Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> slammed President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> on Tuesday over his electric vehicle push, saying his policies would destroy the American auto industry. 
Trump&#8217;s comments come ahead of a planned appearance at a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan</a> auto parts manufacturing plant on Wednesday evening, where he will speak to workers. On Tuesday, Biden made a brief appearance in Michigan, joining the picket line with workers from the United Auto Workers union who have been striking for nearly two weeks. 
“Joe Biden&#8217;s draconian and indefensible Electric Vehicle mandate will annihilate the U.S. auto industry and cost countless thousands of autoworkers their jobs. The only thing Biden could say today that would help the striking autoworkers is to announce the immediate termination of his ridiculous mandate,” Trump said in a <a href="https://djt.nucleusemail.com/amplify/v/j9qQWR6NZg?hids=E2gue4r&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=ncl_amplify&amp;utm_campaign=230926-statement_by_donald_j_trump_45th_president_of_the_united_states_duplicate&amp;utm_content=ncl-djhpq8YZhu&amp;_nlid=djhpq8YZhu&amp;_nhids=E2gue4r" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. 
The Biden administration has aggressively pushed a “transition” from gas-fueled cars to electric vehicles, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/biden-administration-aims-2-bln-grants-us-electric-vehicle-transition-2023-06-28/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allocating</a> billions of dollars toward electric vehicle manufacturing, with the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/04/17/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-new-private-and-public-sector-investments-for-affordable-electric-vehicles/#:~:text=Federal%20Government&amp;text=President%20Biden's%20Federal%20Sustainability%20Plan,duty%20ZEVs%20annually%20by%202035." target="_blank" rel="noopener">goal</a> of making electric vehicles half of all new vehicle sales nationwide by 2030. 
“Anything else is just a feeble and insulting attempt to distract American labor from this vicious Biden betrayal,&#8221; Trump’s statement continued. &#8220;Crooked Joe should be ashamed to show his face before these hardworking Americans he is stabbing in the back. With Biden, it doesn’t matter what hourly wages they get, in three years there will be no autoworker jobs as they will all come out of China and other countries. With me, there will be jobs and wages like you’ve never seen before. Our economy will grow!” 
Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/09/26/remarks-by-president-biden-at-united-auto-workers-picket-line/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared</a> with UAW President Shawn Fain during his visit to the picket line on Tuesday, saying that the workers should receive higher pay. Not all workers were thrilled to see Biden, with some referencing his electric vehicle push. 
&#8220;He hasn&#8217;t really shown us anything. He&#8217;s giving companies all these big incentives to push towards electric vehicles and it&#8217;s going to eliminate our jobs as UAW members,&#8221; Jason Richards, a forklift operator at a Ford plant, <a href="https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/among-michigans-striking-autoworkers-a-tepid-welcome-for-union-joe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Washington Free Beacon. &#8220;It takes a whole lot less people to build an electric vehicle than a gas-powered vehicle.&#8221;
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Biden announced his visit to the picket line days after Trump said he would forgo the second presidential debate to speak to auto workers in Michigan. Fain has been critical of Trump, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/united-auto-workers-president-blasts-trump-ahead-michigan-visit-rcna117563#:~:text=Trump%20will%20fly%20to%20Michigan,workers%20on%20the%20picket%20line." target="_blank" rel="noopener">claiming</a> he “serves a billionaire class and that&#8217;s what&#8217;s wrong with this country.”
When <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/autoworkers-strike-expands-ahead-of-expected-appearances-from-trump-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously</a> asked about the strike, Trump, who has long been critical of the U.S. economic relationship with China, said that the workers had been “sold down the river by their leadership” and that they should support him.

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The writers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/strike">strike</a> which has dragged on for 148 days has come to an end as the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/writers-guild-of-america">WGA</a> (Writers Guild of America) agreed to a deal.
Governing boards for the union voted to accept a new contract on Tuesday, effectively ending the strike and allowing writers to get back to work beginning at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.
“The WGAW Board and WGAE Council also voted to lift the restraining order and end the strike as of 12:01 am PT/3:01 am ET on Wednesday, September 27th. This allows writers to return to work during the ratification process, but does not affect the membership’s right to make a final determination on contract approval,” the WGA wrote in a statement.
The three-year agreement addresses the main areas of concern for the union, including increased compensation, guaranteed length of employment, mandated writer&#8217;s room staff minimums, and protections against the use of AI (artificial intelligence). 
The contract won’t be officially accepted until it&#8217;s ratified by union members following a voting period from October 2 until October 9. If certain portions aren’t passed, the strike could resume.
Specifically, the contract guarantees 5% raises in the first year, 4% raises in the second year, and 3.5% in the third. Health fund contributions will increase to 12% of the companies’ reportable earnings, per <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/26/business/wga-back-to-work/index.html">CNN</a>, and writers working on the same script will no longer need to split pension and health contributions.
The outlet noted that for big streaming projects, including feature-length productions with a budget of at least $30 million, writer compensation will increase 18% to $100,000 minimum. Writers will also receive an increased percentage of residual pay for streaming projects they&#8217;ve worked on, and companies agreed to be more transparent about reporting viewership numbers.
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As for the AI concerns, the document states that “AI can’t write or rewrite literary material.” 
Despite the agreement, Hollywood can’t get back up and running like normal until the SAG-AFTRA strike is also resolved. That union went on strike beginning July 14.
A SAG-AFTRA spokesperson said the union is “reviewing the WGA’s tentative agreement and are committed to achieving a fair and just deal for our members.”
“We remain on strike in our TV/Theatrical/Streaming contract and will inform our members when there is negotiations news to share. We will not speculate regarding schedule or next steps,” the spokesperson told CNN.

