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Biden hails UAW-Daimler Truck deal as ‘proof of collective bargaining power’
President Joe Biden praised the United Auto Workers and Daimler Trucks for reaching a tentative eleventh hour Friday night, preventing a possible strike affecting 7,300 workers.
“This agreement is a testament to the power of collective bargaining and shows that we can build a clean energy economy with strong, middle-class union jobs,” Biden said in a statement Sunday.
The “record contract” includes raises of more than 25% over the next four years, inflation protections such as cost-of-living considerations, and the first profit-sharing agreement in Daimler history, UAW President Shawn Fain said Friday night on Facebook Live.
Daimler is a major manufacturer of trucks and buses, responsible for manufacturing Thomas Built buses, one of the most popular school bus brands in the United States.
CNN has reached out to Daimler Truck for comment.
The tentative agreement was made following a build-up of momentum for the UAW. Earlier this month, hourly workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted overwhelmingly to join the union, a major breakthrough in the union’s efforts to organize workers at factories across the country.
The union has also announced efforts to represent workers at nine other foreign automakers with American plants – BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Mazda, Mercedes, Nissan, Subaru, Toyota and Volvo. It has already filed to hold a proxy election at the Mercedes plant in Vance, Alabama, outside Tuscaloosa. The vote is set for next month and ends on May 17.
Recent organizing efforts capitalized on a successful six-week strike last fall at three nationally unionized automakers – General Motors, Ford and Stellantis. Subsequent contract negotiations won record pay raises for UAW members at all three companies.
