Biden makes appeal to unions as possible UAW strike looms over 2024 reelection bid

President Joe Biden is making his pitch to union members as a possible labor strike threatens to upset both the economy and his 2024 reelection bid.

Biden's latest appeal to labor unions comes after the United Auto Workers lodged complaints against Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis over unfair wages and pensions, and voted in favor of a strike at the Detroit Three automakers if their demands are not met by the end of their four-year contract, which expires on Sept. 14.

In an opinion written for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Sunday, Biden said his economic policies will lift up American workers while touting the success of his administration in creating new jobs, 800,000 of which are in manufacturing.

“Wages and job satisfaction are up. Restoring the pensions of millions of retired union workers — the biggest step of its kind in the past fifty years,” Biden wrote in an opinion for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Sunday.