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Bernie Sanders at UAW rally: ‘The common American employee right now is worse off than she or he was 50 years in the past’

“Regardless of file breaking company income, regardless of company America spending tons of of billions on dividends and inventory buybacks, the common American employee right now is worse off than she or he was 50 years in the past,” stated Sanders.

“Brothers and sisters, that’s precisely what this strike is all about,” he added.

The UAW said it plans to resume contract negotiations on Saturday after 12,700 workers walked out of three factories run and owned by GM, Ford, and Stellantis, the Chrysler parent company, according to Reuters.

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The previous contract between the union and the automakers expired at midnight on Thursday. Speaking from the White House, President Biden urged both sides to return to the bargaining table. The automakers’ previous contract expired at 11:59pm ET on Thursday.

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“It is totally reasonable for autoworkers to finally receive a fair share of the record breaking profits,” said Sanders.

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“The time is long overdue to end the disastrous two-tier system. It means finally ending the use of temporary workers and very importantly, it means that every auto worker receives a decent pension so they can retire with dignity,” he continued, explaining the significance of the strikes.

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“It means as we combat climate change, the existential threat of climate change, you’re trying to make sure that this planet is healthy and habitable for our kids. That when the auto industry builds new electric vehicles and battery plants, it means that the workers in those plants become part of the UAW and receive the same wages and benefits as union members.

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Brothers and sisters, the CEOs of General Motors, Ford and Stellantis and their major stockholders on Wall Street have got to understand, they cannot have it all.

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We refuse to live in an oligarchy. We refuse to accept a society in which so few have so much and so many have so little. Brothers and sisters, enough is enough!” he said.

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“Despite record breaking corporate profits, despite corporate America spending hundreds of billions on dividends and stock buybacks, the average American worker today is worse off than he or she was 50 years ago,” said Sanders.

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“Brothers and sisters, that is exactly what this strike is all about,” he added.

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UAW members are set to host a rally at the UAW-Ford National Programs Center in Detroit at 5pm ET where Vermont senator and vocal union supporter Bernie Sanders is set to make an appearance.

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We will have a live feed of the rally and will bring you the latest updates.

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Other politicians that are voicing their support for UAW workers include Massachusetts’s senator Elizabeth Warren, representative Ayanna Pressley and New Jersey senator Cory Booker.

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On Friday, Warren wrote:

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“@Ford, @GM and @Stellantis have raked in record profits for years. I stand in solidarity with @UAW workers striking for wages and benefits that reflect the work they do.”

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Meanwhile, Pressley said:

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“Organized power is realized power & our movement for workers’ justice is stronger than ever.”

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Booker, who said that his grandfather used to work on an assembly line in Detroit, said that he is confident that UAW will achieve a deal with auto companies.

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“My grandfather worked on an assembly line in Detroit, and fought for his fellow workers as a UAW union rep. He would be proud of the UAW members striking today. I stand with them & am confident they will achieve a deal that lifts up workers, their families, and their communities,” Booker wrote.

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Rashida Tlaib, a Democratic representative of Michigan, has also thrown her support behind UAW auto workers, many of whom are striking in her state.

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In a tweet on Friday, Tlaib wrote:

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“Workers are asking to be valued. They shouldn’t have to beg BCBS MI. They are making billions and shouldn’t leave their workers struggling.”

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In an earlier message to Congress, Tlaib said, “They have record profits and that should result in record contracts” and urged for stronger contracts for auto workers.

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Ohio’s Democratic senator Sherrod Brown showed up at the auto strikes outside the Toledo Jeep plant on Friday in a show of solidarity with the striking workers.

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“The ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay in this plant is 365 to 1, and they’re telling workers to keep making these concessions?” Brown told reporters.

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“I don’t care what they’re paid, as long as workers here are paid well. ” Brown said, referring to the auto companies’ CEOs.

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“CEOs make that kind of money, 20 or 30 million a year, but you know, they’re making that kind of money and not only won’t settle – I know negotiations are tough – but they won’t even offer a serious legitimate proposal for a contract to this union,” he added.

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Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has voiced his support for the striking auto workers across the country.

