A United Auto Workers member on a picket line outside the Ford Motor Co. Michigan Assembly plant in Wayne, Michigan, on Sept. 15, 2023.
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The Biden administration is no longer sending two key officials to Detroit this week to potentially help broker a deal between striking autoworkers and the Big Three car companies, a White House official told NBC News.
President Joe Biden last week said he would dispatch White House senior advisor Gene Sperling and acting Labor Secretary Julie Su to support discussions between the companies and the United Auto Workers union.
But the White House and the UAW mutually agreed it would be better to speak virtually via Zoom, the official said Tuesday.
Sperling and Su could still go to Detroit next week but there are no firm plans for them to do so, the official added. “We’ll continue to assess travel timing based on the active state of negotiations,” the White House official said.
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