My read on that is they don’t want to be shut out for the next four years,” Josh Hawley said of his meeting with the UAW.

The Missouri Republican is urging his party to pursue pro-labor moves, and he’s already amassing worker allies.

The UAW has thrown its backing behind a security crackdown at Ford factories, including bag searches and the stationing of plainclothes officers, amid a mounting social and political crisis in the US ...

Simply put, bargaining at a wider scale would mean that more people receive union contracts, which will boost their wages, while helping to contribute to reducing income inequality.