Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg would neither confirm nor deny President Joe Biden's support of a four-day workweek for UAW members.
The United Auto Workers have been on strike for over a week against the Big Three automakers in Detroit, Michigan. Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis have refused to budge on the union's demands for decreased hours similar to a four-day week, along with a 36% pay bump over the next four years.Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg refuses to say if Biden supports the UAW strike demand of "a four-day workweek with five days of pay" pic.twitter.
"We’re not at the table, right," Buttigieg said."We’re not part of the negotiations, we’re not doing the numbers. That’s for the companies and the unions to do. What the president is making clear is that he is leading an economy where people need to — as he says, the economy needs to grow from the bottom up and the middle out, not the top down."
Employees at the three automakers currently earn between $18 to $32 an hour, meaning that such a dramatic increase would see wages pushed as high as $43.52 per hour. Instead, the Big Three have countered with wage increases ranging from 17.5-20% over the life of a contract.The last time the UAW went on strike was in 2019, and in those six weeks, the largest auto union in the nation cost GM $3.6 billion. This time, the union is striking against all of the Big Three Detroit automakers.
UAW boasts a membership of 400,000 in the United States. At the moment, only some of its members are on strike, with 38 facilities across 20 states currently taking part.
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