Teamsters Common President Sean M. O’Brien and Teamsters Movement Image Division Director Lindsay Dougherty praised President Donald Trump’s name to position a 100% tariff on movies produced in different international locations.
In a Reality Social publish on Sunday, Trump wrote that the “Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death.” He went on to warn, “Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States,” and that, “Hollywood, and many other areas within the U.S.A., are being devastated.”
Trump added that plans to institute a tariff are within the works, and he licensed the Division of Commerce and the USA Commerce Consultant “to immediately begin the process of instituting a 100% Tariff on any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands.”
The 2 representatives of the Teamsters union praised Trump for this in a press release, saying, “For years, Hollywood studios have hollowed out the industry by following Corporate America’s crooked playbook of outsourcing good union jobs. Studios chase cheap production costs overseas while gutting the American workforce that built the film and TV industry.”
“These gigantic corporations line their pockets by recklessly cutting corners, abandoning American crews, and exploiting tax loopholes abroad,” the assertion added. “While these companies get rich fleeing to other countries and gaming the system, our members have gotten screwed over. The Teamsters Union has been sounding the alarm for years. If studios want to benefit from American box offices, they must invest in American workers.”
The assertion included an express assertion of reward for Trump himself, declaring, “We thank President Trump for boldly supporting good union jobs when others have turned their heads. This is a strong step toward finally reining in the studios’ un-American addiction to outsourcing our members’ work.”
The union clarified that they’re keen to reward representatives of any occasion for embracing such an agenda.
“The Teamsters applaud any elected official — Republican, Democrat, Independent — who’s willing to fight for American workers,” the assertion learn. “We look forward to continuing to work with the administration to build a trade agenda that benefits our members and workers throughout the American motion picture and TV industry.”
It concluded, “It’s time to create good film jobs here at home by bringing production back to America.”
O’Brien spoke concerning the union’s assertion on Fox Information’ “America Reports” Tuesday, reaffirming his assist for Trump’s coverage. He argued that America has probably the most inventive workforce and actors, however shredded Hollywood leaders for being extra targeted on “the bottom line of a balance sheet” than creativity.
At one level within the interview, Fox Information host John Roberts requested the union boss what he thinks about how Democrats are “demonizing” the president. O’Brien recommended that the Democratic Get together is reflexively towards something Trump desires.
“I think I’ve said this before, whatever President Trump does, even if it’s good for this country, just because his name is Trump, he’s not gonna get the support,” O’Brien mentioned of the Democratic Get together. “We are looking beyond any differences of opinions that we have had with anybody.”
“We want to bring manufacturing back to the country. We want to bring jobs, put people to work at, have a career path. Not everybody has the ability to go to a 4-year college. There is an ability to bring manufacturing back, put people to work, have careers and live a middle-class life. I think regardless of whether you are a Democrat, Republican, or an Independent, we should be realists and want to encourage people to develop and manufacture in this country,” he concluded.
