White House Cancels Detroit Deployment Amid UAW Strike

The White House has decided not to send a team to Detroit this week to support negotiations between the United Auto Workers (UAW) and automakers, opting instead to engage with UAW leadership and the companies from Washington, DC. The decision was made to give the parties space to continue negotiating. President Biden has expressed his support for the UAW workers and believes that their record corporate profits should result in record contracts. The UAW president has stated that the president's team is not key to brokering an agreement. Biden has faced pressure to increase his support for the striking workers, but his power to intervene in the negotiations is limited.