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SAG-AFTRA members on Monday voted 98% in favor of authorizing a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/strike" target="_blank" rel="noopener">strike</a> against ten major <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/video-games" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video game</a> companies. 
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/unions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">union</a> is currently on strike against the TV and film industry, as is the WGA (Writers Guild of America), which has resulted in a total Hollywood shutdown. The WGA went on strike beginning May 2, while SAG-AFTRA&#8217;s work stoppage began July 14.
Now, the video game industry is under the spotlight as another potential strike looms. The union’s last strike against the gaming companies lasted 183 days in 2016 and 2017, per a Deadline <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/09/sag-aftra-approve-strike-video-game-industry-1235555756/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a>.
“It’s time for the video game companies to stop playing games and get serious about reaching an agreement on this contract,” SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher said in a statement. 
Monday&#8217;s vote gives the national board the authority to call a strike. It doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean it will happen.
“The result of this vote shows our membership understands the existential nature of these negotiations, and that the time is now for these companies — which are making billions of dollars and paying their CEOs lavishly — to give our performers an agreement that keeps performing in video games as a viable career,” Drescher continued.
Many of the union&#8217;s demands are similar to those requested by writers and actors striking against the studios, centered on compensation and the use of artificial intelligence (AI).
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“After five rounds of bargaining, it has become abundantly clear that the video game companies aren’t willing to meaningfully engage on the critical issues: compensation undercut by inflation, unregulated use of AI, and safety,” SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland said. 
“I remain hopeful that we will be able to reach an agreement that meets members’ needs, but our members are done being exploited, and if these corporations aren’t willing to offer a fair deal, our next stop will be the picket lines.”
Audrey Cooling, a spokesperson for the video game producers party to the Interactive Media Agreement, said they are working hard to work out a deal and avoid another strike.
“We will continue to negotiate in good faith to reach an agreement that reflects the important contributions of SAG-AFTRA-represented performers in video games. We have reached tentative agreements on over half of the proposals and are optimistic we can find a resolution at the bargaining table,” she said in a statement to The Daily Wire.  
Both sides are reportedly set to resume negotiations on Tuesday.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-union-president-says-auto-workers-feel-abandoned-by-the-democratic-party-as-union-criticizes-bidens-ev-push" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United Auto Workers</a> announced a strike against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ford-motor-co" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ford</a>, General Motors, and Stellantis, as the union demands higher wages and “economic and social justice.”
Around 13,000 auto workers <a href="https://apnews.com/article/auto-uaw-workers-strike-gm-ford-stellantis-7ce3ca9d94b911250d07556b7af376c7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stopped working</a> as picketing began outside a Ford factory in Wayne, Michigan; a GM assembly plant in Wentzville, Missouri; and a Stellantis Jeep plant in Toledo, Ohio. The strike comes after weeks of negotiations between the union and leadership at the automakers. 
“We didn’t want to be here. We want a fair agreement. We want fair economic and social justice for our members. That’s what this is all about. And it’s a shame,” <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/live-blog/uaw-strike-ford-general-motors-stellantis-live-updates-rcna105134" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Shawn Fain, president of the auto workers union. 
The strike is currently only targeted at three factories as the UAW pushes for a 36% pay bump over a four-year period for workers. Ford and GM said they could do 20% and Stellantis put forth a 17.5% increase over four years, according to the Associated Press. 
Other demands by the union are a 32-hour work week with pay for 40 hours, pensions for new employees, and inflation-based pay bumps. 
Prior to the strike, GM outlined that, in addition to the 20% pay increase over four years, the company would add “inflation protection,” increase its contributions to retirement health care savings by 25%, and increase vacation time. GM CEO Mary Barra <a href="https://www.gmnegotiations2023.com/public/us/en/negotiations/home.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">described</a> the offer as a “compelling and unprecedented economic package.” 
President Joe Biden, who <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/09/05/uaw-strike-likely-detroit-automakers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">predicted</a> that a strike would not take place, will reportedly discuss the standoff sometime on Friday. 
&#8220;No, I&#8217;m not worried about a strike until it happens. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s going to happen,” Biden said on Labor Day. 
Alfredo Ortiz, president and CEO of Job Creators Network, slammed Biden in a statement after the strike, saying that the president was in part responsible for the strike.
&#8220;President Biden is partly responsible for the economically damaging UAW strike because Bidenflation has caused declining real wages and living standards for ordinary workers, resulting in UAW taking this drastic action to swing the wage pendulum in the other direction. Biden&#8217;s pro-union rhetoric, including calling himself the most pro-union president in history, has also contributed to the UAW overplaying its hand with ridiculous compensation demands that threaten the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of workers, thousands of small businesses that service the big three automakers, and even the automakers themselves,&#8221; Ortiz said.
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Ford said that a strike “could have wide-ranging consequences for our business and the economy. It also impacts the very 57,000 UAW-Ford workers we are trying to reward with this contract.”
Stellantis, who had about 5,800 employees in Ohio stop work making the Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator, said it was “disappointed” by the strike. 
&#8220;We are extremely disappointed by the UAW leadership’s refusal to engage in a responsible manner to reach a fair agreement in the best interest of our employees, their families and our customers,&#8221; a statement from Stellantis said. &#8220;We immediately put the Company in contingency mode and will take all the appropriate structural decisions to protect our North American operations and the Company,” the company added.

