{"id":2034018,"date":"2023-09-15T21:34:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T01:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uaw-strike-union-joe-facing-lose-lose-situation-after-wrongly-predicting-costly-strike-wouldnt-happen\/"},"modified":"2023-09-15T21:41:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T01:41:48","slug":"uaw-strike-union-joe-facing-lose-lose-situation-after-wrongly-predicting-costly-strike-wouldnt-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uaw-strike-union-joe-facing-lose-lose-situation-after-wrongly-predicting-costly-strike-wouldnt-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"UAW Strike: &#8216;Union Joe&#8217; in a Lose-Lose Situation After Incorrectly Predicting Strike&#8217;s Costliness."},"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\">26<\/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%2Fuaw-strike-union-joe-facing-lose-lose-situation-after-wrongly-predicting-costly-strike-wouldnt-happen%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=2034018&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>Say it ain\u2019t so, Joe.<\/h2>\n<p>That\u2019s what Democrats are \u200csurely muttering to themselves as, despite the Biden administration\u2019s\u2064 public statements this week that the United \u2064Auto Workers wouldn\u2019t go \u200don strike, UAW members Thursday night walked out at all three major U.S.\u200d auto companies.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2064strike comes near the opening of a\u200b year in which plans for \u2062Biden\u2019s \u200cre-election include\u2064 boasts of a booming economy, something an auto strike could derail.<\/p>\n<p>And the U.S. Chamber of Commerce blamed the\u2062 Biden administration for the work stoppages.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>\u201cThe UAW strike and indeed the \u2062\u2018summer of strikes\u2019 is the natural result of \u200cthe \u200cBiden administration\u2019s \u2018whole of government\u2019 approach to promoting\u200b unionization\u200c at all \u200dcosts,\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>according to\u200d a statement Friday by\u2062 Suzanne P. Clark, chamber president and CEO, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/09\/15\/chamber-blames-biden-for-uaw-strike-00116216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The strike is unprecedented\u200d \u2014 the long tradition has \u2064been for\u2063 the UAW \u200dto only strike one company, with \u200bother companies following what the struck company and the \u2063UAW \u200cagree to.<\/p>\n<p>But this strike \u200cis\u2062 aimed at all three\u200d \u2013 General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis (formerly Fiat Chrysler) \u2013 except\u2063 it limits itself to one assembly plant \u200dat each manufacturer, idling 13,000 workers\u200c in Michigan, Ohio, \u2064and\u2064 Missouri, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/money\/cars\/2023\/09\/15\/uaw-cant-reach-deal-with-gm-ford-stellantis-strikes-at-3-plants\/70858771007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The \u200bDetroit \u200bFree Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And the UAW has added it will focus on striking different plants, primarily to keep manufacturers off-guard.<\/p>\n<p>At an impromptu news conference outside the Ford plant\u2064 in Wayne, Michigan, recently elected UAW president Shawn Fain described bread-and-butter issues as main reasons \u200dfor the strike.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>\u201cThere\u2019s a serious\u2064 double\u200b standard in this\u200d country right now,\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Fain said.\u00a0 \u201cThere\u2019s a billionaire class and there\u2019s the rest of\u200d us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re all expected to sit back and take \u2063the scraps and live paycheck to paycheck and scrape \u200bto get by,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>he \u2064continued. <strong>\u201cWe\u2019re second-class citizens.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026This isn\u2019t just about the \u2062UAW,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fain said. <strong>\u201cThis\u2063 is about working people everywhere in this country. No matter what you do for \u200ba living, you deserve your fair \u200dshare of equity.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fain made \u200cthese comments in \u200da WJBK-TV segment, which you can \u2062watch below:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>That, in effect, was\u2062 Fain\u2019s\u2063 summation of \u201cBidenomics,\u201d although \u2062when asked by a reporter about conversations \u200dbetween himself\u2062 and Biden, the UAW president was \u2063very careful to say he \u2062did \u200cnot want \u200bto discuss politics.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the rosy portraits of life in Biden\u2019s America peddled by \u2062Democrats\u2064 and their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-todd-bensman-many-of-joe-bidens-migrants-die-on-trek-to-u-s-border\/\" title=\"Exclusive: Todd Bensman -- Many of Joe Biden's Migrants Die on Trek to U.S. Border\">establishment media allies<\/a>, Fain is on to something \u2013 working people are \u200bhurting.