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âThe support feels goodâ: 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
www.theguardian.com
"On a damp and windy day, members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) picketed outside a sprawling Ford plant in Wayne, Michigan, burning logs in barrels for warmth. The UAW strike has pushed into its third week, and unlike many strikes, it has managed to stay in the news – not least because on Tuesday, Joe Biden became the first US president to join strikers on a picket line in what feels like the unofficial kick-off to the 2024 campaign season. The speech may have been short and sweet but the reaction was overwhelmingly positive. “It’s about time a president stood up for workers instead of the billionaire class and donor class,” said Quintin Tucker, 57, who works in the plant’s final assembly department.
The Donald Trump campaign called Biden’s visit to the picket line a “cheap photo op”, but at least some workers disagree with that assessment. “That’s where his loyalties lie,” Walter Robinson, a 57-year-old quality inspector, said. “If he wants to be with working people who are struggling, then he would be here. I don’t know who he is playing for – is he playing for working people, or corporations?” “He has to go to a non-union plant because if he came here, we wouldn’t let him in,” added Hearn. “If he pulled up in his motherfuckin’ motorcade right now, we would not let him in.” But it’s too early to count Trump out, said Robinson. Trump gets a lot of support among union members because of “guns, gays and taxes”, Robinson said, and inflation has not helped Biden."
Trump has single-handedly brought back 85% of the manufacturing jobs that Obama and the Democrats sent off to China and Mexico; jobs that have helped these ungrateful union members keep food on the table -- food that was a lot more affordable when Trump was president, and some are saying, the food just tasted better when he was president too....How soon these low-skilled laborers forget; and now they are bad-mouthing Trump and telling him he isn't welcome? One darkie union member even used harsh language, which is very typical of their kind.
If I were Trump, I would use this opportunity to bust all of the unions and side with the corporate elites just to trigger the libs. It will be a win-win for Trump because as the guy said, as long as Trump talks about guns, opposing the gays and cutting taxes for rich people; he will always have the support of workers...and the majority of workers are not even union members, they know the union sucks and their days are long over...Trump needs to make it his mission to destroy unions once and for all - and besides, unions are made up of majority black workers -- so that is just a bonus to busting up unions.
