In a symbolic, photo-op gesture to win union votes, Biden will head to Michigan for a token visit.
Biden to Walk the Picket Line
Taking Sides
CNN had some Interesting comments on Biden Talking Sides.
Jeremi Suri, a presidential historian and professor at University of Texas at Austin, said he doesn’t believe any president has ever visited a picket line during a strike.
Presidents, including Biden, have previously declined to wade into union disputes to avoid the perception of taking sides on issues where the negotiating parties are often engaged in litigation.
On September 15, the day the strike started, Biden said that the automakers “should go further to ensure record corporate profits mean record contracts for the UAW.”
Some Democratic politicians have been urging Biden to do more. California Rep. Ro Khanna on Monday told CNN’s Vanessa Yurkevich that Biden and other Democrats should join him on the picket line.
“I’d love to see the president out here,” he said, arguing the Democratic Party needs to demonstrate it’s “the party of the working class.”
UAW Announces New Strike Locations
As the strike enters a second week, UAW Announces New Strike Locations
UAW President Shawn Fain called for union members to strike at noon ET Friday at 38 General Motors and Stellantis facilities across 20 states. He said the strike call covers all of GM and Stellantis’ parts distribution facilities.
The strike call notably excludes Ford, the third member of Detroit’s Big Three, suggesting the UAW is more satisfied with the progress it has made on a new contract with that company.
General Motors plants being told to strike are in Pontiac, Belleville, Ypsilanti, Burton, Swartz Creek and Lansing, Michigan; West Chester, Ohio; Aurora, Colorado; Hudson, Wisconsin; Bolingbrook, Illinois; Reno, Nevada; Rancho Cucamonga, California; Roanoke, Texas; Martinsburg, West Virginia; Brandon, Mississippi; Charlotte, North Carolina; Memphis, Tennessee; and Lang Horne, Pennsylvania.
The Stellantis facilities going on strike are in Marysville, Center Line, Warren, Auburn Hills, Romulus and Streetsboro, Michigan; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Plymouth, Minnesota; Commerce City, Colorado; Naperville, Illinois; Ontario, California; Beaverton, Oregon; Morrow, Georgia; Winchester, Virginia; Carrollton, Texas; Tappan, New York; and Mansfield, Massachusetts.
Contract Negotiations Are Not Close
Good Luck Getting Repairs
Party of the Working Cass, Really?
Let’s discuss the nonsensical notion that Democrats are the party of the “working class”.
Unnecessary stimulus, reckless expansion of social services, student debt cancellation, eviction moratoriums, earned income credits, immigration policy, and forcing higher prices for all, to benefit the few, are geared towards the “unworking class”.
On top of it, Biden wants to take away your gas stove, end charter schools to protect incompetent union teachers, and force you into an EV that you do not want and for which infrastructure is not in place.
All of this increases inflation across the board as do sanctions and clean energy madness.
Exploring the Working Class Idea
- If you want fewer goods and services and higher taxes to pay for them, Biden is your man: Yet Another Biden Regulation Will Increase Costs and Promote More Inflation
- Biden’s Green Energy Inflation Reduction Act Needs a Big Bailout Already
- The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA did an impact assessment of 4 fuel standard proposals and compared them to the cost of doing nothing. Guess what: The Shocking Truth About Biden’s Proposed Energy Fuel Standards
- Regarding Healthcare: Biden Seeks to End Cheaper Obamacare Alternatives, Expect Another Supreme Court Smackdown
If you don’t work and have no income, Biden may make your healthcare cheaper. If you do work, he seeks to take your healthcare options away.
If you want to pay higher prices for cars, give up your gas stove, be forced into an EV, subsidize wind energy then pay more for electricity on top of it, you have a clear choice. If you support those efforts, by all means, please join him on the picket line for a token photo-op (not that you will be able to get within miles for the staged charade).
But if you can think at all, you understand Biden does not support the working class, he supports the unworking class.
“If you want to pay higher prices for cars, give up your gas stove, be forced into an EV, subsidize wind energy then pay more for electricity on top of it, you have a clear choice.”
Really, Mish? Voting is a “choice”, right? You get, I don’t know, the opportunity to display a symbolic token of a millionth of something, that may mean anything at all, and that’s a “choice”? After being brainwashed constantly for months to pick one of the blue or the red token with the lowest of the low emotional blackmail tricks?
Look, if that is a “choice”, I think the American people have already displayed their opinion about that “choice”. Loudly. You know when. And I think they were trying to say that they are fed up of being pissed on the face, again and again, and be told it’s rain. It’s just that their minds were gagged so that they couldn’t even think it. By those same political campaigns that give them so much “choice”.
