The Auto Workers the unions and the future of the country now United Auto Workers UAW they’re one of the largest Auto worker unions in America they’re currently on strike with demands including 40 percent wage increases four-day work weeks you know it’s the usual demands from the unions that they make against the industries
But this time something else is happening president Donald Trump began calling on the union to endorse him or vote out their own union leaders on the same night that other Republican candidates for the 2024 elections held their next debate Trump announced he would hold a speech to Auto Workers in Detroit
Thereby squashing a lot of the viewership of the Republican debates and bringing the attention to this instead of what’s happening with the Union protest taking place right now soon after this President Joe Biden also announced he would head to Detroit scheduled for the day before Trump’s speech interestingly and this
Transformed the union protests into a focal point of the whole country’s political debate around what’s happening there now when Joe Biden landed he was cautiously praised by The Establishment media for making history for the first time an American president picketed alongside the union and they were cautious in their praise for one key
Reason he faces embarrassment if he doesn’t get the union endorsement and the Optics of this also blur the line between the unions and the state now we had our own reporters on the ground I went there as well and what unfolded Lisa the Biden speech was honestly a bit strange Biden’s event was
First announced on one location but then switched to another the Press supporters protesters they went and waited for Biden to arrive only to find he changed locations instead of going to where he was originally said to go he went to a more private event and there he was
Joined by around 20 people or so with a apparent uniforms and uniform ideas mainly around him he picketed alongside the unions but it was in front of the Union leadership and also in front of a curated group of news reporters from the White House Press pool here’s what Biden had to say [Applause]
Senator since 1973 but I tell you what first time I’ve ever done it as a president observe this the significant race you need and other benefits [Applause] now Biden that did something else he introduced UAW president Sean faine the union leader here’s what he had to say USA president
All right has came out and stood on the picket line [Applause] our presidents chose to stand up with workers in our fight for economic and social justice you know it’s about the Auto Workers who are part of the fabric of the working class of this country
For the people that make the world run it’s not the billionaire class not the elite View it’s the working class of the billions of people who have been left behind that’s what this battle is about changing that now there’s a few ways to view this on one side the people on the
Ground the union workers they actually did seem to appreciate Biden’s support for them Biden showing up alongside the heads of their Union seem to suggest that their demands are in the bag the president of the United States is backing their pay raises in shorter work days but for others it actually meant
Something else the future of their own industry might be at stake as the union seems to be aligning with stated political goals from Biden against the automotive industry itself at the very least against gas cars and for many of them you know even those who were said that said they were Democrats there
Really was a very noticeable concern that soon electric vehicles are going to destroy the factories that make the engines and many other car parts and those jobs are going to be moved to other the countries they’re not going to be American instead they’re likely going
To head to China which has a monopoly on batteries and key materials for for the electric vehicle industry now front of mind for a lot of them was Biden’s executive order from August of 2021. that was when he set a new Target to make half of all new vehicles sold in
America electric cars by 2030. when the New York Times framed the story at the time it noted that Biden was pushing to quote phase out gas cars and for these Auto Workers those gas cars are their livelihood the industry that their fathers and grandfathers worked in in an
Industry as well that some of them told us that their children you know hope are hoping to work in as well that’s going to get siphoned off so yesterday I went to I went to Detroit to talk to people on the ground and hear what their thoughts were on what’s
Happening the first person I spoke with on this was picketing outside of mopar headquarters he works as a machine operator in the plant that makes many of the car parts that electric vehicles would then render Obsolete and for him the focus is more on jobs really with
All this and more on the wants for the union demands and really more and better pay for the rank and file but despite this and despite saying that he would really I think align with Democrats essentially the concern over the future of the industry was still very much real
All the cars might be made in China if everything is going the way it’s going and we don’t want the jobs to leave here if you turn everything into EV 30 of these people are gone because you don’t need uh you don’t need the engines you don’t need the transits I didn’t think
About it yeah you don’t need none of that so all the employees that were sitting at assembly line are all them being gone you’re going to have a shell go on top of a battery no different than the golf cart so you’re going to be
Losing 40 40 40 50 of your Workforce Now around the other side of the building was another group of picketers and these ones were marching with signs blocking an entrance and exit to the building cars are some of the employees that they brought in to replace them were trapped
For a little bit in the company parking lot which the union members held up a bit before letting go with a few shouts as they left we want a wage increase we haven’t had a wage increase in years and the prices is going up and our wages are staying the same
We want a cola cost of living we would like to get that back which we gave up during that 2009 during that recession now that was the picketers of course the tone was a lot different at the Trump event but really politics aside and partisanship aside the core concerns between them was
Actually very similar concerns the industry is about to go away worries the jobs are going to be shipped elsewhere the threat of electric vehicles the future of cars that they make the Monopoly of China over whether really politics is going to take over this whole thing from them
Now we’ll talk more about the concerns of the Auto Workers and also Trump’s speech in Detroit all of this still after the break well everyone that’s it for YouTube for the rest of the episode come join us on Epic TV I’ll show you my my on the ground reporting in Detroit and at
Trump’s speech to the Auto Workers we’ll also be talking about the Biden impeachment inquiry what happened today with that as well important stuff and again that’s on Epic TV epochtv.com I’ll see you there people from 160 countries and legally cross the U.S Mexico border and get themselves up
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