The president of United States, Joe Bidenwill leave a historic image next Tuesday when he travels to the state of Michigan to join the pickets of the automobile sector, on strike for a week to demand labor improvements. The Democratic president will thus join members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union, a trip that he announced through his social networks after facing political pressure to increase his public support for union members.

“On Tuesday I will go to Michigan to join the picket and show solidarity with the men and women of the UAW as they fight for a fair share of the value they helped create. It’s time for a win-win deal that keeps American auto manufacturing thriving with good-paying UAW jobs,” she wrote in a post on social media site X, formerly known as Twitter.

Biden’s trip and the historic presidential appearance at a picket line They underscore the political opportunity as the strike against the country’s three largest automakers (General Motors, Ford and Stellantis) enters its second week, CNN reported. The union declared a strike on September 15 after failing to reach an agreement to sign a new collective agreement with those three companies.

Specifically, UAW demands salary increases of 40% distributed over the next four years, the elimination of salary differences between plant workers of the same companies, greater guarantees of job security and recovering the aid they had until 2009 to compensate for the increase in the cost of living.

Trump will also go to Michigan

Biden’s visit to Michigan will occur one day before the former president donald trump, the current front-runner in the GOP presidential race, deliver a prime-time speech to an audience of current and former union members, including the UAW, in Detroit. Earlier in the week, Trump’s team confirmed that he would skip the second primary debate to deliver this speech.

The tycoon’s campaign has criticized Biden’s visit as a “cheap photo opportunity,” and Trump adviser Jason Miller has claimed that the current president will only go to Michigan because Trump had announced his own trip.