On September 15, the United Auto Workers began a targeted strike against Ford, GM, and Stellantis (the conglomerate that includes Chrysler) in an effort to secure higher wages, a four-day work week, and other protections in the union’s next contract. The strike is a huge development for American workers, but it’s also a big deal for President Joe Biden—these car companies are central to his green-infrastructure agenda. The union wants assurances that the industry’s historic, heavily subsidized transition toward electric vehicles will work for them, too.

Biden, whose National Labor Relations Board has been an ally of labor organizers in fights against companies such as Amazon and Starbucks, has called himself “the most pro-union president in American history.” He has expressed support for the UAW’s cause (workers “deserve their fair share of the benefits they helped create,” he said last week) and has sent aides to Michigan to assist in the negotiations.

  • Ech
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    141 year ago

    Then get the asshole executives to compromise instead? Why is the blame here being put on the workers being exploited?

    • @assassin_aragorn
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      1 year ago

      Oh duh! Why didn’t they think of that!? Just compromise with the fucking scumbags, easy!

      • Ech
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        61 year ago

        Maybe take a second pass at reading what I actually said, bud, unless you’re calling the workers “fucking scumbags”, and if that’s the case, right back at ya!

        • @assassin_aragorn
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          My point is that I think they’ve been trying to compromise with the executive scumbags for a long time