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Auto workers in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan</a> are preparing to go on strike for higher wages at three major U.S. carmakers as the United Auto Workers (UAW) union criticizes President Joe Biden’s handouts for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/as-auto-strike-looms-biden-admin-announces-15-5-billion-for-electric-vehicle-manufacturers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">electric vehicle industry</a>.
The UAW <a href="https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2023/09/14/live-updates-uaw-strike-looms-hours-before-contracts-expire-with-big-three-automakers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> workers at General Motors, Ford, and Stellanits deserve a pay raise of 36%, and unless the union can come to an agreement with the automakers by midnight Thursday, the auto workers will go on strike. Not all of the UAW’s criticisms are directed at Detroit’s three major automakers; the union is also upset with the Biden administration and the Democratic Party for its subsidies to the electric vehicle industry, warning that the rush to push EVs is overlooking the security and protection of the American auto worker.
“UAW members feel abandoned by the Democratic Party,” former UAW President Bob King <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/13/biden-labor-ally-threatening-energy-agenda-00115415" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> POLITICO in an interview, saying that Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act has failed to benefit union workers. “I think there’s a segment of the Democratic Party that sees itself as serving corporations rather than the common good. … We’ve had a lot of disappointments.”
POLITICO reported that most of the energy investments made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act are flowing away from Michigan and to more Republican-led <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/13/biden-inflation-reduction-act-climate-states-00110940" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a>, such as Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and South Carolina. The UAW is also concerned that it will lose members when motor companies invest even more into EVs as EVs usually have fewer parts than gas-powered cars.
The UAW is withholding an endorsement of Biden as it waits to hear back from the administration. UAW President Shawn Fain demanded the Biden administration give the UAW assurances that union workers will be protected as the federal government pushes for higher EV production. Biden, who <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/09/08/remarks-by-president-biden-in-honor-of-labor-unions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes</a> himself as the “most pro-union president&#8221; in history, received the endorsement of the UAW in 2020 as the union typically backs any candidate with a “D” next to their name, but the UAW president said Biden has some more to prove before he gets an endorsement for 2024.
“Actions are going to dictate endorsements, so we’ll see how things continue to play out, and we have a lot of issues to resolve,” Fain <a href="https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/cg/date/2023-09-11/segment/02" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CNN’s Jake Tapper earlier this week. “There’s a lot with the EV transition that has to happen, and there’s hundreds of billions of our taxpayer dollars that are helping fund this, and workers cannot continue to be left behind in that equation.”
Ever since taking over in the White House in 2021, Biden has strongly pushed for the U.S. to ramp up electric vehicle production in the name of green energy. The White House is <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/04/17/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-new-private-and-public-sector-investments-for-affordable-electric-vehicles/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investing</a> in the car industry with the hopes of getting EV sales to make up half of all new vehicle sales by 2030, subsidizing American car companies to help the administration reach its goal.
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Earlier this year, Ford <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ford-gets-9-2-billion-loan-from-biden-admin-for-ev-battery-factories-biggest-check-since-2009-bailouts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">received</a> the largest government check for an automaker since the 2009 bailouts thanks to a $9.2 billion loan intended to help construct three electric vehicle battery plants in the U.S. The Biden administration and Motor Company continue to push EVs even as Ford <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ford-loses-billions-on-electric-cars-embraces-hybrids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it expects to lose $4.5 billion from its EV division this year.

