Posted on 09/16/2023 10:31:00 AM PDT by Libloather
The United Auto Workers strike against the 'Big Three' Detroit carmakers entered its second day on Saturday, and some union members are questioning whether President Joe Biden has done enough to back their cause.
The strike involves 13,000 workers so far, less than a tenth of the union's total membership, but UAW's strike fund has enough cash to support a full 150,000-member walkout for up to three months.
The union representing workers at General Motors, Ford and Stellantis is seeking a 40 percent raise for its workers. The walkout is limited for now to three assembly plants: a GM factory in Wentzville, Missouri, a Ford plant near Detroit, and a Jeep plant run by Stellantis in Toledo, Ohio.
In Kokomo, Indiana, the hometown of UAW boss Shawn Fain, Local 685 President Garry Quirk told Politico that Biden, the self-described 'most pro-union president in American history,' had not done enough to prevent a strike.
'I don't know what he's done,' Quirk said. 'Ask him. I don't think he knows what he's done. Seriously. I'm not trying to be mean.'
Quirk, 60, told the outlet he voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, and then Donald Trump in 2020.
Fellow local member Denny Butler, 52, also expressed frustration at the White House's perceived lack of action.
'We haven't had a president in there for years, with the exception of Trump, that was really for the people, all the way back to the Reagan days,' he told Politico.
He noted that unions were once tightly aligned with the Democratic Party, but said that was no longer the case.
'Democrats were for the working people. That s**t has changed. I'm telling you what, the Democratic Party was not what it was 20, 30 years ago.'
On Thursday, Biden spoke with Fain...
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A local subsidiary of Honda buses in Haitians every day. They totally lack personal hygiene skills even though they take classes at the shop.
How will we be able to tell?
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