WASHINGTON ― President Joe Biden, who joined striking auto workers on the picket line last year, received the United Auto Workers’ endorsement Wednesday in a major boost for his efforts to court working-class voters in Michigan and other Midwest battleground states.
UAW President Shawn Fain announced the endorsement at the union’s annual conference in Washington D.C., with Biden on hand. Fain said Biden “earned” the backing of UAW while slamming Republican frontrunner Donald Trump as “a scab” who “doesn’t care about the American worker.”
“Instead of talking trash about our union, Joe Biden stood with us and supported our historic victory,” Fain said in a fiery speech to UAW members. “Rarely, as a union, do you get so clear of a choice between two candidates.”