Former Vice President Mike Pence argued Tuesday that the Biden administration’s push towards electric autos was in charge for the historic United Auto Workers strikes underway on the Massive Three Detroit carmakers’ crops.

“I assure you that one of many issues that is driving that strike is that Bidenomics and their green-energy electric-vehicle agenda is sweet for Beijing and unhealthy for Detroit, and American autoworkers realize it,” Pence stated on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

The strike is a “reflection of the failed financial insurance policies of the Biden administration,” stated Pence, whose marketing campaign to win the 2024 Republican presidential has struggled to achieve traction within the polls.

“This drive towards electrical autos, driving folks away from gasoline-powered autos, any auto employee that is paying consideration would know that is not of their long-term curiosity,” he stated.

Pence’s stance on the strikes echoed the one pushed by his former boss, ex-President Donald Trump, the present frontrunner within the GOP nomination contest.

About 12,700 UAW members final week went on strike on the meeting crops of General Motors, Ford Motor, and Stellantis after the auto producers and the union failed to achieve a deal on new labor contracts.

The union’s essential calls for are to acquire extra, and extra equitable, compensation.

The UAW on Monday stated it could announce further strikes in opposition to the businesses if either side don’t make “critical progress” in negotiations by mid-day Friday.

Trump’s remarks in regards to the strike have largely been centered on the rise of electrical automobiles, which he claims will hurt American auto employees.

“The electrical automobiles, robotically, are going to be made in China,” Trump stated in an interview on NBC Information’ “Meet the Press” that aired Sunday.

The Biden administration has taken steps to hasten the auto trade’s transition towards electrical autos as a part of its local weather agenda, intensifying a conflict over gas-versus-electric that was already a political wedge concern within the car-dependent U.S.

Trump has railed in opposition to the UAW’s management, at the same time as he pushes the union to endorse him.

He’s planning to counterprogram subsequent week’s GOP major debate by touring to Detroit to talk with present and former union members.

UAW President Shawn Fain attacked Trump after the previous president introduced that plan.

“Each fiber of our union is being poured into combating the billionaire class and an economic system that enriches folks like Donald Trump on the expense of employees,” Fain stated.

“We will not maintain electing billionaires and millionaires that do not have any understanding what it’s prefer to stay paycheck to paycheck and battle to get by and anticipating them to unravel the issues of the working class,” he stated.

Fain’s union up to now has withheld an endorsement of Biden, a longtime supporter of labor unions, resulting from issues in regards to the transition to electrical autos.