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Thousands of Los Angeles city workers plan to halt municipal operations for at least 24 hours on Tuesday after they say city administrators fell short of addressing employee resources and hiring more staff.
SEIU Local 721, which represents more than 98,000 county and city employees across Southern California, announced last weekend it plans to protest city management and other &#8220;unfair labor practices restricting employee and union rights,&#8221; according to a statement from union officials reported by ABC7.  At least 11,000 plan to participate in the one-day strike.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to shut down the city of Los Angeles,&#8221; David Green, SEIU Local 721 executive director and president, told <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/08/06/over-11000-la-workers-plan-strike-hoping-shut-down-city/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>. &#8220;The message we&#8217;re sending is that our workers are just fed up. They&#8217;ve reached a breaking point. And we need these folks in the city to come back to the table for the good of the city.&#8221;
Green reportedly told City News Service the protest would include more than 30 strike lines made up of sanitation workers, mechanics, traffic officers, engineers, and others. He added to The Post the move comes after &#8220;bad faith bargaining&#8221; by city officials.
&#8220;Sanitation alone has over 900 vacancies,&#8221; Green said. &#8220;Unfortunately, some of the people that work in City Hall are these out-of-touch administrators. And we&#8217;ve been sounding the alarm for years. So we&#8217;re saying, come back to the table.&#8221;
&#8220;We are going to be throughout the entire city striking to send a message that the city&#8217;s broken the law,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They need to come back to the table, they need to fill these vacancies, and they need to listen to the concerns of the public.&#8221;
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Green said that Los Angeles residents could experience a lack of services — from trash pickup to Los Angeles Airport security — on Tuesday. The union expects picket lines to start forming around 4:00 a.m. and workers to meet at City Hall for a march and rally at 11:00 a.m.
Los Angeles Democratic Mayor Karen Bass told ABC7 on Saturday that city workers are vital to the local economy, and officials were available to negotiate.
&#8220;They deserve fair contracts and we have been bargaining in good faith with SEIU 721 since January,&#8221; said Bass. &#8220;The City will always be available to make progress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.&#8221;
A historic <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/studios-load-up-on-ai-specialists-as-actors-writers-remain-on-picket-line" target="_blank" rel="noopener">strike</a> involving Hollywood actors and writers has also dragged into its second month.

Presser at LAC+USC Medical Center. Two bargaining units of SEIU Local 721 representing roughly 7,000 frontline employees, including nurses and nurse practitioners, are announcing plans at a press conference for a three-day strike beginning on June 1st. Th

