If they want to join the picket line, that’s great. But don’t let them fool you into thinking they’re pro-labor.
But if they’re “pro-worker” today but anti-labor tomorrow, no one should be fooled. This strike will end, and when it does, there will still be work to do ensuring that workers can collectively bargain to secure fair wages and working conditions.As Democrat Lucas Kunce, who will likely be Hawley’s opponent in 2024, explained, “The big picture here is that there has been an incredible transfer of wealth from working people to the shareholder class.
That’s what’s missing when “pro-worker” Republicans talk about the auto workers’ strike: they might be expressing solidarity with auto workers now, but they don’t seem all that interested in enhancing workers’ rights — especially collective bargaining rights — more generally.criticize the Biden administration
for promoting electric vehicles and other policies to address climate change. That position on EVs is nonsensical: Republicans like Hawley and Vance say EVs are bad because so many of them are built in China, but they haveefforts by President Biden and Democrats to boost production of those same cars and batteries in the United States.They’re selling a fantasy that the transition to EVs can be stopped, which no one — not the workers, not the union and not the car companies — believes.
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