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United Farm Workers endorses Biden, says he's an 'authentic champion' for workers and their families

The United Farm Workers on Tuesday announced its endorsement of President Joe Biden for reelection, saying that the Democrat has proven throughout his life to be an “authentic champion” for workers and their families, regardless of race or national origin.

The farm workers’ union was co-founded by Cesar Chavez, the late grandfather of Julie Chavez Rodriguez, who Biden named as his 2024 campaign manager. Her father, Arturo Rodriquez, is a past UFW president.

Julie Rodriguez and “special guests” were expected to formally announce the endorsement later Tuesday at Muranaka Farms in the city of Moorpark in southern California.

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What do you know, you support unions and unions support you.
The UAW visit by Biden is one of the rare trifecta of savvy political maneuvering+the right thing to do + good for the nation as a whole.
- Right thing to do and political motivation aside the "good for the nation as a whole" cannot possibly be understated. We NEED less outsourcing and dependencies on foreign entities. The CHIPS act was a great step and I hope Intel continues with their commitments. We need to ensure similar things happen in the automotive space and beyond.
  
  We NEED less outsourcing and dependencies on foreign entities
  Do you have any supporting arguments for this? This is the opposite of what I'd like to see.
- And yet so many people who would actually benefit from the collective bargaining power will tell that you unions are bad. Wild how people have been convinced to vote against their own self interests.
  
  See: Reagan Democrat
- Too bad Biden only supports unions when it's convenient to him i.e. train workers.
  
  He spent the following weeks negotiating with the rail companies behind the scenes, and eventually got the workers the things they'd demanded initially, including the paid leave.
  
  Go actually research what happened and what Biden actually did not what the propaganda claims.
is Biden showing the Democrats how to be the party of Labor again? can it be THIS EASY?!
Gotta admit this was one hell of a PR stunt! Impressive it actually worked. Considering democrats as a whole are center right on an international scale it couln't have been easy to convince working class folks they actually give a damn.
But PR stunt aside, it still is one hell of a positive message in this incredibly fucked political landscape. Kudos to Biden.
- Gotta push that Overton window to the left a bit, slowly but surely.
- All of politics is PR. But you have to consider our US politics not on a global scale, but on a local one. These unions aren't going to say "you're not far left enough for us to support." Just like pretty much everyone else who votes non-Republican, they're going to vote for whoever matches their ideology the closest, even if it's not as close as we'd like it to be.
- I won’t hold my breath but if he starts pushing for some of the policy decisions he claims to stand by I am an independent progressive and I don’t have anything personal against Biden. But I don’t like neoliberals. I need more than words to support Biden at this point… and trump? What the actual fuck who is this asshat? Would never even consider voting for him under any conditions, ever.
- It totally took me by surprise to see him out there picketing with the workers.
Inb4 someone explains how this proves Biden is bad somehow
- It can be a brilliant PR move and positive at the same time!
- Id rather see him championing a massive hike of the minimum wage to help everyone and not just specific labor groups, but I'm not saying this is bad.
  
  You win battles where you can. Union wages puts pressure on non-union companies to raise wages and tends to attract the best workers. The greedy rich hate unions and manipulate their workers. Divided you beg. United you bargain.
  
  Minimum wage was in Biden's proposals but got defeated in the senate. Remember Sinema giving her stupid thumbs down? He can't raise the minimum wage by fiat. He did raise the minimum wage for all federal workers, which is something he can directly control. If you want a federal minimum wage increase you need democrats in control of congress, and you more conservative and corpo democrats like Sinema primaried out for actual progressives.
  Spreading union sentiment will help workers across many different fields in ways beyond just pay scale, and strong support of unions will encourage more and more workers to unionize so they can reap the benefits. Beyond just encouraging more people to form unions, unions help even un-unionized workers, as now other companies need to offer similar benefits and pay to what unionized workers get to remain competitive in hiring.
  
  Most auto workers already make more than minimum wage, so that wouldn't help them particularly.
  
  And so here you are hauling water for the Republican Party. Seems counter productive to me.
  
