Official UAW Strike 2023 Thread - Once Again It's On.....

[nyknick]

‘The support feels good’: UAW members embrace Biden and shrug off Trump

In Fort Wayne, Michigan, union autoworkers react to Biden showing up to pledge his support and to Trump avoiding them

www.theguardian.com

The speech may have been short and sweet but the reaction was overwhelmingly positive.

Walking the picket line, Larry Hearn, a 61-year-old UAW committee member, said: “We’re out here on the frontline taking the brunt for everybody, losing money. The support feels good. We don’t need him to get in our business and secure us a contract, but his support is enough. It hits home with people.”

The Donald Trump campaign called Biden’s visit to the picket line a “cheap photo op”, but at least some workers disagree with that assessment.

“It’s about time a president stood up for workers instead of the billionaire class and donor class,” said Quintin Tucker, 57, who works in the plant’s final assembly department.

Trump will visit a non-union auto shop tomorrow, a fact that was not lost on those outside the Wayne plant.

“That’s where his loyalties lie,” Walter Robinson, a 57-year-old quality inspector, said. “If he wants to be with working people who are struggling, then he would be here. I don’t know who he is playing for – is he playing for working people, or corporations?”

“He has to go to a non-union plant because if he came here, we wouldn’t let him in,” added Hearn. “If he pulled up in his motherfukkin’ motorcade right now, we would not let him in.”

But it’s too early to count Trump out, said Robinson. The former US president did beat Hillary Clinton in the state in the 2016 election and still has his fans.

Trump gets a lot of support among union members because of “guns, gays and taxes”, Robinson said, and inflation has not helped Biden.

“That resonates with a certain sector of people,” he added, estimating that there is about a 60-40 split at the plant in support for Biden and Trump respectively.

Hearn said he is a Democrat and that most union members will say they are, but added, “You never know what someone is going to do when they get behind the booth.”

Frank Wells, a 27-year plant veteran, is a Democrat who is not impressed by Trump, especially because he is visiting a non-union shop.

“Let’s be real. He doesn’t support what we’re doing. He’s corporate. He’s a billionaire, a businessman, but we’re out here fighting for our lives,” Wells said.

Tucker estimates support for Biden and Trump in the plant is closer to 50-50, and that Trump draws support for his “cult of personality” and effective use of social wedge issues.

Trump does not really support the UAW, Tucker said, because “he is from the billionaire class and it’s against his interest”. Still, he added: “People vote against their economic interest in favor of cultural issues.”

He scoffed at Trump’s planned visit to a non-union shop. “The anger that we’re feeling right now - he doesn’t want that to rub off on him so he went somewhere safe, where they don’t have any skin in the game.”

 

[Hood Critic]

 

[FAH1223]

Obama's auto czar is pissed that Biden went to the picket line

 

[mastermind]

Obama's auto czar is pissed that Biden went to the picket line

he wrote that horrendous NY Times Op-Ed that @re'up shared last week that i went off at
:

It’s not a hot issue. People aren’t siding with the companies.

If his advisors are siding against it, it’s because they support the corporations.

Edit: ffs, you share an article from fukking Steven Rattner. He is capital and created the auto industry bailouts from 2008 that execs gave themselves. You gotta stop thinking you are the same class as these people despite having significantly less zeroes in your bank account.

Edit2: I went too hard, my fault. But if those are the people advising Biden, then he has already lost.

 

[radio rahiem]

Trump doing a rally for union workers at a non-union shop is just
How can anyone fall for his shenanigans is beyond me. Americans must really be that stupid.

 

[mastermind]

Trump doing a rally for union workers at a non-union shop is just
How can anyone fall for his shenanigans is beyond me. Americans must really be that stupid.

The fact that the media is painting this as a fight for union voters shows it is.

 

[re'up]

he wrote that horrendous NY Times Op-Ed that @re'up shared last week that i went off at
:

Don't even necessarily agree with that OP ED, or understand it, but I did read it-- it was an example of the kind of pushback internally the Biden team may be thinking of, or trying to counteract, or what his advisors may believe. I don't even understand very well a good portion of some of these areas, this is just me following and trying to understand and engage as best I can.

 

[mastermind]

Don't even necessarily agree with that OP ED, or understand it, but I did read it-- it was an example of the kind of pushback internally the Biden team may be thinking of, or trying to counteract, or what his advisors may believe. I don't even understand very well a good portion of some of these areas, this is just me following and trying to understand and engage as best I can.

For sure

Thats why I had to apologise because I was throwing my hostility at you instead of at them. You were just sharing the capital class’ thoughts.

Mind you, the New York Times is the thinking of the Capital class and has always been.

 

[nyknick]

They made a correction after getting called out but it doesn't change the fact that the whole premise is bullshyt

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

AOC says she'll trade in her Tesla for a union-made EV. These are the 2 models she should consider.

There aren't many union-made electric cars on the market. And even fewer that we think AOC might like.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Spidey Man]

AOC says she'll trade in her Tesla for a union-made EV. These are the 2 models she should consider.

There aren't many union-made electric cars on the market. And even fewer that we think AOC might like.

www.businessinsider.com

I wish they had more options. Give me a plug in hybrid accord. Some joint that can get close to Prius numbers

 

[bnew]

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

 

[FAH1223]

 

[How Sway?]