Biden to speak at United Auto Workers
conference as he woos blue-collar vote
in battleground states
Associated Press,
by
Tom Krisher
&
Fatima Hussein
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
1/24/2024 7:50:40 AM
Washington— President Joe Biden will be the keynote speaker Wednesday at a United Auto Workers’ political convention as he works to sway blue-collar workers his way in critical auto-making swing states such as Michigan and Wisconsin.
Biden will speak as the union closes out a three-day gathering in Washington to chart its political priorities but leaders kept mum in advance about whether they will use the moment to endorse the Democrat’s bid for a second term — or hold out longer to try to increase the UAW’s leverage. It will be Biden’s first political event since Tuesday’s primary vote in New Hampshire, where former President Donald Trump cemented his hold
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
MissGrits 1/24/2024 8:08:21 AM (No. 1643142)
Hard to believe he would get a single vote from them. The EV push will ruin the industry! And THEY, of all people, should know it!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
qr4j 1/24/2024 8:11:37 AM (No. 1643144)
Was life better or worse for Union members when Trump was president? The leadership may suck up to Biden. But rank-and-file might answer that question in a way Biden wouldn’t like. I know I would if I were in a Union.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
skacmar 1/24/2024 8:17:04 AM (No. 1643147)
Note that the meeting is with UAW leadership, not the rank and file workers. While many union workers are drones and will vote as the union dictates; I believe that many are awakening to financial reality and will break with the union and vote in their interests, not the unions.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
seamusm 1/24/2024 8:30:38 AM (No. 1643154)
The only UAW people supporting Biden will be its VERY well-paid leaders. These are politically in bed with Dems to maintain their government contracts - regardless of whether jobs are sent overseas or lost in the EV push. (Remember, they should learn to code.) The rank and file are suffering between the anti-fossil fuel imperatives and inflation under BiteMe. I doubt he will dare to have open rallies with the worker bees in the UAW. Trump rallies will be bigger than ever this year.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
red1066 1/24/2024 9:10:16 AM (No. 1643194)
Much like the teacher's unions, the UAW always sends money to demosluts and advocates for them. Trouble is that the unions are not the rank and file. Biteme has done nothing to help the members of these unions except to reduce the number of jobs for them in the U.S. and get those jobs shipped overseas.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/24/2024 9:12:01 AM (No. 1643199)
I hope he tells them to keep building EVs so they can sit in neat little rows at the plant. Maybe someday bookends in your driveway will the the "in" thing to do. Anybody who listens to Joe Biden is as loony as he is.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jdano 1/24/2024 9:34:15 AM (No. 1643225)
Optics. FBI goons dressed in factory worker uniforms.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Venturer 1/24/2024 10:02:21 AM (No. 1643258)
Bidens EV policy has almost driven Ford and Chevrolet out of business from bankruptcy .
Now he wants the automakers Unions to vote for him?
They would be unbelievably stupid to do so.
And yet--------they probably will endorse him.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 1/24/2024 10:08:17 AM (No. 1643266)
The Boob In Chief will do or say something stupid in three...two..
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/24/2024 11:09:25 AM (No. 1643322)
Well Biden and the leftist and socialist Democrats by using mass uncontrolled illegal immigration as a political tool are creating many millions of foreign born future leftist and socialist Democrat supporters and voters, and on top of that millions of poor and uneducated illegal aliens from the Third World who will be competing with US workers, especially minority workers, for available US jobs that they can do. In that respect Biden and the leftist and socialist Democrats believe that they have most US minority workers votes "in the bag" so to speak. With such a glut of cheap foreign workers available to be hired to jobs across the USA there is no doubt that many US employers will hire and use such low wage workers rather than much higher cost US union workers. That's just common sense. No doubt Biden and his crew will want to allow all the illegal aliens foreign families into the USA in due course claiming that the right thing to do is to reunite those foreign origin families in the USA, when that occurs it will multiply the number of cheap foreign workers in the USA available by a factor of maybe 3 to 5. Why would the labor unions want that?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
mc squared 1/24/2024 11:54:19 AM (No. 1643349)
Every time someone buys a Biden-mobile, a UAW worker loses his job.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 1/24/2024 12:01:45 PM (No. 1643355)
He'll tell them about how he will replace them with Mexicans and El Salvador illegals.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 1/24/2024 12:02:07 PM (No. 1643357)
The UAW is thoroughly corrupt, and has been for years. Its members, for the most part, inhabit the left side of the bell curve. They'll keep supporting the UAW until all their jobs are gone because the auto companies declared bankruptcy, reorganized, downsized and kicked the union out of their plants. Then they'll cry about the "scabs" taking their jobs, and about how good they had it when Democrats ran everything. They never change.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
rochow 1/24/2024 3:21:54 PM (No. 1643482)
If they are so dumb to vote for this even dumber vegetable, they deserve to lose their jobs since all the EV's are not selling and Ford is scaling back its workforce.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MickTurn 1/25/2024 1:02:06 PM (No. 1644242)
Biden LIES as usual...Hey UAW. Most of your jobs have been sold out by Joey Briben...and I'm SURE you know that!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
mifla 1/26/2024 7:32:17 AM (No. 1644746)
The Dems told the mine workers that they will close the mines.
The Dems told the pipeline workers that they will shut down the pipeline.
The Dems told the auto workers that they will be forced to make cars no one wants.
Learn to code yet?
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