The president of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union shot back at Ford after the automaker announced they will temporarily lay off hundreds of workers, citing strike-related supply chain issues. “Let’s be clear: if the Big Three decide to lay people off who aren’t on strike, that’s them trying to put the squeeze on our members to settle for less,” UAW President Shawn Fain said in a statement Saturday. UAW began a strike against the “Big Three” automakers — Ford, General Motors and Stellantis — early Friday morning, a first...

Two of President Joe Biden 's top goals — fighting climate change and expanding the middle class by supporting unions — are colliding in the key battleground state of Michigan as the United Auto Workers go on strike against the country's biggest car companies. The strike involves 13,000 workers so far, less than one-tenth of the union's total membership, but it's a sharp test of Biden's ability to hold together an expansive and discordant political coalition while running for reelection. Biden is trying to turbocharge the market for electric vehicles...

A growing number of critics say the Biden administration bears the blame for the ongoing United Auto Workers’ strike that some economists warn could push the economy into a recession. “A 10-day strike could send Michigan into recession, according to a recent economic analysis. If the work stoppage were to last six weeks — the 2019 strike at G.M. lasted 40 — it could push the U.S. economy ‘close to the edge of a recession,’ Mark Zandi, an economist for Moody’s, [said],” The New York Times reported Friday. That would...

A former president of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union pressured President Biden to do more to assist striking auto workers, saying a lot of what he has done so far is just talk. “I think [Biden] should have done a lot more already,” former UAW president Bob King told NewsNation‘s Chris Cuomo on Friday. “I’m happy he came out with a statement yesterday… but words are not the issue. You need to take actions.” “What actions is he going to take to really pressure those corporations to give the...

President Joe Biden is being tested by a historic labor union strike as he tries to underscore his economic credentials before next year's elections. But the United Auto Workers strike, organized by a group that has criticized Biden in the past, presents more challenges than opportunities for the president as Democrats struggle with blue-collar voters.

The United Auto Workers began to strike on Friday, after failed contract negotiations with Detroit’s big three automakers. Shortly before this, though, former President Donald Trump was interviewed on “Meet the Press.” New host Kristen Welker asked him which side he was on, and he responded in a truly cowardly way. “I’m on the side of making our country great,” he said before rambling about how the autoworkers would all lose their jobs eventually because China would produce the world’s electric cars. “I'll tell you what, the autoworkers are being...

Former Vice President Mike Pence laid the blame for the United Auto Workers strike against Detroit’s Big Three legacy automakers on President Joe Biden’s economic policies, saying it was the result of inflation cutting into wages and a transition to electric vehicles that threatens jobs. “Joe Biden has weakened this country at home and abroad. That gusher of spending when they came into office, $2 trillion in unnecessary spending launched the worst inflation in forty years. Wages just haven’t kept up,” Pence said Friday in an interview with Bloomberg Television....

Don’t look now, but oil is heading back toward $100 a barrel. That means rising gasoline prices could be the next big headache for President Joe Biden as he enters election season. That’s on top of the United Auto Workers strike that saw about 13,000 employees walk off the job this morning amid labor negotiations with the Big Three U.S. automakers. Besides causing friction between labor activists and the union-friendly president, an extended strike could increase the cost of cars and exacerbate the inflation that’s gripped the U.S. economy for...

Republican senators are blaming the Biden administration for the United Auto Workers’ strike, attempting to drive a wedge between the union and President Joe Biden’s push for electric vehicles. About 13,000 workers of all three plants in Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio on Friday after negotiators failed to agree on contracts with the so-called Big Three auto companies: General Motors CO., Ford Motor Co., and Stellantis NV. The union is demanding a 36% pay bump over the next four years. While the automakers have countered with wage increases ranging from 17.5-20%...