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“I stand with courageous @UAW workers as they go out on strike. Their fight for a just economy is our fight. Solidarity forever,” Sanders tweeted on Friday.

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“I really applaud the courage of Shawn Fain and the workers of at the UAW for standing up and saying, ‘You know what? Enough is enough.’ We need an economy that works for everybody. Not just the people on top,” Sanders added.

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Sanders is set to appear at a rally alongside UAW president Shawn Fain at the UAW-Ford National Programs Center in Detroit this afternoon.

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Ford CEO Jim Farley briefly stopped by to meet with picketers outside the Wayne, Michigan plant.

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Several workers near retirement weren’t particularly impressed by the gesture. He makes $29m a year, they noted, while hourly workers are “fighting to get money to survive after we leave here”.

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“How many years do we even have left to live after we retire? 10 years?” asked worker Stu Jackson, who highlighted the toll factory work exacts on workers’ bodies and health.

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The UAW gave up major concessions during the 2009 recession, but executives like Farley have yet to repay the union now that the industry is once again booming, said Terrance Pope.

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“They forgot about us and it is time for them to give back,” Pope added.

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Until that happens, Farley’s presence is meaningless and perhaps insulting, they said.

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“Did you see Farley in his tailored European suit? Wasn’t he sharp?” Jackson asked. “He looks like the $29m dollar man. Those nice shoes.”

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“And look at us,” Jackson added indignantly, motioning to the small group dressed in jeans, t-shirts and sweatpants. “This isn’t fair.”

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The UAW’s Twitter account was stripped of its blue verification check shortly after the the UAW strikes began, a UAW official told the Intercept.

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According to the official, the UAW’s verified account, which the union paid for, was verified until Friday morning when the blue verification check was no longer there.

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A screenshot of the UAW’s Twitter account showed the missing blue icon next to UAW’s Twitter handle.

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The Intercept reports that the UAW’s blue check was restored once again after its initial story of the removed verification began circulating online.

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As of Friday afternoon, the verification icon can be seen alongside the union’s handle.

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“Class solidarity among the nation’s elite has long been a feature of the American political economy, and the move by Musk, the richest man on the planet, is in line with that sense of allegiance, even as he promotes himself as a populist friend of the working man,” the Intercept reports.

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“Musk is also the owner of a non-union automaker, Tesla. Wage increases won by union workers often trickle down, so to speak, to non-union workers, requiring even bosses like Musk to pay workers more from his share of profits. That gives Musk a direct financial incentive to help break the strike, even beyond whatever ideological affinity he may have with the capitalist class,” it added.

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Musk, a vocal opponent of unions, previously dared the UAW to try and unionize Tesla workers.

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Last March, the billionaire CEO tweeted, “I’d like hereby to invite UAW to hold a union vote at their convenience. Tesla will do nothing to stop them.”

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In brief remarks on Wednesday, Joe Biden said that auto companies should “go further” in their negotiations with striking workers.

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“The companies have made some significant offers. But I believe that should go further to ensure record corporate profits mean record contracts,” he said.

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“Record corporate profits, which they have, should be shared by record contracts for the UAW,” Biden reiterated.

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“Just as we’re building an economy of the future, we need labor agreements for future,” he continued.

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Biden, who has previously declared himself as the “most pro-union president,” said during his remarks that “strong unions are critical to growing the economy and growing from the middle out, bottom up, not the top down.”

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“I believe that transition should be fair and a win-win for auto workers and auto companies. But I also believe contract agreements must lead to a vibrant…America…that promotes good strong middle class jobs,” he said.

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Biden also announced that he is dispatching deputy labor secretary Julie Su and White House senior advisor Gene Sperling to Detroit as part of the White House’s effort to continue its “active engagement” in the negotiations.

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Biden appeared to support the strikers in strong comments made during his White House address:

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The president said: “Record corporate profits … should be shared by record contracts for the UAW.”

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He also expressed regret that the strike had not been averted but urged both parties to return to the negotiating table:

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“No one wants a strike but I respect workers’ rights to use their options under the collective bargaining system and understand their frustrations,” said Biden.

