{"id":1996479,"date":"2023-08-10T11:08:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T15:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/union-electric-vehicle-showdown-throws-a-wrench-in-bidens-reelection-push\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T11:10:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T15:10:25","slug":"union-electric-vehicle-showdown-throws-a-wrench-in-bidens-reelection-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/union-electric-vehicle-showdown-throws-a-wrench-in-bidens-reelection-push\/","title":{"rendered":"EV showdown disrupts Biden&#8217;s reelection bid."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Funion-electric-vehicle-showdown-throws-a-wrench-in-bidens-reelection-push%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1996479&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>President Joe Biden Faces \u2063Challenge as United Auto Workers Prepare to \u200cStrike<\/h2>\n<p>President Joe Biden \u2063finds himself in a difficult situation as the United Auto\u200d Workers (UAW) gear up for a potential strike in September. The \u2063UAW is concerned about the nation&#8217;s transition \u200cto electric\u200d vehicles, and their strike would specifically impact workers at factories producing EV batteries for Ford, General Motors,\u200c and Stellantis.<\/p>\n<p>These factories,\u2064 which \u2064are jointly owned by\u2063 battery\u200b companies, currently do not adhere \u200bto the\u200d union wage and benefit standards \u200din place at traditional auto plants.\u2064 UAW President Shawn Fain is urging Biden\u2063 and lawmakers\u2062 in\u200c Washington D.C. to amend federal incentives and legislation to ensure fair wages and safety \u2062standards at all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-unionization-wave-ripples-across-u-s-after-decades-of-decline\/\" title=\"New Unionization Wave Ripples Across U.S. After Decades of Decline\">auto factories<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>&#8220;Which side are you\u2064 on?&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;They\u2019re going to have to choose because \u2062we\u2019re going to ask them,&#8221; Fain said in \u2062a video outlining the\u2063 union&#8217;s position in early August.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In July, Fain \u200dmet with President Biden at the White\u200c House\u200d to discuss the strike. While Fain requested public support from \u2062Biden for the workers, the president\u200b is unlikely to openly discuss specific negotiating points. However, the Biden administration \u200cacknowledges that \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/union-electric-vehicle-showdown-throws-a-wrench-in-bidens-reelection-push\/\" title=\"EV showdown disrupts Biden's reelection bid.\">battery factory workers deserve fair treatment<\/a> and the right to organize.<\/p>\n<p>The UAW&#8217;s decision not to endorse Biden&#8217;s reelection effort, despite\u2063 supporting him in \u20642020, could potentially fracture the \u2063coalition that helped Biden win the presidency. Former President Donald Trump, who won Michigan in 2016, is\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/glencore-in-hot-pursuit-of-teck-as-it-seeks-copper-assets\/\" title=\"Glencore in hot pursuit of Teck as it seeks copper assets\">actively seeking support<\/a> from UAW\u2064 members by criticizing Biden&#8217;s stance on the\u200c Green New Deal and advocating for autoworkers.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen how this \u200blabor dispute will unfold and how it may impact the future of the auto industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden faces a tough situation as the United Auto Workers plan to strike in September due to worries about the country&#8217;s transition to electric cars. The potential walkout by UAW targets employees at Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis factories, known as the &#8220;Big Three,&#8221; that manufacture EV batteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1996480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1996480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}