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United Auto Workers union endorses Hillary Clinton

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 25, 2015 file photo, United Auto Workers President Dennis Williams addresses UAW members in Detroit. UAW members at General Motors appear poised to approve a new four-year contract with the company. Workers at two union locals at a huge factory in Lordstown, Ohio, east of Cleveland, and at an SUV assembly plant near Lansing, Michigan, voted overwhelmingly for the deal on Friday, Nov 6, 2015. (Todd McInturf/Detroit News via AP) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT; HUFFINGTON POST OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT FILE - In this Wednesday, March 25, 2015 file photo, United Auto Workers President Dennis Williams addresses UAW members in Detroit. UAW members at General Motors appear poised to approve a new four-year contract with the company. Workers at two union locals at a huge factory in Lordstown, Ohio, east of Cleveland, and at an SUV assembly plant near Lansing, Michigan, voted overwhelmingly for the deal on Friday, Nov 6, 2015. (Todd McInturf/Detroit News via AP) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT; HUFFINGTON POST OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT

By Staff Report May 26, 2016 1 min read

WASHINGTON (AP) – The United Auto Workers union is endorsing Democrat Hillary Clinton for president.

The 400,000-member union announced the endorsement on its website Wednesday evening.

UAW President Dennis Williams says Clinton “understands our issues on trade, understands the complexities of multinational economies and supports American workers, their families and communities.”

The union is praising Bernie Sanders as “a great friend of the UAW, and of working men and women in this country.” But it says Clinton “has shown under pressure her ability to lead and get elected in November.”

The announcement criticizes Republican Donald Trump for comments in which he proposed moving UAW jobs to non-union, lower-paying states in order to compete with Mexican wages. Williams says Trump “clearly does not support the economic security of UAW families.”