United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain, left, listens as President Joe Biden speaks to striking UAW members outside a General Motors facility on Sept. 26, 2023, in Van Buren Township, Michigan.President Joe Biden called the head of the United Auto Workers union to congratulate him this past week on getting a new contract with General Motors and to wish him a happy 55th birthday – a sign of how the relationship had evolved since their first get-to-know-you meeting in the Oval Office on July 19.
The UAW declined to talk about its relationship with the White House. No final decision on the endorsement is expected to come until after contracts with the auto makers are finalized, which probably will happen later this month. As the weeks stretched on, though, Biden and his team did less straddling and publicly stepped ever closer to the union.
But union households have also been a decisive constituency for Democrats. They represent only 16% of voters nationwide, but Biden won the group by a solid 56% in 2020, according to AP VoteCast, a national survey of the electorate. “I’m not worried about a strike until it happens,” Biden said on Sept. 4. ”I don’t think it’s going to happen.”
But the UAW did not want administration officials to come during the first week of the strike, Sperling said, because of the message it might send about the status of negotiations. By that point, there was enough trust that the misunderstanding did little from the White House perspective to hurt the relationship. Sperling and Su met twice in-person that next week with the negotiators.
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