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The following is the opening satirical monologue from “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1131-we-can-beat-them" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Andrew Klavan Show.</a>”
As you know, we Hollywood writers are on strike right now. And you may be saying to yourself: “Oh no! Who will take our favorite childhood cartoon characters and transform them into sexually deviant groomers so that the minds and lives of our own children can be destroyed by the very franchises we had come to love and trust?” And yes, that is a problem, but the fact is the corrupt, greedy industry moguls who have been pumping toxic and immoral sludge into our culture for the last sixty years aren’t paying us enough to write the scripts.
Now, if the strike continues too long, screen content may start to dry up, and some of you may be forced to seek your entertainment elsewhere, like in great novels or conversation with your friends or classic old films on TCM or even just quietly reading the Bible to yourself until you never want to watch another morally repugnant modern movie ever again and may even be inspired to hunt down every Hollywood content creator of any kind whatsoever and tie his shoelaces together while he’s napping so that when he wakes up and gets to his feet, he falls over and cracks his head open and gets to feel what it’s like for the rest of us to watch a modern American movie.
In order to prevent that from happening, I personally would like to ban the Bible before you find out what’s in it, but there’s just too many damn copies out there, so instead, I’ll try to divert your attention by giving you a rundown of the great, great content we’re just waiting to write for you as soon as we can get the miserable capitalist pigs who are destroying our culture to pay us fairly for helping them.
One upcoming movie we have in the pipeline is the latest entry in the most popular DC franchise, “Superman.” In this sequel, the man of steel rushes to Metropolis to destroy a swarm of murderous invaders and is then charged with first degree manslaughter by Metropolis District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
We’re also planning a modern take on the 1970’s Watergate blockbuster &#8220;All the President’s Men&#8221; in which once again, a sleazy and untrustworthy presidential candidate is exposed dragging our government agencies into a series of despicable dirty campaign tricks, until the intrepid reporters of the Washington Post cover the story up.
Then we’re rebooting the great &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; trilogy. In film one, Frodo fights through Orcs to reach Mount Doom until he’s charged with first degree manslaughter by Mordor District Attorney Alvin Bragg. In the sequel, George Soros mysteriously becomes invisible, then later turns up as a corrupt, twisted, deformed blue creature of darkness who contributes to Bragg’s reelection campaign. The final film details the war between Soros and an army of conservatives, who want to destroy the corrupt, twisted, deformed creature of darkness because they just don’t like Bluish people.
In the whodunit genre, we’ll be rolling out &#8220;Moonlight Two&#8221; in which a homosexual black detective tries to solve the mystery of how a film can win an Oscar when literally no one has ever seen it.
Unfortunately, Anthony Hopkins has grown too old to play Hannibal Lecter, but we have attached Denzel Washington to star as the cannibal serial killer who cooks and eats a census taker’s liver with fava beans and a fine chianti and is then charged by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg with cooking over an open flame without a permit.
The Marvel Universe will continue to expand with &#8220;Native American Panther.&#8221; In this brilliant epic of virtue signaling and racial pandering, history is rewritten when Native Americans develop the world&#8217;s greatest culture after a space rock falls on them and magically turns them into Europeans. Superhero Native American Panther then sets out to spread the gift to the world until he realizes that Native Americans never invented the wheel so he can’t go anywhere.
And finally, in a real life sequel to 2011’s pandemic thriller &#8220;Contagion,&#8221; a fast spreading flu virus threatens to kill 80-year-olds until heroic government doctor Anthony Fauci destroys the economy, strips Americans of their civil rights, ruins the lives of children and then sets out to try to solve the mystery of why the disease caused so much damage to society.
So — there are great films coming your way as soon as we can get back to work in the movie industry. Meanwhile, stop reading the Bible or there won’t be a movie industry.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-andrew-klavan-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andrew Klavan</a> is the host of The Andrew Klavan Show at The Daily Wire. A popular political satirist and Hollywood screenwriter, Klavan is also an award-winning novelist. His newest novel is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Habit-Mind-Cameron-Mysteries/dp/1613163517/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Strange Habit of Mind</a>, book two in the Cameron Winter Mystery series.
The views expressed in this satirical article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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A Connecticut state trooper who charged that the State Police Union (CSPU) and Department of Emergency Services (DESPP) demoted him from a prestigious position for refusing to join the union membership and contribute to its politics <a href="https://www.nrtw.org/news/mercer-cspu-settlement-04282023/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">won</a> a $260,500 settlement.
State Trooper Joseph Mercer, whose case was represented by staff attorneys at the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, was appointed Operations Sergeant of the Emergency Services Unit in May 2015. The next month, CSPU President Andrew Matthews filed two grievances targeting Mercer, one stating no “selection process” had been implemented to fill the position and another alleging Mercer had mismanaged an incident involving an armed suspect. In October 2015, Matthews reportedly met with Dora Schriro, then the Commissioner of the DESPP; Schriro subsequently transferred Mercer to an administrative post.
Mercer filed suit in 2016. In May 2022, a district court ordered DESPP Commissioner James Rovella, Schriro’s replacement, to turn over additional discovery.
“We at the Foundation are proud to have defended Sergeant Mercer’s rights and secured him a settlement that vindicates his free association,” National Right to Work Foundation President Mark Mix stated. “However, it’s disgraceful that CSPU union officials targeted Mercer, a dedicated public safety officer, with such a vicious retribution scheme in the first place. Public servants should not have to endure multi-year lawsuits just so they can refrain from supporting union politics they oppose.”
“Situations like these demonstrate why the Foundation-won Janus v. AFSCME decision, which the U.S. Supreme Court decided while Mercer’s case was ongoing, is so important,” Mix added. “As was obvious in Mercer’s case, unelected public sector union bosses often wield their enormous clout over government to serve the union’s private interests over the public interest. That’s why it’s vital that public employees can exercise their First Amendment Janus right to cut off all financial support of union bosses who are contorting government in this way.”
In late June 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in <a href="https://standwithworkers.org/s/Janus-v-AFSCME-Decision.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Janus v. AFSCME</a> that non-union government workers could not be forced to pay union fees in order to work in public service jobs. Millions of teachers, first responders and other government workers were affected.
Plaintiff Mark Janus <a href="https://libertyjusticecenter.org/cases/janus-v-afscme/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reacted</a>, “I’m thrilled that the Supreme Court has restored not only my First Amendment rights, but the rights of millions of other government workers across the country. So many of us have been forced to pay for political speech and policy positions with which we disagree, just so we can keep our jobs. This is a victory for all of us. The right to say ‘no’ to a union is just as important as the right to say ‘yes.’ Finally our rights have been restored.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/teachers-unions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">American Federation of Teachers</a> President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/randi-weingarten" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Randi Weingarten</a> contended that her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/unions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">union</a> neither extended the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/school-lockdowns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lockdowns</a> which shuttered government schools for several months nor improperly helped the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cdc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CDC</a> draft their pandemic response policies.
Weingarten, who is scheduled to testify on Wednesday before members of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic about her organization’s conduct amid the pandemic, said in prepared <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Prepared-Statement-of-AFT-President-Randi-Weingarten.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarks</a> that the entire hearing is based on a “faulty” and “patently false” assertion that the union wielded its influence with Democrats to keep schools closed even after data indicated that young children were at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/only-2-of-childrens-deaths-were-from-covid-and-school-closures-didnt-reduce-the-number" target="_blank" rel="noopener">minimal</a> risk from COVID.
“Even before COVID-19, we knew that kids learn best in person, and that remote, hybrid and simultaneous instruction are not adequate substitutes,” she told lawmakers. “Being in school is essential to children’s academic, social and emotional well-being. We know this not as a matter for study or the grist for a congressional investigation. We know this because we live it every day.”
Weingarten claimed that the AFT “acted quickly” to implement “science-based measures needed to resume in-person schooling safely.” The union, however, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/five-cities-where-teachers-unions-are-keeping-schools-shutdown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threatened</a> a strike days ahead of a planned reopening of District of Columbia Public Schools in February 2021, even as Weingarten insisted that her organization was “not trying to stand in the way of reopening.” As late as July 2021, Weingarten <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-claims-schools-reopened-in-spite-of-republicans-here-are-several-videos-of-democrats-defending-closed-schools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remained</a> cagey on school lockdowns and insisted that increasing vaccination rates was necessary to “keep kids safe” and “keep our members safe.”
She instead blamed former President Donald Trump, former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, suggesting that those officials were responsible for school closures in her Wednesday remarks because they did not implement the health measures the AFT deemed necessary.
“We knew that the safety protocols we advocated for were not an obstacle to reopening schools, as some officials claimed at the time,” she continued. “Health and safety protocols were the pathway for students and staff to get back to school and stay in school and to create trust throughout the school community.”
Weingarten additionally claimed that polls now show parents believe “schools acted appropriately in pivoting to remote and hybrid learning and back to in-person learning.” The school lockdowns, however, drove unprecedented learning loss among children who attended government schools: average reading scores <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nations-report-card-indicates-worst-decline-in-math-and-reading-scores-in-decades" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plummeted</a> five points and average mathematics scores dropped seven points among 9-year-olds who took the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress.
Parents have since responded to disruptions in the nation’s education system, which also included the spread of radical gender theory and other Left-wing ideologies, over the past three years by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/is-the-right-to-homeschooling-under-attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">homeschooling</a> their children at record levels, a phenomenon which Weingarten <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/extremist-scheme-teachers-union-boss-blasts-education-reforms-homeschooling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> an “extremist scheme” to “erode trust in public schools by stoking fear and division.”
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The AFT also provoked controversy after House Republicans <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-administration-gave-teachers-union-unprecedented-access-to-shape-national-covid-19-guidelines-report-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> that the CDC offered Weingarten and other union officials “unprecedented access” to view and shape pandemic response guidelines, a privilege that the officials reportedly used to implement a “trigger” provision that would cause schools to automatically close should COVID test positivity rates reach certain thresholds. Weingarten claimed on Wednesday that the involvement of the AFT in crafting public health policies was “completely fitting and proper” since the CDC should be expected to “consult with education groups.”
“Not surprisingly, the CDC would want to consult with the leadership of the country’s largest teachers union to consider our insights, expertise and suggestions on a strategy that would directly affect our membership in matters of life and death,” she asserted. “AFT leadership was keenly aware of the hopes and fears of our members, whose trust and acceptance were necessary for the success of any operational strategy.”

