,” given the impact experts say tariffs will have on the auto industry and U.S. autoworkers.

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