The dems have consigned themselves to the fact that the election will not be about nor over anything that they say, do or don’t.
Instead, it will simply be a vote for, or against, Trump.
So: Why not pile up every nugget of crazy they can dream up? That way, if Trump should lose, the Dems can then claim “a mandate” for such doozies as confiscating all fossil fuel in America for the benefit of Al Gore’s jet etc. The indocrinati will be told “they” “voted for it”, after all. And they wouldn’t be the indorinati, if they weren’t reliably indoctrinated to follow Dear Leader, now would they?
No political party who champions an income tax, will ever be a party of any working class. Not in the US, not in any other country nor planet nor universe.
Neither will any political party who champions a central bank with a mandate to; of all things; LIMIT growth in labor wages, while at the same time doing its darndest to do the EXACT OPPOSITE to the price, hence purchasing power of nominal owners, of “assets.” You couldn’t make up something this back asswards, if you tried to…..
Furthermore, any “working class” member too stupid and illiterate to recognise something this obvious is, always and everywhere, flat out stupid enough to deserve neither a job nor a wage.
While any country with a population dumb enough to elect and/or accept a president too dumb to recognise it, is too far gone down the Highway to Dumb, to even warrant “country” status anymore. The world, and everything worth vile in it, would be much better off, if the whole idiot-construct was simply replaced by literally anything else. Even a crater.
Could be worse. The knucklehead Govenor of California is considering offering the striking movie and television writers UNEMPLOYMENT payments while they voluntarily strike.
EACH Presidential trip costs taxpayers around 3.5 million, as far as I tell from a Google search. Plus the logistics in terms of the number of people & vehicles that have to be moved are incredible, just for a Biden photo op!
I also doubt auto company management will be happy with Biden taking sides in their labor dispute.
Just wait for the memes. Shopped pictures of Biden saying, “Hello fellow strikers,” while wearing the feds-at-protest uniform and buzz-cut.
Biden, desperate?
In ’96, I wondered, “Who are these party members?” Both parties published the occupations of their convention attendees, so I looked:
Dems: Government workers – e.g. teachers and desk-jockeys. Excepting cops and military.
Reps: Small biz owners.
Since then, it sure looks like your median working Joe has largely switched from Dem to Rep. Median working (inside job, no heavy lifting) Jill is still Dem, though.
The only core-member change I see is that “climate change” has moved big biz leaders over to the Dems in solidarity with their schooled, anti-any-change brethren in government. And, currently, the “neo-cons” are also switching to the Dems. Which, when seen through boomer eyes, is certainly fascinating!
Biden joining the picket line is all for show. When the rubber actually hit the road, he will side with the corporations. Like he did when he broke the railroad workers’ strike in favor of the railroad barons.
Always remember the promise Biden made to his billionaire donors: “Nothing will fundamentally change”.
After market parts will still be available but the after market stuff ain’t as available or reliable as they used to be. Mechanics joke about the term “new”… actually means Never Ever Worked. NAPA auto parts new acronym – Never Any Parts available.
BTW, anybody taking bets how many times Biden can walk in that circle with the striking workers before he gets confused?
“… before he gets confused?” That’s a trick question right?
Regarding unions and the “working class”…
if a UPS driver makes $150k, what does the term “working class” mean these days?
If we can just keep his handlers convincing him that he’s actually a UAW worker and let him stay on the picket lines. He will do this damage then he will in the oval office. He’s already taken tax payer money and paid off the UAW once. Why not again?
I hope he falls and gets trampled.
Sure Biden will raise the cost of everything.
But think of how morally superior to everyone else you will feel.
Now pardon me while I go demonstrate for reparations for American Indians.
You know, the very early Russian immigrants through Alaska.
How many Democrats have been elected? Thousands. How many Libertarians have been elected? How many fingers do you have? With love ….
Fain talks about getting back to the Democratic Party of the 1960’s. In his podcast he held up a DNC convention pamphlet from the 60’s and the importance of US workers, fairness blah blah…meh.
Everyone knows that era died. The DNC would label that pamphlet today right wing hate speech or more specifically, the Uniparty.
It’s one thing for a strike to prevent sales of new cars. Cutting off parts for repair of existing Big 3 car owners attacks the middle class immediately and will cause some to buy their next car from a manufacturer with more reliable part suppliers.
I suggest going there & telling them to get back to work.
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Democratic Party disgusts me. They abandoned working class and unions more than 30 years ago. They are now the pretend party, they pretend to support working class, but they support only the absurd “woke” liberal insanity: censorship, big brother taking care of you, men competing in women’s sports, pedophilia, pornography for kindergarten and grade school kids, and of course, the WEF agenda of no cars, no meat, and severe population reduction.
and forced “vaccination”.