  Raising minimum wage would not help "everyone" as the pay of the vast majority of workers is not tied to minimum wage at all.
- He’s an old white dude, but generally he has done a good job through his first term. I don’t love him and wish he’d not run again, but he’s far from the worst choice
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United Farm Workers on Tuesday announced its endorsement of President Joe Biden for reelection, saying that the Democrat has proven throughout his life to be an “authentic champion” for workers and their families, regardless of race or national origin.
Julie Rodriguez and “special guests” were expected to formally announce the endorsement later Tuesday at Muranaka Farms in the city of Moorpark in southern California.
The UFW endorsement came as Biden on Tuesday flew to the Detroit area to join a picket line with United Auto Workers members who are on strike against Ford, General Motors and Stellantis.
The farm workers’ union endorsed Biden in 2020 over Republican President Donald Trump, who leads the field of GOP candidates vying for the party’s 2024 presidential nomination and the chance to challenge Biden.
Julie Rodriguez said in a written statement that the UFW’s organizing has always been about fighting injustice and supporting working people, values that she said are at stake in the election.
She was a top White House adviser to Biden before he named her as campaign manager earlier this year.
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Authentically authentic candidate per the Dem guidelines. Didn't stand up for rail workers then got heat for it, now he is a workers champion while also being business friendly. Incredible.
We need to vote for people that will actual codify real change and stop straddling the line. We need representation that is not some rich family's kids.
- He worked with the railworkers after Congress broke the strike. He got them what they wanted and they even credit Biden for putting the political pressure to have this happen. They railroad workers are okay with him
  
  Lol 4 days off a year vs 15, how the fuck can you say they got what they wanted? Btw, I'm prior class I freight conductor, with ton of friends still there. They are NOT ok with him.
  
  He barred the workers from striking and gambled with their well being. He had no guarantee of succeeding in getting sick days (which they did not even get as much as they demanded), and if it didn't happen to work out the way it did, the workers would've been fucked with no legal recourse.
Reminder: Slick Joe fucked the rail workers.
- No he didn't. The strikers got what they wanted afterwards
  
  He pushed for and signed a bill taking away their right to strike.
  Don't be a shill for him.
- It's like the only thing I can't get past. Am I right in understanding it's also what caused Lebanon or is that propaganda?
  
  No, that train derailment is just the normal lousy state of our infrastructure.
Is this the same farmers' union that Louis Rossmann said was sus?
I need to see Biden passing 15$ mjnimum wage before I vote for him. Or universal health care lol. Or anything close to what fdr would have gotten according to the news I guess I dunno
- This "take" is what's wrong with American politics. If Biden can't push either of those through an opposition House that would never do anything he wants, you will actively enable the other side, who would undo all of the good done, to win?
  
  "I will not help us achieve progress until we can achieve more progress".
  
  Your take is actually what’s wrong. I’m not voting for the other guy just because I’m not voting for Biden
  What’s wrong with our politics is the fucking corporate boot lickers like you who watch politicians like Biden and most others receive legalized bribes and yet you continue to suck his dick.
  get that old man cock out of your mouth it’s not a good look
  Biden has literally gotten nothing done. But you treat him like FDR
  Quit smoking crack
- I need to see Biden passing 15$ mjnimum wage
  Biden cannot pass anything. Only congress can. Obviously if such a thing passed congress Biden would gladly sign it. But since the GOP controls congress, it cannot happen until Dems win it back. That's basic politics.
  
  That’s basic politics.
  Zoomers: [head explodes]
  
  Biden could fight …… for anything.
  They gave up on their “signature issue” of 15$ the fucking first month in office.
  Biden has the bully pulpit free media attention whenever he wants it. He can fight for his agenda.
  But he has no spine and does not fight for anything that his corporate overlords do not approve of.
  Dude is basically Regan after Alzheimer’s
- I don't know that I've ever seen a more blatant example of cutting off your nose to spite your face.
- I hope you enjoy the increase you'll get under the Fascists.
  
  Corporate oligarchy or facism….. if those are the only two options, I no longer give a fuck and my ballot will be blank under the options for president. I vote every year but I don’t vote for neoliberals or asshats.
- I mean whatever he does it'll be better than Trump or whoever republicans are gonna nominate.
  
  I’m done voting for the better of two evils. I will not vote for politicians who do not support policy I care about. And right now Biden was right. Nothing has fundamentally changed. His corporate donors approve, but that’s not how you get my vote. And I know I’m not alone.
- Lol. You think that's how it works??
- And that's why you will never get those.
- He can't do any of that unless the Dems take back the house and have 60 seats in the Senate.
  And it's almost certain that the Dems will actually lose the Senate this cycle. This is the 2018 "Blue Wave" crop up for reelection.
  Even if the Dems win 2/3 seats this cycle, the Republicans will retake the Senate.

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