For the first time ever, a sitting President is going to be walking a UAW picket line.
The press says that is just the same for Trump to talk to a NON UNION auto parts supplier.
Here is the mainstream press: (Reuters)
President Joe Biden on Tuesday joined a picket line with striking autoworkers in Michigan, supporting their call for a 40% pay raise and saying they deserve a "lot more" than they are getting.
Biden's appearance, the first visit by a U.S. president to striking workers in modern history, comes a day before Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner for president, will speak to auto workers in Michigan. The rare back-to-back events highlight the importance of union support in the 2024 presidential election, even though unions represent a tiny fraction of U.S. workers.
Because Biden and Trump are doing exactly the same thing?
Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit an automotive supplier of engine and transmission parts outside Detroit on Wednesday, the day after President Joe Biden is set to visit a UAW picket line, also near the city.
Trump's camp confirmed Saturday that he will "deliver remarks" at Drake Enterprises Inc. in Clinton Township, Mich., at 8 p.m. Wednesday.
Heather Dombrowski, co-owner of the company started by her grandfather in 1952, said Drake Enterprises was chosen to host the former president because of its entrepreneurial spirit and its exposure to the gasoline engine business. Trump has made the auto industry's electric shift — and the risk of jobs lost to it — a major part of his campaign platform for reelection.
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The company's 125 or so employees are not represented by a union, she said. ………
The reporter in the Reuters story says that the actions are the same, and takes pains to say imply that unions are a dinosaur, because false equivalence is job security.
H/t Atrios.
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