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“I do appreciate that the parties have been working around the clock … It is my hope that the parties can return to the negotiating table to forge a win-win agreement,” he added.

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Biden will soon give remarks about the UAW strike, Reuters reports.

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Biden will make his remarks on the strike from the White House’s Roosevelt room, which were originally scheduled for 11.30 am ET.

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A live stream of the speech will be available on this blog.

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Stay tuned for coming updates.

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Biden is expected to send aide Gene Sperling and acting labor secretary Julie Su to Detroit given the auto strike, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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Sperling and Su are expected to help aid in negotiations between UAW workers and auto manufacturers, as workers began a historic strike on Friday at midnight, WSJ reported citing two people familiar with the plan.

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Per the WSJ:

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Sperling and Su, who have been in daily touch with the UAW and auto companies in recent weeks, won’t be directly involved in the negotiations or playing the role of a mediator, the people said.

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The trip comes as Biden is expected to give remarks on Friday about the strike from the White House, Reuters reports.

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The CEO of General Motors, Mary Barra, has come out with fighting words over the start of the auto workers’ strike, saying she is “extremely frustrated and disappointed” that industrial action has begun and warning that the walkout would harm employees, their families and the economy.

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Speaking to CNBC, Barra, who has headed GM since 2014, called the concessions being offered by the Detroit three carmakers targetted by the strike “generous” and “historic”. They amounted to over 20% wage increases, she said, on top of job security and “world-class health care” which combined was “the most significant offer we’ve had in our 115-year history”.

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Se added: “We didn’t have to be here”.

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Some 3,600 GM workers belonging to the United Auto Workers (UAW) union walked out of the carmaker’s Wentzville, Missouri plant at midnight on Thursday, part of the total of 12,700 who are out across three plants in the first stage of the strike. The Wentzville plant builds the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon midsize trucks as well as cargo vans, which are among GM’s most popular models.

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Sounding a gloomy note, Barra told CNBC that “this is not going to be positive from an industry perspective or for GM”. She said that she thought the strike could be resolved quickly, but warned that its impact could be felt immediately, with painful consequences.

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“We need to get there fast because this is not good for our employees, for the communities and their families. For every GM job there are six other jobs in the economy that depend on us running, so we’ve got to get back to work.”

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The latest UAW strike is the largest auto strike to happen in decades. But why is it happening now?

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Here’s an explainer from the Guardian’s Michael Sainato.

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…Why is it happening?

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The union argues that autoworkers have never been fully compensated for the sacrifices they made after the 2008-09 financial crisis when they agreed to a raft of cuts to save the industry. The automakers received huge bailouts and soon returned to record profits.

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Workers are pushing for at least a 40% wage increase over four years in a new contract, an end to two-tier wage systems in which new hires are paid significantly less for doing the same work, an increase to benefits for retirees and return of a defined pension instead of a 401k, reinstatement of cost of living adjustment raises, a 32-hour workweek, job security protections and protections for workers affected by plant closures.

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The United Auto Workers (UAW) president, Shawn Fain, was elected to head the union as part of a reform campaign within its ranks, aimed particularly at taking a more aggressive approach toward bargaining with automakers after workers had taken concessions amid auto bankruptcies during the 2008 economic recession and have yet to regain those concessions and share in the quarter of a trillion dollars in profit the big three automakers have made in the last decade.

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How did the strike begin?

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In late August, the UAW, which represents the workers at the big three automakers in the US, announced membership voted about 97% in favor of the strike authorization. The union has never gone on strike at the big three automakers simultaneously…

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Read the full article here.

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Good morning.

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About 13,000 members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) began striking on Friday at 12.00am ET after automakers failed to negotiate a new contract to meet worker demands.

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The amount of workers on strike is only a fraction of the 150,000 total members of the UAW, but UAW officials say the strike could expand if negotiation talks continue to fail.

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The strike is the first one in the 88-year history of the UAW, after negotiations around wage increases, pension, and other union demands broke down.

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“If we need to go all out, we will,” UAW president Shawn Fain said, adding that company-wide strikes are not off the table if new contracts cannot be negotiated, CBS News reported.

