From establishment types to progressives, Democrats are coming out in droves to support UAW workers after the country’s largest auto union began a historic strike.
About 13,000 UAW auto workers at factories in Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio began striking on Friday after contract negotiations reached a stalemate. The union, which represents some 150,000 workers with General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis, the company that took over Chrysler’s operations, marks the first work stoppage involving all three automakers.“It’s time to decide what side you’re on,” Sen. John Fetterman , a staunch progressive, said in a statement on the strike.
Sen. Bob Casey , Fetterman's home-state colleague who is up for reelection next year, also issued a wholehearted defense of the striking workers. Casey noted in a Friday statement that, “When the auto industry was struggling, UAW members voluntarily reduced their benefits to help these companies survive, and when the industry collapsed during the financial crisis, taxpayers bailed them out.
Some House and Senate lawmakers were on the picket lines outside factories across the country on Friday.
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