<\/p>\n<p>Not only could Biden not foresee the strike, but \u200dhis administration seems out \u200dof touch to \u200bAmericans plagued by outrageous price increases\u2062 in food and Biden-caused\u200c cost hikes in\u2064 energy.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Fain\u2019s desire to \u200dkeep politics\u2063 out of his pronouncements, he did say \u200che was \u201cshocked,\u201d by a Biden statement on Labor Day when Biden was \u2063asked if \u2062he expected \u200ba UAW strike and replied: \u201cI\u2063 don\u2019t think\u2063 it\u2019s going to happen,\u201d per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/09\/09\/biden-uaw-strike-labor-00114867\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Besides seeking 40 percent pay increases over four\u2064 years,\u2063 32-hour work weeks, and the return\u2062 of pensions \u2063for\u200b new hires, there\u2019s another concern the UAW has: Electric cars.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration,\u200d university professors, planet-protectors and other \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/lefts-electric-vehicle-hopes-dreams-run-wall-evs-piling-lots-no-buyers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">idealogues<\/a> divorced from\u2064 the laws of \u2064nature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/auto-industry-called-colluding-biden-fleece-american-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">think the\u200d world can switch<\/a> from internal \u200dcombustion power to generated electricity with no more discomfort then, say, \u2063unplugging and plugging so many world\u200d systems as we did so smoothly in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Auto workers \u2063know better. They know \u2064electric cars are risky to them.<\/p>\n<p>They must \u2063know\u2062 the electric car movement \u2062is a top-down push\u2063 divorced from market realities.<\/p>\n<p>They\u200d must know internal combustion vehicle prices\u2062 are going up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ford-hit-massively-motor-company-set-lose-much-3-billion-evs-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subsidize the EVs<\/a> and they must \u200bknow\u200d consumers \u200bare not buying $60,000 ICE pickups or\u200b electric Ford F-150s that can\u2019t \u2064tow anything.<\/p>\n<p>They must\u2063 know they need\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jeep-factory-workers-laid-off-due-cost-switch-evs-gets-even-worse-find-factory-opening-next\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">protection<\/a> from such\u200b things\u2063 and \u2062are concerned about \u200cbillions of federal dollars to auto companies for\u200b clean energy \u200dprojects in less unionized and right-to-work states, according \u2063to Politico.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the Department of Energy \u2063established guidelines to move green dollars to union employers, which\u200c some believe will tilt autoworkers to support Biden, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/09\/13\/politics\/biden-uaw-deal-fain-strike\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, \u2062former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/autoworker-tells-cnn-blunt-truth-trump-still-dont-understand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President \u2062Donald Trump<\/a>, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-issues-warning-auto-workers-bidens-electric-cars-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opposes EVs<\/a> and has done well \u2063with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-gm-go-fully-electric-2035-spending-760m-transition-plant-concerned-workers-hope-future-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">auto workers<\/a>, has said Biden policies \u201cwill\u2064 murder the \u200dU.S. auto industry and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uaw-strike-union-joe-facing-lose-lose-situation-after-wrongly-predicting-costly-strike-wouldnt-happen\/\" title=\"UAW Strike: 'Union Joe' in a Lose-Lose Situation After Incorrectly Predicting Strike's Costliness.\">kill countless autoworker jobs forever<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Blue-Green Alliance, a coalition\u2064 of \u200blabor and environmental groups \u200bhas as\u200c its executive director Jason Walsh,\u200b formerly \u2062of the Obama\u2064 administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor my\u2063 coalition, \u200dunion workers are not going to continue to support the \u200cpolicies to make this clean energy shift\u200c if they are not benefiting from it directly and economically,\u201d Walsh said.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cFor them, the\u200d end of the month matters a\u200b whole lot more than the end of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking \u200cof\u200d the\u2062 end \u2064of the world, a prolonged strike could wipe out thousands of suppliers to the auto \u200cindustry, something the Biden administration is considering grants and \u2064loans\u2064 to offset, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2023\/09\/14\/biden-aid-to-auto-suppliers-uaw-strike\/70852542007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A\u2062 strike lasting two or three \u2064weeks could send \u2064half of suppliers into bankruptcy, impacting some 345,000 workers, according to\u200b Politico.