![]() Just this morning, the White House announced it was sending a team to Detroit this week to help resolve the strike. But outside of platitudes, no politicians - local or national - seem to be coming to help get this industry, nearing its fifth month of a shutdown, back to work (an industry that supports 2.4 million jobs and pays out $186 billion in total wages, according to the Motion Picture Association). The auto industry accounts for 3 percent of America’s GDP. I do appreciate that the parties have been working around the clock. I’ve - and when I first called them at the very first day of the negotiation, I said, “Please stay at the table as long as you can to try to work this out”…īut I believe they should go further to ensure record corporate profits mean record contracts for the UAW. Unions raise workers’ wages, they said - incomes - increase homeownership increase retirement savings increase access to critical benefits, like sick leave and childcare and reduce inequality - all of which strengthen our economy for all workers… You know, I’ve been in touch with both parties over - since this began over the last few weeks…. I’d like to say a few words about the contract negotiations between the United Auto Workers and the Big 3 auto companies. His remarks from the White House on Friday: The result? Wall-to-wall news coverage and a sense of fierce urgency among both Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and President Joe Biden, who has called himself “the most pro-union president in history.” The union has about 150,000 members under contract. Two days ago, the United Auto Workers went on strike at three major auto plants. ![]()
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