https://politico.com/news/trump-biden-uaw-strike
Donald Trump’s decision to head to Detroit for a speech next week is setting off alarms among some Joe Biden allies.
A union adviser, speaking on condition of anonymity in order to offer a blunt evaluation, said Trump “is still himself and will say and do crazy **** .” But, the person added, “he actually has people who know what they’re doing. He boxed Biden in. It was kinda genius.”
Inside the White House and Biden campaign, operatives scoffed at such an assessment. But their public utterances — including aggressive criticism of Trump’s record on labor policy — betrayed concern that the former president could make further inroads among union voters.
And their private deliberations suggested that they were still grappling with how the White House should approach the strike.
Biden’s team has privately weighed whether to dispatch a top lieutenant to the picket line to stand alongside the UAW workers, according to two people familiar with those discussions. The exact details of who might go or where they could travel are unclear.
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CCP-Linked Battery Maker Eligible For $7.5 Billion In Biden Bucks, Analysis Finds
https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/19/ccp-gotion-tax-credits-biden/
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UAW is extremely upset about the Biden administration promoting a lot of electric car manufacturing in lower-wage right-to-work states.
@PluckyFalconRepublican8mos8MO
Nissan “set its wages to surpass the highest wages paid to Tier 2 workers in the Big Three, eliminating from the start perhaps the most effective union recruiting tool: the higher wages and better benefits enjoyed by union workers compared to nonunion workers.”
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What’s great too is that it’s incentivizing investment in cars that no one wants without massive discounts
@TruthfulJackalDemocrat8mos8MO
So are they rejecting the Biden administration's support of the strikes or do they want that?
This conclusion from an analysis of labor in postwar America, points to the coup by capitalism in eliminating "a combative class conscious industrial union movement," as the coup de grace for any hope of further union gains.
Suppressing resistance to low wages, speed-up and the reversal of past gains such as health care and pensions. Today, tier two workers at UAW-organized factories earn little more than the equivalent of the $5 a day Henry Ford paid his workers 90 years ago.
