United Auto Staff President Shawn Fain on Monday stated the White Home may have no function in brokering an settlement to finish the autoworkers’ strike because the walkout enters its fourth day with no decision in sight.

“No, in no way,” Fain stated when requested on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” whether or not the White Home might assist the union and Normal Motors, Ford and Stellantis attain a deal.

“This battle isn’t in regards to the president,” Fain stated. “It isn’t in regards to the former president or every other individual previous to that. This battle is in regards to the staff standing up for financial and social justice and getting their fair proportion as a result of they’re fed up with going backwards.”

Fain’s feedback come after President Joe Biden stated on Friday that he would ship performing Labor Secretary Julie Su and White Home senior advisor Gene Sperling to Detroit to assist mediate the negotiations.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen instructed CNBC in an interview Monday that the White Home needs a “win-win” deal. “The 2 sides have to slim their disagreements and to work for a contract that is good for the employees and for the trade as nicely,” Yellen stated.

The strike has entered its fourth day with no decision in sight. Practically 13,000 UAW members are on strike at three key crops in Michigan, Missouri and Ohio.

Biden, who’s up for reelection subsequent yr, typically touts his blue-collar roots and has sought to carefully affiliate himself with the labor motion, however the strikes will take a look at these credentials if the dispute is left unresolved and triggers broader financial disruption. Former President Donald Trump can also be courting help from UAW members, whereas attacking the union’s leaders, as he pursues one other time period within the White Home.

Biden largely sided with the placing staff in his transient deal with Friday, calling on the automakers to share the report income they’ve made lately.

“These report income haven’t been shared pretty, for my part, with the employees,” the president stated.

The autoworkers are demanding a 40% hourly wage enhance, a 32-hour workweek, elimination of compensation tiers, a return to conventional pensions, the restoration of cost-of-living changes in addition to higher trip and household go away advantages amongst different objects.

Fain on Monday stated the union and the automakers stay “far aside” on a number of points. He particularly known as out compensation tiers, wherein staff are paid otherwise for a similar job.

“We now have been very clear from the onset that we wish to finish tiers,” Fain instructed MSNBC. “You could have staff on the road doing the identical job for severely totally different charges of pay and there is not any excuse for that.”

The UAW president stated the union’s members are ready to escalate: “If the businesses do not reply to the members’ calls for then we’ve got to do what we’ve got to do.”

The automakers have stated the union’s calls for would cripple the businesses and put them at a drawback in contrast non-unionized automobile producers. Ford CEO Jim Farley stated in an interview with CNBC on Thursday that the automaker would have gone bankrupt below the UAW’s present calls for.

Ford on Friday briefly laid off 600 staff who are usually not placing at its meeting plant in Wayne, Michigan. GM has stated its meeting plant in Fairfax, Missouri ought to shut down as quickly as this week, impacting 2,000 staff.

Trump on Friday accused the UAW management of failing its members and claimed Biden administration’s efforts to transition to electrical vehicles would lead to manufacturing jobs shifting to China.

“The autoworkers are being offered down the river by their management, and their management ought to endorse Trump,” Trump, who’s the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination, instructed NBC Information in an interview.