{"id":48844,"date":"2023-05-04T00:03:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T04:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=48844"},"modified":"2023-05-04T00:03:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T04:03:09","slug":"uaw-not-yet-endorsing-biden-for-second-term-citing-ev-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=48844","title":{"rendered":"UAW not yet endorsing Biden for second term, citing EV policies – Autoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 United Auto Workers<\/a> (UAW<\/a>) President Shawn Fain said the Detroit-based union is not yet endorsing President Joe Biden<\/a> for a second term, citing concerns about electric vehicle<\/a> policies.<\/p>\n

In a letter to members seen by Reuters on Wednesday, Fain noted several national unions were quick to endorse Biden but the UAW is not yet doing so.<\/p>\n

“The federal government is pouring billions into the electric vehicle transition, with no strings attached and no commitment to workers. The EV transition is at serious risk of becoming a race to the bottom. We want to see national leadership have our back on this before we make any commitments,” Fain said.<\/p>\n

Biden’s campaign did not immediately comment.<\/p>\n

The new UAW president was in Washington last week and met with White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients and many lawmakers.<\/p>\n

Fain and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday criticized a General Motors<\/a> joint venture battery<\/a> plant for paying workers much less than assembly plant employees even though it benefits from hefty U.S. government tax credits.<\/p>\n

Workers at the Warren, Ohio, joint venture Ultium Cells plant near Lordstown<\/a> start at $16.50 an hour rising to $20 an hour after seven years while union workers at a nearby Ohio GM<\/a> assembly plant that closed in 2019 made $32 an hour or more.<\/p>\n

“The situation at Lordstown, and the current state of the EV transition, is unacceptable. We expect action from the people in power to make it right,” Fain said.<\/p>\n

Fain said the Ultium plant at full production will receive more than $1.2 billion a year in U.S. battery production tax credits.<\/p>\n

The letter noted that the UAW will enter contract talks on behalf of 150,000 workers at General Motors, Ford<\/a> Motor and Chrysler-parent Stellantis. Fain said the Detroit Three “are making record profits while workers get left behind. We\u2019ll stand with whoever stands with our members in that fight.”<\/p>\n

Fain said the union will be “ready to talk politics once we secure a future for this industry and the workers who make it run.” He said “another Donald Trump presidency would be a disaster. But our members need to see an alternative that delivers real results.”<\/p>\n

GM opened with partner LG Energy Solution the Ultium battery manufacturing plant in August 2022 in Ohio; the pair are building two other JV battery plants in Michigan and Tennessee.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain said the Detroit-based union is not yet endorsing President Joe Biden for a second term, citing concerns about electric vehicle policies. In a letter to members seen by Reuters on Wednesday, Fain noted several national unions were quick to endorse Biden but the UAW is not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}