Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) joined striking United Auto Workers (UAW) members on the picket line Tuesday in Tappan, N.Y.
“We’re gonna fight until we win,” Schumer said in a video posted to the UAW’s account on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
“My father, who was a union guy taught me … when you’re doing the right thing, when you’re doing something important, look in your heart, make sure it’s the right thing. And then if you persist and persist and persist, God will reward you and you will succeed,” he said. “We are going to persist and we are going to succeed.”
Schumer’s visit to the picket line came on the same day President Biden made the unprecedented move of joining UAW members in Michigan on the picket line. He talked to the striking workers alongside UAW President Shawn Fain.
“Wall Street didn’t build the country. The middle class built the country. Unions built the middle class,” Biden told the workers.
“Let’s keep going; you deserve what you’ve earned, and you deserve a hell of a lot more than what you’re getting paid now,” he continued.
UAW endorsed Biden’s presidential bid in 2020, but it has withheld their support in his bid for reelection. Fain has said the union members “expect action, not words.”
“Our endorsements are going to be earned,” Fain said earlier this month. “We’ve been very clear about that, no matter what politician.”
Former President Trump is also planning a visit to Michigan this week. The presumptive GOP nominee is set to speak with workers Wednesday.