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Teacher Union Boss Randi Weingarten Denies Group Delayed School Openings Or Wrongly Meddled With CDC Guidelines

Teacher Union Boss Denies Group Delayed School Openings Or Meddled With CDC Guidelines

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A union representing employees of the Social Security Administration has demanded that the Biden administration kill a new &#8220;pronoun policy&#8221; geared toward transgender workers, saying it forces political views on members.
American Federation of Government Employees Local 2505 filed a Union-Management Grievance Friday over a policy announced internally on Wednesday called the &#8220;Policy on Prohibiting Discrimination, Including Harassment, Based on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, or Gender Expression,&#8221; which the agency calls the Pronoun Policy for short. The union, which represents 600 low-level employees in Oklahoma and Arkansas, said the policy changed restroom access, the dress code, and &#8220;created a new form with the employee&#8217;s name, gender identity, pronouns.&#8221;
&#8220;All of the changes are violations of Article 1, Section 2 as they changed existing terms and conditions of employment,&#8221; the grievance said. &#8220;Having made these changes without advanced notice and the opportunity to bargain, in addition to SSA violating 5 USC 71, SSA also violated Article 1, Section 2.&#8221;
The grievance went on to say the policy violates employees’ freedom of religion and free speech rights by forcing workers to address people by their preferred pronouns and creates a hostile work environment for employees who do not agree for political or religious reasons.
&#8220;This new policy will create a chilling effect on them and is essentially forcing them to agree with this political view in spite of their own personal political or religious beliefs,” it added.
On March 1, SSA Acting Commissioner Kilolo Kijakazi announced the policy to employees with the subject &#8220;Building an Equitable and Inclusive Culture: Gender Identity.&#8221;
&#8220;Soon, you will receive notice of a mandatory training to help you prepare for full implementation of the policy, which will happen on March 31, 2023. Available starting March 2, this training will increase your knowledge of using pronouns and gender-neutral language and supporting employees and colleagues in the workplace,&#8221; the email said.
The 27-page policy, obtained by The Daily Wire, defines the terms agender, bigender, cisgender, gender diverse, genderfluid, genderqueer, and gender nonconforming, nonbinary, and two-spirit, and lays out numerous ways in which the agency will support employees who wish to transition to one of those categories.
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&#8220;The agency makes note that every transition is different, and some employees may want none of these changes, all of these changes, some of these changes, or additional changes not listed in these procedures,&#8221; it said.
It provides a 19-part form to be filled out to manage an employee&#8217;s gender transition, and an email template for managers to announce an employee&#8217;s new gender that says &#8220;The agency supports [PROPER NAME] in their transition/affirmation&#8230; If you are interested in learning more about how SSA supports gender transition/affirmation, I invite you to refer to [insert link to policy/COSS statement of choice].&#8221;
It says transgender employees may use the bathroom of their choice, and that &#8220;continued intentional misuse of an employee’s name or pronoun could&#8230; lead to disciplinary action.”
“At meetings, employees, managers, and supervisors can introduce themselves with the pronouns they use, which may prompt others at the meeting to share the pronouns they use, e.g., &#8216;Hello, my name is Michael. My pronouns are he/him.&#8217; Additionally, employees, managers, and supervisors should consider including their proper names, pronunciations of their names, and pronouns in their email signatures, e.g., Brianne (Bree-anne) Doe (they/theirs),” it adds.
Ralph Dejuliis, the union local president, said two employees have already asked for a religious exemption. He told The Daily Wire that under Kijakazi, social justice initiatives were distracting the agency from basic issues that were preventing it from serving needy Americans efficiently.
“SSA has already put out a video for all the employees to watch on gender transition. How many people have been working on this… when it takes six months to get an initial disability decision?” he said.
Dejuliis said his personal politics are liberal and progressive, but he finds it inappropriate to force any brand of politics on people through a government job.
“It’s forcing everyone to have a liberal socially work position,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I represent people in Oklahoma and Arkansas. Half the people I represent have concealed carry permits. They are not woke.&#8221;
The policy has “a name for people who don’t like gays and transgender: transphobic. You make up a special name to demonize people? Why don’t you call me sinner because I don’t go to your church?” he said.
A spokesman for the Social Security Administration dismissed the local chapter&#8217;s complaint.
&#8220;The allegations in this locally filed grievance are inaccurate,&#8221; Mark Hinkle told The Daily Wire. &#8220;We have resolved the bargaining obligations associated with the referenced policy with all of the unions representing Social Security employees, at the national level.&#8221;
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In Kijakazi’s email to staff, she said “I want to thank everyone including the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) workgroup, our union partners, and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer + (LGBTQ+) Advisory Council for your collaboration.”
But Dejuliis said he was blindsided by the policy.
“The union’s role is to enforce its contract,” he said. “When they’re telling our members we will discipline you for not following this new policy, that’s a violation of this contract and protections of constitutional rights. You can’t order me to say certain things that are not related to my job.”
Kijakazi’s email added that, &#8220;In my Pride Month video message last June, I discussed the agency’s work to increase equity and equality for gender-diverse and transgender customers. In October, the agency began offering people the choice to self-select their sex in their SSN record, without needing to provide medical or legal documentation of their sex identity… Our new internal Pronoun Policy marks the latest milestone in our work to support President Biden’s Executive Order on Preventing and Combatting Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation.&#8221;
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Union Says Biden Administration Violated Labor Rules With New Transgender Policy

