The president inadvertently upset union leaders with brief remarks on Friday, but frictions have since eased.
On Friday, after Biden announced Sperling and Su’s trip, Fain released a statement saying, “Working people are not afraid. You know who’s afraid? The corporate media is afraid. The White House is afraid.” Fain later denied the quote in an interview with reporters that night.But as Trump tries to return to the White House, both Biden and Fain also have strong incentives to work together.
The White House’s defenders expressed frustration with the second-guessing of administration strategy despite Biden’s strong support for union policies generally and the UAW strike specifically. Numerous Democrats said the president has already gone beyond reasonable expectations for demonstrating support through endorsing the UAW’s call for a better wage proposal, and that Biden needs to remain a neutral party to help close negotiations.
“It’s not like it’s done great damage to the economy, but if it goes on for weeks and expands, it really could,” said Dean Baker, an administration ally at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a left-leaning think tank. “As much as he’s made clear he sympathizes with the strikers, he does not want to be seen as partisan.
But as much as Biden may be constrained in how much he can back the UAW, Fain faces similar limits on how much he can back the White House, according to labor experts. The UAW’s, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, for instance, has retweeted scores of Democratic lawmakers who have backed the union’s demands. Those posts, however, don’t risk any confusion over whether the lawmakers are trying to take sides.
“The White House has been a terrific friend to labor, more than any president we know of. But bargaining wins come from bargaining power, which comes from the members of the union. The most critical element of winning is the power of the workers in the strike,” said Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of labor education research at Cornell University, who stressed she had no inside knowledge of the talks.
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