<\/p>\n<p>While there are far fewer of them than \u2062there\u200b used to be, a strike of the \u200cmagnitude of that in the auto industry is a serious matter. Last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/08\/17\/uaw-strike-cost-aeg-analysis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNBC<\/a> reported that a 10-day strike could cost the economy $5 billion.\u200d Unlike with railroads and\u200d airlines, the president\u2064 is legally limited in what he\u2062 can do in\u2063 the\u2062 UAW \u200bstrike, but traditionally the White \u200cHouse has interests in seeing such disruptions\u200d come to an end.<\/p>\n<p>But in this case, President Biden couldn\u2019t \u200deven\u200b see it coming.<\/p>\n<p>The post \u2063 <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/uaw-strike-union-joe-facing-lose-lose-situation-wrongly-predicting-costly-strike-wouldnt-happen\/\">UAW Strike: &#8216;Union Joe&#8217; Facing Lose-Lose Situation After Wrongly Predicting Costly Strike Wouldn&#8217;t Happen<\/a> \u200bappeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> Why is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce blaming the Biden administration for \u2064the work \u2064stoppages and what concerns do they raise \u200cabout Biden&#8217;s policies?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Ment allies, the recent strike by the United Auto Workers (UAW) serves as a stark reminder that not all is well in President Biden&#8217;s administration. The strike, which came as a surprise \u200dto many, \u2064undermines the administration&#8217;s claim of a booming economy and threatens to disrupt \u200bthe plans for Biden&#8217;s re-election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Chamber\u200b of Commerce wasted no time in placing\u200c the blame squarely on\u2064 the Biden administration for the work stoppages. Chamber President and CEO, Suzanne P. \u200cClark, stated that the strike was a direct result of the administration&#8217;s aggressive approach towards\u2062 promoting unionization at all costs. The chamber&#8217;s statement echoes the \u2064concerns of many who see Biden&#8217;s policies as favoring unions over businesses and potentially leading to more labor conflicts \u200din the future.<\/p>\n<p>What makes this strike particularly notable is its unprecedented nature. Traditionally, the \u2064UAW has only \u200cstruck against a single company, with other companies following suit based on the \u200bagreement reached. However, this strike is aimed at all three major U.S. auto companies &#8211; General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis &#8211; but limited to one assembly plant at each manufacturer. This strategic move effectively idles 13,000 workers in Michigan, Ohio, and Missouri, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-slams-texas-campaign-to-keep-title-42-border-policy\/\" title=\"White House Slams Texas' Campaign to Keep Title 42 Border Policy\">causing significant disruptions<\/a> to production.<\/p>\n<p>UAW President Shawn \u200cFain cited bread-and-butter \u200cissues \u200das the main reasons\u2062 for the strike. \u2063According to\u2062 Fain, there is a serious double standard in the country, with \u2062a billionaire class enjoying wealth and luxury while the rest of the working class struggles to make ends \u200dmeet. Fain emphasized that this strike is not just about the UAW but about working people everywhere, urging for a fair share of equity \u200bfor \u200ball.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Fain&#8217;s\u2064 strong statements, he was cautious when asked\u200d about his \u2063conversations with President Biden, explicitly stating that he did not want to discuss politics. This tactful approach suggests a delicate balance \u2062that Fain, as the UAW\u2064 president, must\u2064 maintain while negotiating with the administration.<\/p>\n<p>The strike raises questions about the Biden administration&#8217;s\u2062 ability to manage labor relations effectively and fulfill its promises of\u200d economic prosperity. As the Democrats plan for Biden&#8217;s \u200dre-election campaign, \u2063this unexpected strike serves as a potent reminder that unforeseen challenges and obstacles may threaten their idealized vision of a booming \u200beconomy.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, the UAW strike \u2062against all three\u200d major U.S. auto \u2062companies undermines \u2062the Biden administration&#8217;s claims of a thriving economy and presents a\u2063 significant hurdle for their re-election plans. As the UAW and auto\u2064 companies engage in negotiations, it remains to be seen how this labor conflict will be resolved and what impact it will have on the broader political \u200dlandscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are left disappointed as UAW members from major U.S. auto companies go on strike, despite the Biden administration&#8217;s assurance that it wouldn&#8217;t happen. 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