As contract negotiations between big automakers and the United Auto Workers get underway this week, President Biden faces an awkward balancing act between high-profile priorities: Championing labor rights and advancing green-energy policy.
The UAW’s new leadership has sounded a string of alarms in recent weeks about the Biden-backed push toward electric vehicles, criticizing the relatively low pay workers are earning at one new battery factory and blasting the closure of older gasoline-vehicle factories.
That marked a break with other big unions, including the AFL-CIO and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which quicklyThe conflict underscores the competing priorities Biden must balance as he pushes ahead with large federal investments in high-tech industries, an industrial policy aimed at lowering carbon emissions, creating lucrative jobs and boosting U.S. competitiveness against China. Achieving all of those goals without compromise could be an uphill battle.
The tensions are high enough that some expect a UAW strike could break out in September, when workers’ current contracts expire.
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