Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is seeking to commerce in her Tesla for a union-made electrical car (EV).
The New York Democrat was requested why she doesn’t personal an electrical car made by union employees on CBS’s Face the Nation. “We are actually looking into trading in our car now,” responded Ms Ocasio-Cortez, recognized informally as AOC. “So we are looking into it and hopefully we will soon.”
Elon Musk is the CEO of Tesla and Ms Ocasio-Cortez has sparred a number of instances with him on social media platform X/Twitter, additionally owned by Mr Musk.
She stated she purchased her Tesla throughout the pandemic to commute between her New York City district and Washington DC. However, Ms Ocasio-Cortez stated there are actually autos manufactured by unions which have the required vary for the journey.
“Our car was purchased during the pandemic when travel – before a vaccine had come out. So, travel between New York and Washington, the safest way that we had determined was an EV. But that was prior to some of the new models coming out on the market that had the range available.”
“But we’re actually looking into trading in our car now. So we’re looking into it and hopefully we will soon,” she informed CBS.
The United Auto Workers (UAW) union is at present on a historic strike towards three main carmakers and on Friday walked out of all 38 parts-distribution centres operated by General Motors and Jeep and Ram proprietor Stellantis in 20 states.
UAW boss Shawn Fain stated they spared Ford as they have been making extra progress in talks.
“We are focused on moving the companies at the bargaining table. Right now we think we can get there. Stellantis [the conglomerate that manufactures cars of several brands like Citroen, Fiat and Chrysler] and GM in particular are going to need some serious pushing,” he stated.
Ms Ocasio-Cortez beforehand warned Mr Musk was “testing the waters” to probably intervene within the 2024 election.
The Tesla chief can be a vocal opponent of unions.
The Democrat additionally hit out on the Tesla boss after X started eradicating blue ticks and stated the transfer may pave the best way “for major potential harm”.
The congresswoman has additionally beforehand claimed Mr Musk had meddled along with her account. Ms Ocasio-Cortez complained that following a public argument, her Twitter account had seemingly stopped working correctly.
Source: www.the-independent.com