UAW Pickets And Presidential Politics Meet.
“The 2024 presidential election didn’t seem close at hand on one of the United Auto Workers’ dozen-plus picket lines in Michigan on a recent warm Sunday afternoon, with music playing, hot dogs roasting on a grill and a small group of autoworkers wearing bright red T-shirts in solidarity with their fellow members who are on strike.
But this week, that race — a likely rematch between President Joe Biden, a Democrat, and former President Donald Trump, a Republican — is coming to a picket line in Michigan. The UAW’s strike against all three Detroit automakers for the first time in history has become a political football being bandied about by politicians on both sides of the aisle. Some UAW members welcome the attention on their fight for better wages, benefits and working conditions; others roll their eyes.”
The most of American of American cities holds a special place in the minds of the Nation. I am speaking about Detroit that most Americans recognize gave birth to the Middle Class and put the World on wheels. Even though its dominance in the auto industry has subsided in the last 40 years, it remains a formidable incubator of collective bargaining trends that are often adopted by other unions in their contracts. The striking UAW workers want to be seen as representing ‘every person’ America and so do the Presidential contenders.
