President Biden looked on approvingly and fist pumped as the head of the striking United Auto Workers union on Tuesday compared top automotive executives to the Axis powers in World War Two.
outside General Motors’ Willow Run parts center as UAW President Shawn Fain ranted against “corporate greed,” likening his union’s strike against the “Big Three” automakers – Ford, General Motors and Stellantis – to the collective US effort to manufacture military equipment for the Allies during World War Two.
Fain, on his bullhorn, noted that the parts center outside Detroit was previously part of the country’s so-called “arsenal of democracy,” and the site where Ford assembly line workers put together B-24 Liberator bombers for the war effort. . “It’s a different kind of arsenal of democracy, and it’s a different kind of war we’re fighting.”“It’s corporate greed, and the weapon we produce to fight that enemy is the liberators, the true liberators.
President Joe Biden at the picket line of a UAW strike outside GM’s Willow Run Distribution Center in Belleville, Michigan on Sept. 26, 2023.Biden looked on as UAW President Shawn Fain compared the Big 3 auto executives to WWII Axis powers.“Wall Street didn’t build the country — the middle class built the country,” Biden told the picketers after taking the bullhorn from Fain. “Unions built the middle class.
“So, let’s keep going. You deserve what you’ve earned and you’ve earned a hell of a lot more than you’re getting paid now,” he added.
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