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US President Joe Biden assured striking car unions of his solidarity during a site visit to Detroit. “You made a lot of sacrifices when companies had problems,” Biden said Tuesday through a megaphone in front of several dozen protesters. “Now they are doing incredibly well and – imagine – you should be doing incredibly well too.”

As next year’s presidential election campaign begins, Biden repeatedly insists he is the most union-friendly president of all time. “Wall Street didn’t create this country. The middle class created this country. And unions created the middle class,” Biden said in Michigan on Tuesday. Detroit is considered the center of automobile production in the United States. A president’s open expression of solidarity at a local picket line is considered historically unique. Traditionally, unions in the US are weaker than in Germany.

During negotiations before the strikes began in mid-September, the UAW union with about 150,000 members recently demanded a 36 percent income increase over four years. The original demand was 40 percent – ​​​​because the income of the top management of the major car companies had grown by this amount. Automakers were prepared for increases of up to 20 percent over four and a half years. (sda/dpa)