automakers on the administration’s rules over future sales. That might mean alienating other allies, though, since Biden has in the past received support from top U.S. A strike, Brewer said, would leave Biden having “to speak and act consistent with his previous advocacy for working people.” “The UAW is a major player in Michigan politics and if there is a strike, of whatever duration, it’ll have a political impact,” said Mark Brewer, former chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party. Still, a strike could shake up politics statewide. Michigan since became the first state in nearly six decades to repeal “right to work” laws limiting union activity that had been approved by the GOP-controlled Legislature in 2012. The state shifted further during last year’s midterms, leaving the governor’s office and Legislature Democratic-controlled for the first time in 40 years. Nowhere will the political fallout of an auto workers strike be felt more than Michigan, which Biden won by nearly 3 percentage points in 2020.
But, unlike with rail and airline workers, the president doesn’t have the authority to order autoworkers to stay on the job. “When you’re in distress, the people who are there supporting you – that goes a long way.”īiden faced some criticism from labor groups last year when he urged Congress to approve legislation preventing rail workers from going on strike, fearing an upending of supply chains heading into the holidays. But he hopes the White House won’t stay neutral if there’s a strike. Green said he still considers Biden the most pro-union president of his lifetime. Fain, who has previously applauded the “transition to a clean auto industry” as long as autoworkers “have a place in the new economy,” said Trump was “not someone who stands for a good standard of living.”ĭave Green, a UAW regional director in Ohio and Indiana, said the former president “carries no credibility in my book” since “he did nothing to support organized labor except lip service.” did not embrace efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions since manufacturers in China and elsewhere could rush in to produce electric vehicles if the U.S. auto industry and kill countless union autoworker jobs forever, especially in Michigan and the Midwest.”īut some union leaders and members have scoffed at suggestions that the U.S. Trump argued those moves would “murder the U.S.
That referenced new federal rules pushed by the Biden administration requiring two-thirds of new passenger cars sold in the United States to be all-electric by 2032.
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