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Here’s more on the historic picket:

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  • General Motors CEO Mary Barra told CNBC on Friday that she was “extremely frustrated and disappointed” by the walkout, adding that the company was ready to keep negotiations open.

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  • The automakers on strike come from three major Midwest-based plants owned by General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis, the parent company of Chrysler.

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  • Joe Biden will speak on the strike later today. Biden spoke with Fain and autoworkers before the strike deadline, Bloomberg reported.

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Stay tuned for more updates.

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Key occasions

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That’s it for our stay protection of the strike right now. Keep tuned for extra information and tales from my colleagues.

Key occasions:

  • About 13,000 UAW employees from GM, Ford and Chrysler-parent firm Stellantis went on strike after strolling away from the contract bargaining desk. The present contract expired at midnight on Thursday.

  • Normal Motors CEO hit again at strikers for rejecting ‘most vital supply’ in 115 years saying she was “extraordinarily pissed off and dissatisfied”.

  • President Joe Biden dispatched two aides, Gene Sperling and performing labor secretary Julie Su to Detroit to assist transfer alongside negotiations and he urged each side to return to the bargaining desk. In remarks given from the White Home, Biden stated that “nobody needs a strike” however he believed “file company income … needs to be shared by file contracts for the UAW”. “The businesses have made some important affords. However I imagine that ought to go additional to make sure file company income imply file contracts,” he stated.

  • The UAW’s Twitter account was briefly stripped of its blue verification test shortly after the the UAW strikes started, a UAW official told the Intercept. The Intercept reviews that the UAW’s blue test was restored as soon as once more after its preliminary story of the eliminated verification started circulating on-line.

  • UAW employees acquired wide-ranging assist from members of congress together with Bernie Sanders, Rashida Tlaib, Elizabeth Warren and Ohio senator Sherrod Brown. “It’s completely affordable for autoworkers to lastly obtain a justifiable share of the file breaking income,” stated Sanders.

  • Tensions from the strike escalated after GM introduced it anticipated to idle a non-striking plant as a result of it could quickly run out of elements produced by a placing plant and provides 2,000 employees momentary unemployment. Ford additionally stated it could quickly layoff 600 employees.

  • The UAW introduced it could resume bargaining talks on Saturday, in response to Reuters.

UAW plans to return to bargaining desk on Saturday

The UAW stated it plans to renew contract negotiations on Saturday after 12,700 employees walked out of three factories run and owned by GM, Ford, and Stellantis, the Chrysler father or mother firm, according to Reuters.

The earlier contract between the union and the automakers expired at midnight on Thursday. Talking from the White Home, President Biden urged each side to return to the bargaining desk. The automakers’ previous contract expired at 11:59pm ET on Thursday.

Normal Motors stated it expects to quickly pause operations at a non-striking plant in Kansas and put 2,000 non-striking employees on momentary unemployment as a result of the plant is anticipated to expire of elements, according to the Washington Post.

GM stated the employees won’t get the total slate of unemployment advantages they might usually get as a result of they’re engaged on an expired contract. Ford additionally expects to quickly lay off 600 employees.

“We’ve stated repeatedly that no person wins in a strike and that results go properly past our staff on the plant flooring and negatively influence our prospects, suppliers and the communities the place we do enterprise,” GM advised the Washington Put up in an announcement.

Listed below are some photographs coming via the newswires of the UAW rally in Detroit, Michigan, the place union representatives and lawmakers together with senator Bernie Sanders and governor Gretchen Whitmer took the stage:

United Auto Employees members attend a rally in Detroit. The UAW is conducting a strike towards Ford, Stellantis and Normal Motors. {Photograph}: Paul Sancya/AP
United Auto Workers from Louisville, Kentucky, rally in support of striking UAW members, in Detroit, Michigan.
United Auto Employees from Louisville, Kentucky, rally in assist of placing UAW members, in Detroit, Michigan. {Photograph}: Rebecca Prepare dinner/Reuters
Senator Bernie Sanders speaks to hundreds of United Auto Workers members at a rally.
Senator Bernie Sanders speaks to tons of of United Auto Employees members at a rally. {Photograph}: Eric Cox/Reuters
The UAW is conducting a strike against Ford, Stellantis and General Motors.
The UAW is conducting a strike towards Ford, Stellantis and Normal Motors. {Photograph}: Paul Sancya/AP

Bernie Sanders at UAW rally: “We refuse to stay in an oligarchy.”

