Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) appeared to make a slight dig at her Ohio delegation colleague Sen. J.D. Vance ® during an interaction on a United Auto Workers (UAW) picket line in their home state.
“First time here?” Kaptur asked Vance, according to a video from local station WTVG 13 Action News.
“First time here, yeah,” Vance responded.
“Thank you for coming,” she then said.
The brief conversation followed an awkward interaction during which Kaptur held out a fist as Vance extended an open hand for a shake. Vance then attempted to extend his hand for a fist bump as Kaptur drew her hand back.
Their battery plants. This is a huge deal and just days ago everything I read was that this will never happen. Parts and assembly were already likely to be union, but batteries “are outsourced to this subsidiary down south where there are no unions and we can pay less”.
This is also a huge deal because of government subsidies to bring battery manufacturing to US, tax rebates targetting batteries built in US … let’s not just bring more manufacturing back to US but let’s make them good union jobs!
Even if they got no other concessions, this is huge for UAW future, a huge investment into our economic base