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Auto Workers Strike Threatens Biden's Green Coalition
TIME
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9/15/2023
Unionized auto workers walked off the job and went on strike Friday to pressure three major automotive plants into raising wages in an era of big profits and as the industry begins a costly transition to electric vehicles.
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00:00
We are the union.
00:01
We are the union.
00:03
A mighty, mighty union.
00:05
Mighty, mighty union.
00:07
[HORN BLOWING]
00:10
No second class!
00:18
[HORN BLOWING]
00:22
[HORN BLOWING]
00:28
For the past 24 hours, we've been actively bargaining
00:32
with Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis.
00:37
For the first time in our union's history,
00:40
we had all three companies bargaining right here
00:43
at the Solidarity House, leading into the final hours
00:46
of our strike deadline.
00:49
We've been working hard trying to reach
00:51
a deal for economic and social justice for our members.
00:55
Midnight on the evening of September 14 is a deadline.
01:01
UAW family, that deadline is nearly here.
01:06
Tonight, for the first time in our history,
01:09
we will strike all three of the big three at once.
01:13
This strategy will keep the companies guessing.
01:17
It will give our national negotiators maximum leverage
01:21
and flexibility in bargaining.
01:23
And if we need to go all out, we will.
01:26
[HORN BLOWING]
01:30
I didn't think this was going to happen.
01:32
I'm really happy that everybody stood together
01:34
and it was a unanimous kind of thing to strike.
01:38
Let's be clear.
01:42
No one wants a strike.
01:44
Say it again.
01:44
No one wants a strike.
01:46
But I respect workers' right to use their options
01:48
under the collective bargaining system.
01:50
And I understand the workers' frustration.
01:53
Over generations, auto workers sacrificed so much
01:55
to keep the industry alive and strong,
01:57
especially through the economic crisis and the pandemic.
02:00
Workers deserve a fair share of the benefits
02:03
they helped create for an enterprise.
02:04
It's my hope that the parties can return to the negotiation
02:07
table to forge a win-win agreement,
02:10
to continue our active engagement.
02:12
I'm dispatching two members of my team
02:15
to Detroit, Acting Labor Secretary Julie
02:17
Hsu and White House Senior Advisor Jean Sperling.
02:20
Both of them have been involved up to now.
02:22
To offer their full support for the parties
02:24
in reaching a contract.
02:26
The bottom line is that auto workers
02:28
helped create America's middle class.
02:30
They deserve a contract that sustains them
02:34
in the middle class.
02:36
(upbeat music)
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