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After the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House of Representatives</a> advanced a bill on Wednesday meant to avert a looming nationwide <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/railroads" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rail</a> strike, Sen. <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/bernie-sanders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bernie Sanders</a> (I-VT) vowed to block the measure in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate</a>.
Unions and rail companies previously agreed to a tentative deal providing workers a 24% pay raise and more robust healthcare benefits, although a handful of labor organizations rejected the agreement due to a lack of paid sick days. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said in a <a href="https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/112922-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to lawmakers on Tuesday evening that the lower chamber would “take action to protect the economic security of America’s working families and avert a devastating nationwide rail strike,” echoing a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-calls-for-congressional-intervention-to-avoid-potentially-crippling-rail-strike" target="_blank" rel="noopener">call</a> from President Joe Biden.
Legislation enforcing the tentative agreement passed on Wednesday by a margin of 290 to 137, with eight Democrats and 129 Republicans voting against the bill. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) affirmed that the upper chamber would move as quickly as possible to advance the bill to the White House.
Sanders, however, <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1597709690699489280?s=20&amp;t=iD67NiKf3PIGloPjEW0Ypg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarked</a> on social media that workers should receive at least seven paid sick days as rail companies earn “record profits.” He intends to “block consideration of the rail legislation” until a roll call vote guarantees workers the benefit.
Biden meanwhile thanked members of both parties in the House for advancing the legislation and stressed the urgency of deliberations in the Senate.
“Without the certainty of a final vote to avoid a shutdown this week, railroads will begin to halt the movement of critical materials like chemicals to clean our drinking water as soon as this weekend,” he said in a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/11/30/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-house-action-to-avert-rail-shutdown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. “Without action this week, disruptions to our auto supply chains, our ability to move food to tables, and our ability to remove hazardous waste from gasoline refineries will begin.”
The daily economic cost of a nationwide rail shutdown could amount to $2 billion, according to a <a href="https://www.aar.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/AAR-Rail-Shutdown-Report-September-2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Association of American Railroads, while a <a href="https://rilastagemedia.blob.core.windows.net/rila-web/rila.web/media/media/pdfs/supply%20chain/rila-rail-labor-dispute.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> from the Retail Industry Leaders Association addressed to Biden noted that freight rail accounts for 40% of long-distance shipping volume in the United States. Members of Congress can exercise authority over interstate commerce to intervene in rail labor negotiations under the Railway Labor Act of 1926.
Hundreds of business groups have encouraged Congress to compel acceptance of the tentative agreement. A <a href="https://nrf.com/media-center/press-releases/retailers-encouraged-house-approval-tentative-agreement-averting-rail" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> from the National Retail Federation lauded the House for approving the legislation.
“America’s railroads serve nearly every sector of our economy and provide access to global markets. The freight rail system is a lifeline for many industries, ensuring the transport of not only retail goods, but also essential food and energy supplies,” the group said. “It is imperative that the Senate now acts immediately to approve the measure and send it to President Biden’s desk.”
Biden and Pelosi have expressed reluctance to disrupt union negotiations since the commander-in-chief <a href="https://joebiden.com/empowerworkers/#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">campaigned</a> for the Oval Office in favor of collective bargaining. One of the unions which rejected the tentative agreement <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/union-allies-turn-on-pro-labor-biden-for-trying-to-prevent-looming-rail-strike" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the organization “is deeply disappointed by and disagrees with” actions from the Biden administration to prevent the strike.

