UAW leader announces major victory: workers at electric vehicle plants to be included in contract.

While politicians and corporate execs try to use EVs as a way to divide workers, unionized auto workers show that fighting climate change must include good union jobs.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/10/06/uaw-leader-announces-major-victory-workers-at-electric-vehicle-plants-to-be-included-in-contract/
TRUMP'S COURTSHIP OF THE UAW HAS BEEN BIZARRE AND ERRATIC. IN AUGUST, MEIDASTOUCH REPORTED THAT TRUMP TOLD AUTO WORKERS THEY WERE "GOING TO HELL" AND THEY SHOULDN'T PAY THEIR UNION DUES.
https://www.meidastouch.com/news/trump-attacks-uaw-as-terrible-negotiators-and-demands-their-endorsement https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/video/uaw-president-announces-major-breakthrough-184931910.html
Mack Truck Workers Reject Contract Offer and Strike as UAW Makes Gains in Strike Against Big 3.
In labor news, nearly 4,000 United Auto Workers members employed by Volvo’s Mack Trucks are on strike after voting down a tentative agreement reached last week. Mack workers in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Florida are joining some 25,000 fellow UAW members on the picket line as they continue their historic strike against Ford, GM and Stellantis. Mack workers say they were inspired to seek a better deal because of the historic strike against the Big Three. On Friday, UAW President Shawn Fain announced a major win in talks with GM. Shawn Fain: “GM has now agreed, in writing, to place their electric battery manufacturing under our national master agreement. We’ve been told for months that this is impossible. We’ve been told the EV future must be a race to the bottom. And now we’ve called their bluff.”
FAIN WAS WEARING A T-SHIRT THAT SAID, “EAT THE RICH.” HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE ANY ADDITIONAL STRIKE ACTIONS FOR NOW.
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/10/9/headlines/mack_truck_workers_reject_contract_offer_and_strike_as_uaw_makes_gains_in_strike_against_big_3
UAW president criticizes Trump ahead of Detroit speech.
 United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain criticized former President Trump on Tuesday and advised auto workers to reject his attempts at winning them over. The big picture: The move comes as Republican presidential front-runner Trump is expected to visit Detroit next week to deliver a speech to striking union workers instead of appearing at the GOP primary debate. Driving the news: "Every fiber of our union is being poured into fighting the billionaire class and an economy that enriches people like Donald Trump at the expense of workers," Fain said in a statement to CNN. "We can't keep electing billionaires and millionaires that don't have any understanding what it is like to live paycheck to paycheck and struggle to get by and expecting them to solve the problems of the working class," he added. Between the lines: Michigan is a key swing state, which Trump won in 2016 only to be defeated by Biden in 2020. The UAW has yet to endorse Biden for re-election after backing him in 2020. Fain said Biden has to earn the powerful union's endorsement, and that its members expect "action, not words." Biden, who describes himself as the "most pro-union president" ever, urged the U.S. automakers last week to share more of their profits with striking union workers to bring a quick end to the historic labor walkout. Zoom out: FiveThirtyEight analysis shows polls published this month indicate a close race if Biden and Trump were to face off against each other in 2024 — with Biden narrowly leading in some surveys, Trump having the edge in others, or the two being tied in a dead heat. What they're saying: "President Trump is on the side of American workers and always will be," a Trump campaign spokesperson said in an emailed statement on Tuesday night. The spokesperson did not address Fain's criticism of the former president, but said that Biden and the Democrats had taken auto workers "for granted and that's why President Trump is ahead in the polls." The UAW and representatives for Biden did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment. https://www.axios.com/2023/09/20/uaw-president-shawn-fain-trump-detroit-speech
UAW president says Trump visit to non-union Michigan company is a ‘pathetic irony’.
A day after President Joe Biden joined striking United Auto Workers on the picket line in Michigan alongside UAW President Shawn Fain, the labor leader says he has no intention of meeting with former President Donald Trump when he speaks Wednesday at a non-union automotive parts manufacturer and supplier in Macomb County. Fain, speaking Tuesday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” with Wolf Blitzer, said he saw no reason to meet the GOP former president who is running again in 2024. “I don’t think the man has any bit of care about what our workers stand for, what the working class stands for,” he told Blitzer. “He serves the billionaire class and that’s what’s wrong with this country.” https://michiganadvance.com/2023/09/27/uaw-president-says-trump-visit-to-non-union-michigan-company-is-a-pathetic-irony/

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