• Union strategy: 13,000 autoworkers at the three Midwest plants, about 9% of the unionized workforce at the Big Three automakers, were the first to walk off the job. Now, more workers are temporarily out of work as the automakers are asking hundreds of non-striking workers not to show up to work.
  • Negotiation and demands: The UAW’s call for a 40% pay increase is still intact as negotiations continue. Also on the docket are pensions, cost-of-living adjustments and quality-of-life improvements.
  • Reactions: President Biden urged automakers to share their profits with workers as the strike tested his bid to be the “most pro-labor” president. He is dispatching Julie Su, the acting labor secretary, and Gene Sperling, a White House senior adviser, to Detroit to help with negotiations.
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    71 year ago

    Damn thirty percent. Thank you. Wow.

    Yeah, knowing what I knew about Biden, I have been shocked at how many of his presidential decisions and policies I’ve agreed with.

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      71 year ago

      The media always frames it like it’s the workers costing the economy, not the greedy mfers at the top.