Joe Biden Joins UAW Picket Line

[ChristisKing]

I'm pretty sure that he doesn't have a clue what they're picketing for though. After all, he put them in that situation to begin with. Or rather his green administration did.

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[gipper]

Watch as old Joe throws the UAW workers under the bus, as he did the railroad workers.
Biden signs bill to block U.S. railroad strike

 

[badger2]

Bidenochio didn't stay long. Off to California.

 

[ChristisKing]

Watch as old Joe throws the UAW workers under the bus, as he did the railroad workers.
Biden signs bill to block U.S. railroad strike

As I said before, I don't think he had a clue of why they were there protesting in the first place. I admit that at first I didn't either but unlike Joe I can read and I have a functioning brain.

 

[BackAgain]

His symbolic gesture will eventually be walked back by the White House when it blows up in his face. And it will blow up.

 

[Leo123]

I'm pretty sure that he doesn't have a clue what they're picketing for though. After all, he put them in that situation to begin with. Or rather his green administration did.

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The stupid fool can't even speak into the bullhorn properly.

 

[Papageorgio]

Well, you all know that Biden was an ex-autoworker, ex-trucker, ex-lumber worker, raised in Jewish synagogues. “I mean, you got the first mainstream pro-union President who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”

 

[ChristisKing]

His symbolic gesture will eventually be walked back by the White House when it blows up in his face. And it will blow up.

Yeah as he's here supporting the very thing that his administration is against.

 

[Sixties Fan]

I'm pretty sure that he doesn't have a clue what they're picketing for though. After all, he put them in that situation to begin with. Or rather his green administration did.

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[ Your comments seem to be always lacking something. Like.....facts ]

30 things Biden has done to help workers - The Labor Tribune

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‘The support feels good’: UAW members embrace Biden and shrug off Trump

In Wayne, Michigan, union autoworkers react to Biden showing up to pledge his support and to Trump avoiding them

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[Sixties Fan]

Former President Donald Trump is going to Detroit to try to make the case that he’s got the backs of striking autoworkers — but his record on labor issues has union advocates fuming all over again.

Trump has a long history of courting blue-collar workers both before and after his term in the White House, especially in denouncing plant closings and rewriting trade deals that he said had undermined U.S. manufacturing. But in some of those fights, he claimed credit for wins long before the results were clear — only for the labor side to lose in the end.


Trump took a victory lap, for example, when an electric vehicle manufacturer moved into a shuttered General Motors plant in Ohio in 2020, but the venture hit the skids earlier this year. He also browbeat Carrier Global Corp. to keep jobs in Indianapolis that the company had planned to move to Mexico, but hundreds of workers ended up being laid off anyway.

Meanwhile, his administration pursued policies that were hardly union-friendly — limiting employees’ rights to organize in certain types of workplaces and lowering the standard to rid workplaces of a union, for example. And when the UAW waged a six-week strike against GM in 2019, Trump mostly stayed silent, even as his administration quietly floated the possibility that he might intervene on the union’s behalf.

That may explain why his Detroit visit next week is getting such a chilly reception from nearly all union leaders, especially UAW President Shawn Fain — even as it’s unnerving Democrats who fear that, once again, Trump is outflanking them in appealing to Rust Belt workers bruised by the global economy.

The former president’s campaign believes these voters remain gettable, as they were in 2016 and again in 2020 — and that slicing away at President Joe Biden’s labor advantage is key to winning battleground states like Michigan. But those voters should pay attention to Trump’s actual record, Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) told POLITICO.

“Donald Trump is full of nothing but broken promises, and Michigan’s autoworkers haven’t forgotten,” she said.

Asked for comment, a Trump spokesperson sent a long list of the former president’s economic accomplishments, saying his policies “created more than 1.2 million manufacturing and construction jobs” and helped “bring back supply chains from overseas.”

These are some of the key episodes that shaped Trump’s history with labor unions and the auto industry, an issue now front and center in the 2024 campaign:

Claiming victory and moving on​

Trump, who said during his inauguration speech that “rusted out factories” were “scattered like tombstones across the across the landscape of our nation,” has latched onto specific manufacturing plants and demanded they stay open. But that hasn’t always worked out in the long run.

