UAW President Lists 5 Key Reasons why Trump Lost Union Endorsement

@#15 ... Promise them ...

Got a link?

Here's one thing I found...

'Honored to have your back, and you have mine': Biden endorsed by United Auto Workers in election
apnews.com

... Fain, the first UAW president directly elected by members, took office after a huge bribery and embezzlement scandal that ended with two union presidents serving prison time. So he's making sure to follow union procedures on the endorsement and show that members made the decision, even though there's no way the UAW would have backed Trump, said Brian Rothenberg, a former union spokesman.

The UAW, with roughly 380,000 members, is normally one of the last unions to endorse presidential candidates, Rothenberg said. For example, the union didn't endorse Biden in 2020 until April 21.

In a November interview with The Associated Press, Fain made clear that he personally supports Biden, as he railed against Trump.

Fain pointed to Biden's trip to the GM parts warehouse, which is believed to be the first time a sitting president appeared with union picketers.

About that same time, Trump held a rally at a nonunion auto parts maker near Detroit, which Fain said was odd. Biden's administration also supported the union's bid to persuade Stellantis to reopen a shuttered plant in Belvidere, Illinois, and joined Fain in the city 70 miles (113 kilometers) northwest of Chicago to celebrate its reopening, Fain said.

Internal UAW polling typically shows that in the spring and early summer, 30% of members support the GOP, 30% support Democrats and the remaining 40% swing between parties, he said. By Election Day, members and UAW retirees usually vote 60% Democratic, said Rothenberg, now a public relations consultant in Columbus, Ohio.

The endorsement may also sway nonunion blue-collar white males, who have been voting more for Republicans than in the past, Rothenberg said. ...

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#17 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-01-29 07:47 PM
@#15 ... Promise them ...
Got a link?

One of many: www.pbgc.gov - PBGC Approves Supplemented SFA Application for Local 365 UAW Plan

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Plans that applied for and received SFA under the interim final SFA rule issued in July 2021 are permitted to supplement their application under the provisions of the final SFA rule issued in July 2022. The Local 365 UAW Plan will receive approximately $19 million in supplemented SFA, which is in addition to $228.3 million in SFA approved for the plan by PBGC in May 2022 under the interim final rule. SFA will better ensure that the plan can continue to pay retirement benefits without reduction for many years into the future.

"Today's approval of supplemental Special Financial Assistance, funded by President Biden's American Rescue Plan, in conjunction with the previously approved Special Financial Assistance, means the Local 365 UAW Plan will be able to provide the retirement promised to its 3,736 manufacturing industry workers," said Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh, Chair of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's Board of Directors.

About the Special Financial Assistance Program
The SFA Program was enacted as part of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act of 2021. The program provides funding to severely underfunded multiemployer pension plans ...

As of December 20, 2022, PBGC has approved over $45.5 billion in SFA to plans covering over 550,000 workers, retirees, and beneficiaries.

The SFA Program operates under a final rule, published in the Federal Register on July 8, 2022, which became effective August 8, 2022.
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gop-waysandmeans.house.gov - Brady: Democrats Force Taxpayers to Cover Irresponsible Promises with Largest Private Pension Bailout in History

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Democrats rejected protections for union workers in other underfunded multi-employer plans that are not as politically connected as the Teamsters' Central States plan. ...
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"... 37 multiemployer pension plans have requested between $4 million and $35 billion each, with 25 of those plans already approved to receive $6.5 billion of an estimated $97 billion in taxpayer money.

These never-before in U.S. history, no-strings-attached taxpayer bailouts of private multiemployer or union pension plans are part of the American Rescue Plan - despite the fact that this decades-long problem has nothing to do with COVID-19 ...

Now, they're on track to pay out even less, with taxpayers guaranteeing that 100% of whatever certain union pension plans promise will be delivered - at least through 2051..."

The bailout works like this: Plans that are in the worst financial shape can apply to receive lump-sum cash transfers direct from the Treasury (euphemistically called "special financial assistance") in an amount sufficient to continue paying 100% of promised pension benefits through 2051...
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... etc. etc., and so on and so on...

There was never any doubt about endorsement(s), but Shawn Fain did make Biden sweat and made sure that he "walked the plank"... er, "joined the picket line" for a minute.
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