It inspired the man I get to introduce because he came out. “It was a movement that went across the country,” Frantzen said. He also praised Fain and the strike strategy that disrupted operations selectively in a way the automakers often could not anticipate. Matt Frantzen, the president of UAW Local 1268 who introduced the president and presented him with the T-shirt, recalled meeting with Biden in Chicago and getting a chance to talk about the local plant closure. The woman was quickly escorted away from the room where the president was speaking. “And now the auto companies were doing incredibly well, so autoworkers should be doing incredibly well as well.”īiden’s remarks were briefly interrupted by a woman protesting, calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. You guys sacrificed to save the automobile industry” amid the 2008 financial crisis, Biden said. “That day in Michigan, I said the auto strike was about a simple proposition. The union in late October reached tentative agreements with the big three automakers they are currently in the ratification process. Biden, who had previously joined striking members of the UAW on a picket line in Michigan, met with the union’s president, Shawn Fain, and other autoworkers in Boone County, Ill., on Thursday.