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House Passes Legislation To Avoid A Nationwide Rail Strike. Bernie Sanders Intends To Block It.

Bernie Sanders Intends To Block Legislation Passed By House To Avert Rail Strike

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The president of the nation’s largest freight railway <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/unions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">union</a> is warning that Congress will likely get involved in order to resolve disagreements between employers and union members and steer clear of a strike. 
“I’m hopeful, but I doubt it’s really in the cards,” SMART Transportation Division President Jeremy Ferguson <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/22/jeremy-ferguson-rail-union-strike-congressional-intervention-00070395" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Politico Monday night. “I’ve got a lot of issues that are outstanding; that are reasons why our guys voted it down.”
SMART-TD said Monday that the union’s members had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rail-strike-threat-returns-as-union-group-rejects-latest-offer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> against a contract with freight railroads. A cooling-off period ends on December 4, which doesn’t allow the members to stop working. At that point, they could strike. 
“Something’s gotta happen by then, otherwise we’ll all walk,” Ferguson said. “It’s such a short time frame. I think we’re going to see Congress panic and step in here at some point next week, unfortunately.”
Even though eight unions have <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/11/21/1137640529/railroads-freight-rail-unions-vote-contract-strike" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accepted</a> the agreement, if one union decides to go on strike, all of them will join in and honor the picket lines. The president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), one of the biggest rail unions, said as much, noting that the group will adhere to the December 5 strike date of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen (BRS). As of Monday, the BRS had not said if it would prolong the cooling-off period to hit a strike date of December 9.
“Our members will certainly honor the picket line of BRS,” BLET president Dennis Pierce <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/21/if-rail-strike-begins-every-union-will-honor-picket-line-says-blet.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CNBC. “I think every union will.” 
But Ferguson believes Congress will get involved before the deadline. Congress <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/20/rail-union-congress-strike-00069488" target="_blank" rel="noopener">could</a> decide to put in place recommendations made by a board appointed by President Joe Biden, prolong the cooling-off period, or enforce the unions’ provisional deals. 
He is also negotiating with rail carriers again on Tuesday with other unions that have rejected the provisional contracts. 
“We’ll see if it goes anywhere,” Ferguson said, however, “carriers haven’t been willing to move with the other three unions” — “and already, our agreement has a lot of work rules changes in which theirs really didn’t.” He added that “it’s a bigger hill for us to climb.”
A potential strike right before the holiday season in the United States would be destructive to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/economy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">economy</a> of a nation that is already struggling under inflation and high costs of essential items. Price <a href="https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-congress-government-and-politics-79d2e2c2779598b0a14396464ee4f7e9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">increases</a> of gasoline, as well as a low supply of grocery items, could be expected if the groups do not come to an agreement. The strike could also effect shipping as FedEx and UPS both use the railways on some level, although the companies haven’t spoken about the situation at length.
“Fortunately, this year’s holiday gifts have already landed on store shelves. But an interruption to rail transportation does pose a significant challenge to getting items like perishable food products and e-commerce shipments delivered on time, and it will undoubtedly add to the inflationary pressures already hitting the U.S. economy,” Jess Dankert of the Retail Industry Leaders Association <a href="https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-congress-government-and-politics-79d2e2c2779598b0a14396464ee4f7e9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Associated Press. 
A railway strike “would effectively bring hundreds of America’s largest food, beverage, household and personal care manufacturing operations to a halt in a matter of days as inputs and ingredients run out. On-shelf availability and accessibility will quickly drop, compounded by almost inevitable panic buying,&#8221; Tom Madrecki of the Consumer Brands Association said.
A work stoppage at the railways could also impact traveling passengers since a lot of the passenger railroads run on freight railroad tracks. The railroads could also decide to stop sending certain dangerous materials and perishable food items in advance if no agreement is reached close to the cutoff time. 
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/dillon-burroughs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dillon Burroughs</a> contributed to this report.

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President Of Rail Union Says Congress Involvement Likely Ahead Of Looming Strike

President Of Rail Union SMART Transportation Division President Jeremy Ferguson Says Congress Involvement Likely Ahead Of Looming Strike

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