United Auto Employees President Shawn Fain on Friday invited President Joe Biden to hitch the picket line as putting employees expanded their walkout to dozens extra Common Motors and Stellantis services.

“We invite and encourage everybody who helps our trigger to hitch us on the picket line from our associates and households all the best way as much as the president of the USA,” Fain stated throughout a Fb Dwell stream.

“We invite you to hitch us in our battle,” the union boss stated.

Fain made good on his promise to increase the strike if “critical progress” wasn’t made by midday ET on Friday in talks with the automakers.

The union boss introduced employees would strike at each components and distribution facility run by Common Motors and Stellantis. The walkout will hit 38 places throughout 20 states in 9 areas, Fain stated.

The UAW determined to spare Ford as a result of the corporate demonstrated it desires to return to an settlement, Fain stated.

“We nonetheless have critical points to work by way of, however we do wish to acknowledge that Ford is exhibiting that they are critical about reaching a deal,” the UAW president stated. “At GM and Stellantis, it is a totally different story.”

Biden sided with the putting employees final Friday when the UAW launched its preliminary focused strikes towards three services in Michigan, Missouri and Ohio.

Report income at Ford, Common Motors and Stellantis “haven’t been shared pretty, for my part, with the employees,” Biden stated throughout a short tackle final Friday.

Biden typically touts his middle-class upbringing and has declared himself the “most pro-union president in American historical past.” The president is operating for a second time period in workplace subsequent 12 months and should have to win the closely unionized swing state of Michigan. The union, which endorsed Biden in 2020, has not but backed his reelection bid.

However Fain has been cool to Biden’s embrace. The union boss advised MSNBC on Monday that he doesn’t see a job for the White Home in serving to to mediate an settlement.

“This battle shouldn’t be concerning the president,” Fain stated. “It isn’t concerning the former president or some other particular person previous to that. This battle is concerning the employees standing up for financial and social justice and getting their justifiable share as a result of they’re fed up with going backwards.”

Biden stated final week that he would dispatch performing Labor Secretary Julie Su and White Home senior advisor Gene Sperling to Detroit this week to assist the negotiations.

However the White Home known as that journey off Tuesday after the union and administration agreed it might be higher to fulfill nearly by way of Zoom relatively than in particular person.

Former President Donald Trump, the 2024 Republican front-runner, is courting a UAW endorsement, although he has additionally attacked the union’s management. Michigan was essential to Trump’s 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton, and a significant factor in his loss to Biden in 2020.

Trump is skipping the second GOP main debate subsequent week to talk with union members and employees in Detroit. The previous president has stated Biden’s push to transition to electrical automobiles threatens the roles of autoworkers within the U.S.

“The autoworkers are being bought down the river by their management, and their management ought to endorse Trump,” the previous president advised NBC Information in an interview that aired Sunday.