The United Auto Workers is expanding its strike days after President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump visited Michigan to rally union support. An additional 7,000 workers joined the other UAW members who are striking against three major automakers, Ford, Stellantis, and General Motors. The workers from General Motors’s Lansing Delta Township Assembly and Ford’s Chicago Assembly began striking at noon on Friday, making the total number of strikers 25,000 workers, according to the union. ALL EYES TURN TO GAVIN NEWSOM AS DIANNE FEINSTEIN DEATH CREATES SENATE VACANCY "To...

The White House said Friday President Biden won't be involved in any United Auto Workers negotiations with Detroit's Big Three automakers after visiting striking workers this week. Biden told striking autoworkers Tuesday to "stick with" their demand for a 40% pay increase when he visited a picket line in Belleville, Michigan. The president said workers deserve a "lot more" than they are getting, but the White House reiterated that Biden is not getting directly involved in negotiations. "He believes they should get a significant raise," White House press secretary Karine...

It will be pivotal again in 2024. And that’s why both candidates flew to metro Detroit on consecutive days this week to insert themselves into the United Auto Workers’ strike against the so-called “Detroit Three” — General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis, the company that owns Chrysler. On Tuesday, Joe Biden, the self-proclaimed “most pro-union president in history,” appeared in Wayne County, home of Detroit, on a picket line with workers — something no modern president has done during a strike. His message: that UAW members deserved a raise now that...

Former Obama aide Steve Rattner told NBC News in an interview that President Biden "bowed" to progressives by joining the autoworkers in their picket line and said the decision was "outrageous." "For him to be going on a picket line is outrageous," Rattner said, according to the outlet. "There’s no precedent for it. The tradition of the president is to stay neutral in these things. I get the politics. The progressives all said, ‘We don’t want a mediator; we want an advocate.’" "And he bowed to the progressives, and now...

The Biden campaign launched an ad Thursday focusing on how the president has experience working with politicians from all parties, featuring clips of well-known Republicans. The 60-second ad, titled “The Way,” shows clips of Mr. Biden at different points in his career with former President Ronald Reagan, the late Sen. John McCain and former Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. “There was a time in America when we expected leaders to put people over politics,” the narrator says. “When, instead of shouting, people from different parties talked and...

Former President Donald Trump ripped President Joe Biden’s push for electric vehicles, calling it a “hit job” on Detroit and the auto industry. Trump spoke in Clinton Township, Michigan, to a crowd of union workers instead of attending a debate at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, that aired on Fox Business Network Wednesday. Trump currently leads a 42.2% lead over Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida among Republican primary voters in the Real Clear Politics average of polls from Sept. 14 though September 26, drawing 56.6% of...

During the second 2024 Republican presidential debate on Wednesday, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum said that the United Auto Workers strike is a direct result of President Joe Biden’s green agenda. “We’re missing the point, and every other network is missing the point,” Burgum said of the strike against Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis. “The reason why people are striking in Detroit is because of Joe Biden’s interference with capital markets and free markets. The subsidies…we’re subsidizing the automakers and we’re subsidizing the cars, and a particular kind of car,...

The United Auto Workers went on strike against the Big Three car manufacturers earlier this month. The historic labor stoppage could have broad ramifications for the economy, the labor movement, and beyond — but it’s already having an impact on the 2024 presidential election. Donald Trump, who has long been trying to win support of the union, traveled to Michigan on Wednesday to speak to autoworkers as his Republican primary competitors debated in California. The trip comes a day after Joe Biden visited the state, where he became the first...

The first question during Wednesday’s GOP presidential debate focused on the United Auto Workers strike against the country’s Big Three automakers. The candidates directed their criticism at President Biden and the striking union members, with little to no mention of former president Donald Trump — who skipped the debate in favor of making a pitch to working-class Americans. Biden made history on Tuesday when he became the first sitting president who has joined a picket line as he attempted to make good on a promise to be “the most pro-union...

Boos rained down from striking members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) when former President Trump referenced President Joe Biden’s 12-minute visit to Wayne County, Michigan, on Tuesday to “pose for photos at the picket line.” “Yesterday, Joe Biden came to Michigan to pose for photos at the picket line,” Trump said, drawing a roar of boos for the Democrat president. “But it’s his policies that send Michigan autoworkers to the unemployment line.” Notably, the UAW is striking for wage increases in the wake of Bidenflation, as well as assurances...