Perhaps most notably, shortly after the 2016 election and even before he was sworn in as president, Trump spent weeks pressuring Carrier to keep workers at a plant in Indianapolis instead of moving them to Mexico.

The company eventually agreed after being offered state incentives, brokered by Trump and Mike Pence, then the governor of Indiana.

But despite boasts that he had saved jobs and that the company would possibly even add more, the plant’s workforce — once about 1,400 people — was ultimately cut in half, according to Mike Millsap, United Steelworkers’ top elected officer in Indiana.


(full article online)

Trump's labor record will trail him as he wades into UAW strike

The former president’s plans to show up for autoworkers are more overt than Joe Biden’s. But Trump’s track record has its holes.

www.politico.com

 

[ChristisKing]

Former President Donald Trump is going to Detroit to try to make the case that he’s got the backs of striking autoworkers — but his record on labor issues has union advocates fuming all over again.

Trump has a long history of courting blue-collar workers both before and after his term in the White House, especially in denouncing plant closings and rewriting trade deals that he said had undermined U.S. manufacturing. But in some of those fights, he claimed credit for wins long before the results were clear — only for the labor side to lose in the end.


Trump took a victory lap, for example, when an electric vehicle manufacturer moved into a shuttered General Motors plant in Ohio in 2020, but the venture hit the skids earlier this year. He also browbeat Carrier Global Corp. to keep jobs in Indianapolis that the company had planned to move to Mexico, but hundreds of workers ended up being laid off anyway.

Meanwhile, his administration pursued policies that were hardly union-friendly — limiting employees’ rights to organize in certain types of workplaces and lowering the standard to rid workplaces of a union, for example. And when the UAW waged a six-week strike against GM in 2019, Trump mostly stayed silent, even as his administration quietly floated the possibility that he might intervene on the union’s behalf.

That may explain why his Detroit visit next week is getting such a chilly reception from nearly all union leaders, especially UAW President Shawn Fain — even as it’s unnerving Democrats who fear that, once again, Trump is outflanking them in appealing to Rust Belt workers bruised by the global economy.

The former president’s campaign believes these voters remain gettable, as they were in 2016 and again in 2020 — and that slicing away at President Joe Biden’s labor advantage is key to winning battleground states like Michigan. But those voters should pay attention to Trump’s actual record, Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) told POLITICO.

“Donald Trump is full of nothing but broken promises, and Michigan’s autoworkers haven’t forgotten,” she said.

Asked for comment, a Trump spokesperson sent a long list of the former president’s economic accomplishments, saying his policies “created more than 1.2 million manufacturing and construction jobs” and helped “bring back supply chains from overseas.”

These are some of the key episodes that shaped Trump’s history with labor unions and the auto industry, an issue now front and center in the 2024 campaign:

Claiming victory and moving on​

Trump, who said during his inauguration speech that “rusted out factories” were “scattered like tombstones across the across the landscape of our nation,” has latched onto specific manufacturing plants and demanded they stay open. But that hasn’t always worked out in the long run.

Perhaps most notably, shortly after the 2016 election and even before he was sworn in as president, Trump spent weeks pressuring Carrier to keep workers at a plant in Indianapolis instead of moving them to Mexico.

The company eventually agreed after being offered state incentives, brokered by Trump and Mike Pence, then the governor of Indiana.

But despite boasts that he had saved jobs and that the company would possibly even add more, the plant’s workforce — once about 1,400 people — was ultimately cut in half, according to Mike Millsap, United Steelworkers’ top elected officer in Indiana.


(full article online)

Trump's labor record will trail him as he wades into UAW strike

The former president’s plans to show up for autoworkers are more overt than Joe Biden’s. But Trump’s track record has its holes.

www.politico.com

Would you shut the **** up about Trump already!? Seriously!! Every ******* thread you reply in it's Trump this and Trump that. If you're so in love with the guy just marry him already and leave the rest of us out of it.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Would you shut the **** up about Trump already!? Seriously!! Every ******* thread you reply in it's Trump this and Trump that. If you're so in love with the guy just marry him already and leave the rest of us out of it.

