The regulation would require automakers to sell more electric vehicles and hybrids by gradually tightening limits on tailpipe pollution.
Nearly 10 percent of cars sold in 2023 were EVs.
With its successful strike, UAW broke with decades of concessions, won on pay and workplace democracy, and launched a new national labor leader. There’s much more organizing to be done, but this is an unmitigated victory for the entire working class.
GM’s promise to cover its EV battery factories under the national master agreement gives workers a share of the gains from going electric.
Here’s what launched the militant union leader toward a historic strike.
"We are glad to see the Biden administration doing its part to reject the false choice between a good job and a green job," said the United Auto Workers president.
Legislation gives incentives to companies to manufacture electric vehicles without protections for workers, according to autoworkers union head Shawn Fain.
The United Auto Workers is refusing to endorse Joe Biden until he commits to backing an electric vehicle transition that creates good union jobs. The union’s new reform leadership is absolutely right to hold Biden’s feet to the fire.
Electric vehicle manufacturing in the US is overwhelming nonunion, but 1,400 workers for an electric bus manufacturer in Georgia have just unionized. It’s one of the labor movement’s biggest victories in the South this century.
Two more members of the Postal Service Board of Governors finish their terms in December. Biden could replace them with members willing to fire the postmaster general.
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