Biden's backing of striking US car workers could come back to bite him

A fortnight ago US president Joe Biden said he was not worried about a threatened strike by car workers and that he did not think it would actually happen. Now employees at three of the main unionised car manufacturers, General Motors, Ford and Stellantis - which owns the Chrysler, Jeep and Ram brands in the US - are on the picket lines, creating potentially very significant political and economic problems for the White House. On Friday about 13,000 members of the UAW trade union stopped work at car plants in Ohio, Michigan and Missouri after talks to the three companies…