The United Auto Workers expanded its strike against major automakers Friday walking out of General Motors and Stellantis parts distribution centers in states . The UAW launched its most recent strike at factories in Michigan Missouri and Ohio owned by the big three American automakers General Motors . The union is seeking wage hikes over four years a fourday work week and increased benefits and job protections . Trump has used the strike to signal that he is looking beyond the GOP primary skipping the second Republican debate Wednesday and trying to create his own moment in the spotlight by meeting with members of various unions at a manufacturing plant near Detroit . Both will offer a preview of their general election pitches to the working class industrial union members who could help deliver victory in key battleground states like Michigan Wisconsin and Pennsylvania . The path to the White House likely runs through states where appealing to voters with union ties could make the difference in a close race . The presidential politics of the moment is inescapable. On the Republican side theres a huge opportunity. And on the Democratic side the . Democratic side is a huge risk. Whereas Democrats need to figure out how to strike a balance among the automakers union leadership and rankandfile union members . Republicans can appeal to workers without embracing companies EV policies or supporting union leaders or support union leaders he said. Republicans can . appeal to Workers without embracing . unions or supporting Union leaders or supporting unions. Anuzis added. The Republican Party has a lot more leeway on the Republican . Anuzi added. Democrats need a . to be sympathetic to workers. to be supportive of the Republican. to the Democratic . to the Republican Party of the .automarathonistists and the union leaders. The union.com. to agree to a balance between the unions .
Trump and Biden’s Michigan visits will present competing strategies to winning union voters . Trump and
