The powerful United Auto Workers (UAW) formally endorsed Joe Biden’s re-election campaign on Wednesday at the union’s national community action program conference in Washington DC.
Both the US president and rival Donald Trump have courted the union and supported its successful strike action against the US’s big three automakers last year. Biden became the first president to walk a picket line in support of the union.
“Joe Biden bet on the American worker while Donald Trump blamed the American worker,” UAW president, Shawn Fain told the conference. “If our endorsement must be earned, Joe Biden has earned it.
“Donald Trump is a scab. Donald Trump is a billionaire and that’s who he represents,” Fain said. “This election is about who will stand up with us and who will stand in our way.”
I think for union duties him being so hardline works. I think in a more formal political scene that would be more problematic regardless of which “side” he was on.
We need people that can and are willing to work together and solve problems. Not “my way or the highway” mentality
Of course, this is my opinion.
The left could use more of the my way or the highway. We (our representatives) have let the right pull us towards their insanity in the name of “working together”. Hopefully we get enough control back this election that we can stop playing footsie with them and tell then to sit down, shut up and let the adults take care of things.
His ‘my way or the highway’ is for making up for past shitty compromises to bring things up to where the workers should be. There are still compromises, just not always in favor of the companies.
“Now shut up and vote how we order you to” - current Democrats.