DETROIT (AP) — As his Republican rivals gather onstage in California for their second primary debate, former President Donald Trump will be in battleground Michigan on Wednesday night working to win over blue-collar voters in the midst of an autoworkers’ strike. The Republican front-runner’s trip comes a day after President Joe Biden became the first sitting president in U.S. history to walk a picket line...
higher wages, shorter work weeks and assurances from the country’s top automakers that new electric vehicle jobs will be unionized.
The former president has tried to capitalize on the strike to drive a wedge between Biden and union workers, a constituency that helped pave the way for his surprise 2016 victory. Trump in that election won over voters in Democratic strongholds like Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, fundamentally reshaping voting alliances as he railed against global trade deals and vowed to resurrect dying manufacturing towns.
While Trump has cast himself as pro-worker, he has clashed repeatedly with union leadership and tried to turn union members against their leaders. In a recent campaign video, he urged autoworkers not to pay union dues and claimed their leaders have “got some deals going for themselves.” “I WILL KEEP YOUR JOBS AND MAKE YOU RICH!!!” he has told them.
Union leaders know the transition to electric vehicles is coming, but whether new battery manufacturing plants will be unionized is a major UAW concern in contract negotiations. They say solidifying the union’s role in the auto industry’s clean energy future will ensure higher wages and job security.
Trump has not weighed in on the union’s proposal, but aides insist its rank-and-file members “are in a much different place than their political leaders.”
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