Ron Brownstein: “The United Automobile Workers’ strike against the Big Three manufacturers that began earlier today is exacerbating the most significant political vulnerability of President Joe Biden’s drive to build a clean-energy economy.”
“A trio of bills Biden passed through Congress during his first two years in the Oval Office has generated a torrent of private-sector investment into clean-energy projects. But so far most of that green investment and the jobs it will create are flowing into red-leaning communities that are generally hostile to both the Democratic Party and labor unions.”
Jonathan Last: “The actual threat to these union autoworkers isn’t China, but the Republican governments in sunbelt states, which have worked hard to weaken unions in order to make themselves attractive to big business.”