Absolutely tellingly PATHETIC response.

There is a 2024 election coming up.

Both went, or going to, to the UAW strike picket lines.

It is more than RIGHT to show the words, actions and achievements of BOTH.

You LIED about Biden and what he did for the workers in your first post.

Now, DEAL WITH IT !!!!

 

[Freedomisneverfree]

They hate Biden!~ They want President Trump!

 

[Papageorgio]

Former President Donald Trump is going to Detroit to try to make the case that he’s got the backs of striking autoworkers — but his record on labor issues has union advocates fuming all over again.

Trump has a long history of courting blue-collar workers both before and after his term in the White House, especially in denouncing plant closings and rewriting trade deals that he said had undermined U.S. manufacturing. But in some of those fights, he claimed credit for wins long before the results were clear — only for the labor side to lose in the end.


Trump took a victory lap, for example, when an electric vehicle manufacturer moved into a shuttered General Motors plant in Ohio in 2020, but the venture hit the skids earlier this year. He also browbeat Carrier Global Corp. to keep jobs in Indianapolis that the company had planned to move to Mexico, but hundreds of workers ended up being laid off anyway.

Meanwhile, his administration pursued policies that were hardly union-friendly — limiting employees’ rights to organize in certain types of workplaces and lowering the standard to rid workplaces of a union, for example. And when the UAW waged a six-week strike against GM in 2019, Trump mostly stayed silent, even as his administration quietly floated the possibility that he might intervene on the union’s behalf.

That may explain why his Detroit visit next week is getting such a chilly reception from nearly all union leaders, especially UAW President Shawn Fain — even as it’s unnerving Democrats who fear that, once again, Trump is outflanking them in appealing to Rust Belt workers bruised by the global economy.

The former president’s campaign believes these voters remain gettable, as they were in 2016 and again in 2020 — and that slicing away at President Joe Biden’s labor advantage is key to winning battleground states like Michigan. But those voters should pay attention to Trump’s actual record, Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) told POLITICO.

“Donald Trump is full of nothing but broken promises, and Michigan’s autoworkers haven’t forgotten,” she said.

Asked for comment, a Trump spokesperson sent a long list of the former president’s economic accomplishments, saying his policies “created more than 1.2 million manufacturing and construction jobs” and helped “bring back supply chains from overseas.”

These are some of the key episodes that shaped Trump’s history with labor unions and the auto industry, an issue now front and center in the 2024 campaign:

Claiming victory and moving on​

Trump, who said during his inauguration speech that “rusted out factories” were “scattered like tombstones across the across the landscape of our nation,” has latched onto specific manufacturing plants and demanded they stay open. But that hasn’t always worked out in the long run.

Perhaps most notably, shortly after the 2016 election and even before he was sworn in as president, Trump spent weeks pressuring Carrier to keep workers at a plant in Indianapolis instead of moving them to Mexico.

The company eventually agreed after being offered state incentives, brokered by Trump and Mike Pence, then the governor of Indiana.

But despite boasts that he had saved jobs and that the company would possibly even add more, the plant’s workforce — once about 1,400 people — was ultimately cut in half, according to Mike Millsap, United Steelworkers’ top elected officer in Indiana.


(full article online)

Trump's labor record will trail him as he wades into UAW strike

The former president’s plans to show up for autoworkers are more overt than Joe Biden’s. But Trump’s track record has its holes.

www.politico.com

What does Trump have to do with Biden and the UAW? You make no sense.

 

[ChristisKing]

They hate Biden!~ They want President Trump!

Well obviously. Anybody who matters does, but that's not who this thread is about.

 

[ChristisKing]

What does Trump have to do with Biden and the UAW? You make no sense.

I think that it's got something to do with the fact that they always got to be one up us. If Biden does something stupid it's but Trump did this because they know that they can't defend that idiot. (Biden)

 

[otto105]

His symbolic gesture will eventually be walked back by the White House when it blows up in his face. And it will blow up.

How?