[Now a negro hugger...] Biden joins UAW strikers at picket line, showing solidarity in [dubious...] historic moment

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://www.axios.com/2023/09/26/president-biden-uaw-strike-picket-detriot

President Biden joined striking autoworkers in Detroit on Tuesday, marking
what appeared to be the first time a sitting president has ever visited a
picket line.

Why it matters: The pro-union Democrat stood for thousands of autoworkers
leading an unprecedented strike of the Detroit Three automakers.

Driving the news: Biden spoke briefly before picketing workers, flanked by
UAW President Shawn Fain, who called it "a historic moment."

"You guys, the UAW, you saved the automobile industry back in 2008 and
before," Biden said on Tuesday. "Made a lot of sacrifices, gave up a lot."
"And the companies were in trouble, but now they're doing incredibly well.
And guess what, you should be doing incredibly well, too."

Biden told workers they deserve more pay than they are receiving, along
with other benefits being advocated for by union negotiators.

"Wall Street didn't build the country," Biden said. "The middle class
built the country."

Biden visited with workers for about 15 minutes after the speeches, the
New York Times reported, until his motorcade returned to Air Force One.

Between the lines: Biden has expressed full support for the United Auto
Workers, as he vies for political support from unionized labor. Meanwhile,
former President Trump plans to speak Wednesday in Michigan to current and
former union members.

After landing in Detroit, the president was asked about the UAW's
endorsement in the 2024 presidential election, according to a White House
pool report. He said he wasn't worried.

In May, the union's president said the organization was not endorsing
Biden yet, citing the growth of electric vehicles as a risk for the
industry.

Of note: Biden picketed with workers near General Motors' parts center on
the Willow Run site — a property that's a shell of its former self, having
previously housed a 5 million-square-foot plant that built transmissions
for GM vehicles.

The transmission factory was shuttered in 2010 in the wake of GM's
bankruptcy and later razed, leaving the parts distribution facility as a
much smaller surviving operation.

The old Willow Run factory was widely considered the heartbeat of the
Arsenal of Democracy — the manufacturing powerhouse that built planes and
weapons for the Allies during World War II — after Henry Ford built it to
make B-24 bombers.

GM acquired the facility years later and had some 14,000 workers there at
its height in the 1970s.

Catch up quick: Thousands of auto workers are striking at 38 plants and
distribution centers across 20 states, under the leadership of UAW
president Shawn Fain, who invited Biden to their picket line.

The automakers must "come to their senses," Fain has said, and pay workers
what they deserve, calling for a 36% wage increase, a return to
traditional pensions, retiree health care and a 32-hour workweek.

The Detroit Three automakers — General Motors, Ford and Stellantis — have
lost production of more than 16,000 vehicles, according to a Deutsche Bank
analysis cited by the AP.

https://money.cnn.com/2014/05/29/news/companies/gm-profit-
bailout/index.html

After filing for bankruptcy five years ago, General Motors is now one of
the most profitable companies in the world.

GM has earned a stunning $22.6 billion since the dark days of the
financial crisis, when the automaker was bailed out by the U.S.
government. Taxpayers didn't fare nearly as well. They'd lost $10.6
billion by the time the U.S. Treasury department closed the books on the
$49.5 billion bailout in December.

GM (GM), which filed for bankruptcy five years ago this Sunday, has repaid
everything it was obligated to pay Treasury. Taxpayers came up short
because the U.S. decided to buy GM stock to keep the automaker alive
instead of giving it a loan and saddling it with more debt.

Although GM has been very profitable since 2009, its stock price never
rose to a level that let Treasury to recoup that investment.


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