Take your sedative and calm down. Your tinfoil hat is obviously fallen off.
Both parties are corrupt and full of pandering to Special Interests.
We need Term Limits and Campaign Finance Reform. None of these jokers should be in office longer than a couple of terms.
Get real people in there and not career politicians and certainly not corrupt reality stars. The entire circus needs to be put back into normalcy and get Citizens United overturned so Special Interests can’t buy politicians votes.
I assume you’re talking to “Cuckoo for cocoa puffs” above you.
…. and, YES, YES, YES to this –
“….. Campaign Finance Reform”
For that matter, campaign spending should be given limits, all candidates get the same limits, this way we stop having to sit through hundreds of hours of ridiculous character assassinations.
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That pesky first amendment getting in the way of your great plan.
“Treason, Bribery or other high Crimes”
Alas, a SCOTUS now know to accept favors from pending cases, has decided it’s ok to accept those favors, in lieu of the Constitution.
Bribery is free speech.
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This is a great example of our healthcare system’s failure to help the mentally ill, and for the need to get more Thorazine to the public.
Not to mention all the pedophile cannibals lurking in pizza shop basements …everywhere.
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A Leftist politician protesting with Leftists over a Leftist’s policies that kill Leftists jobs.
It’s like the real life movie Idiocracy.
Just a heads-up to those who assume “inflation’s Biden’s fault” is enough for 2024, Trump has every single GOP candidate cooked, and moderates/independents (me) won’t take another four years of spastic hate & fear mongering.
I’m ok with a walking tree stump if that’s the only alternative.
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My wife and I each drive 20 year old cars. Hers, a Toyota Camry, offers easy access to parts, new or used. My Jaguar roadster, similar but costly … the price of luv at 1st sight !
Bloomberg calculated that 60% of life-cycle cost of a car is in the manufacture & shipping of parts, combined with the assembly & shipping of the car itself.
We maintain our cars for the long haul. I only dared buy my Jag after an expert spent a full day vetting it. Twas after Ford bought in, fixed the electrics & Tata later bought Jag, fixed engines & transmissions.
Nearby “Neighborhood Car Care” – their ONLY business is servicing quality cars for the long term. That’s all they do …
So – the historic 50% of all US Teslas in California seem to us mostly a fashion statement …
Biden will join Shawn Fain, dressed in Egyptian commando fatigue, to preempt the Trump attack.
Shawn Fain precision strikes, not a war, will boost inflation within a few months.
Parts shortages might be felt in Q2 and Q3 2024, when the strike will be over. The big3 are not hurt by the parts distribution strike, but consumers will feel the pain.
I’m glad I bought a Toyota!
How will shutting down the entire system and turning customers away from working peoples products do anything positive for the union???
Oh well, non of these vehicles are engineered to be repaired anyway.
Blew an engine on a 5yr old vehicle last year, coolant hose attachment is made of plastic, it attaches directly to the hot engine , that’s insanely poor engineering…the thermal expansion of plastic is huge compared to steel.
“that was close”………
Biden trumps Trump’s visit this week in Michigan by one day.
Kubuki theater in full regalia this week in Michigan.
And that is why we have no choice. Both Biden and Trump are kowtowing to the unions.
Mish,
Does anyone that is part of the ‘working class’ think that Biden has been a deflationary force for good? Yeah, salaries are going “up”… but when you look at real income compared to gross income, it’s a bit of a joke.
By the way, 3/5 Biden voters that I know have run away in utter disgust from their 2020 vote.
He basically ran on being the moderate and came out as the Barry Bonds version of Obama.
I’m just bewildered that even outlets like Bloomberg, FT, and Barron’s still try to carry the economic water for this administration.
Just a tad bit of objectivity would be appreciated at some point.
It’s incredibly important to ensure workers not make enough to save money after paying for essentials, otherwise trickle-down won’t work.
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All of the manufacturing is going to end up in Mexico. These actions are probably partially related to some sort of wage-price spiral.
To hell with Mexico, Vietnamese workers will build cars for $2 a day, Americans need to accept this and be more competitive.
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They can’t be competitive with salaries + benefits in the $66/hr range and they want that number to go higher.
The sooner these pikers are replaced by automation/robots, the better for the country.
I wonder if the reason that Ford was excluded is because Ford Canada union workers are busy voting on their package right now after tentatively accepting a deal.
If it’s ratified it will be interesting to see what the Ford Auto Workers in Canada got because that will undoubtedly affect what the US workers are going to get.