“It’s completely affordable for autoworkers to lastly obtain a justifiable share of the file breaking income,” stated Sanders.

“The time is lengthy overdue to finish the disastrous two-tier system. It means lastly ending using momentary employees and really importantly, it signifies that each auto employee receives a good pension to allow them to retire with dignity,” he continued, explaining the importance of the strikes.

“It means as we fight local weather change, the existential risk of local weather change, you’re making an attempt to be sure that this planet is wholesome and liveable for our youngsters. That when the auto trade builds new electrical autos and battery crops, it signifies that the employees in these crops turn out to be a part of the UAW and obtain the identical wages and advantages as union members.

Brothers and sisters, the CEOs of Normal Motors, Ford and Stellantis and their main stockholders on Wall Avenue have gotten to know, they can’t have all of it.

We refuse to stay in an oligarchy. We refuse to simply accept a society by which so few have a lot and so many have so little. Brothers and sisters, sufficient is sufficient!” he stated.

“I learn loads within the media about how a strike goes to be dangerous for the financial system. Properly let me inform you one thing in regards to the financial system,” stated Sanders.

“When you’ve auto employees who can not afford to purchase the automobiles, that’s dangerous for the financial system.

When you’ve auto employees who can’t afford to take out a mortgage to purchase a modest house, that’s dangerous for the financial system.

When you’ve auto employees who can’t afford childcare or to avoid wasting as much as ship their children to varsity, that’s dangerous for the financial system.

When you’ve auto employees who can’t afford prescribed drugs, can’t afford healthcare, that’s dangerous for the financial system,” he continued.

“We won’t settle for that over the past 20 years, the common wage for American auto employees has decreased by 30% after adjusting for inflation,” stated Sanders.

“You’re eager to know why you’re out on strike proper now, that’s the explanation,” he continued.

Sanders additionally addressed Ford CEO Jim Farley, saying:

Mr Farley, final 12 months, you made almost $21m in complete compensation and my guess is that if you retire out of your job, you’re going to have an incredible compensation … and every kind of advantages.

Do you’ve any clue as to what it’s prefer to be a employee getting older, having labored your total life and never having any cash within the financial institution as you put together for retirement?”

Sanders additionally addressed the CEO of Stellantis, Carlos Tavares, saying:

Have you learnt, Mr Tavares, what it’s prefer to be categorised as a temp and regardless of working 12 months after 12 months, you’ll stay a temp, receiving wages and advantages considerably decrease than your brothers and sisters doing the identical precise work?

Mr Tavares, do you’ve any clue what that’s about?”

“Do you’ve any clue clue what it’s like for one among your employees to try to survive on $17 an hour, which is the common beginning wage of an car employee?” Sanders stated in his remarks, addressing Normal Motors CEO Mary Barra.

“Have you learnt, Miss Barra, what it’s prefer to try to increase a household, put meals on the desk and pay hire if you’re making $20 bucks an hour?” he continued.

“Within the final 50 years, there was an enormous redistribution of wealth. The issue is it’s gone within the unsuitable route,” stated Sanders.

“As an alternative of going from the highest all the way down to the underside, it’s going from the underside as much as the highest … we’re going to reverse that pattern,” he continued.

“If the ruling class of this nation needs a redistribution of wealth, we’re going to present it to them,” he added.

Bernie Sanders at UAW rally: ‘The common American employee right now is worse off than she or he was 50 years in the past’

“Regardless of file breaking company income, regardless of company America spending tons of of billions on dividends and inventory buybacks, the common American employee right now is worse off than she or he was 50 years in the past,” stated Sanders.

“Brothers and sisters, that’s precisely what this strike is all about,” he added.

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