On the recordSeptember 18, 2023
The strength of America is in her workers, and today I rise on the floor of the House to stand with the UAW workers around the Nation and those that are striking now in the Midwest. There are UAW workers in Texas, and I stand with them. Can we at least understand that the value of what these workers are advocating for are American values: health benefits; the ability to have a permanent job; the ability to have compensation; to be able to buy and keep a house, or to provide for your family, or to buy a car that you make. This is a crisis that does not have to be. I ask and encourage the Big Three, the automakers, to sit with the UAW workers and resolve this the American way, and that is with fairness and justice and equality for all. UAW is fighting for American workers. American workers over the decades and centuries have helped build this Nation. Let us not continue a strike that does not respond to the basic human needs of the UAW workers. Again, I stand with the workers. I look forward to a reasoned and responsible resolve of all of this. ____________________
