加薪25%！美国车企三巨头与汽车工人达成协议，拜登：今天的历史性协议是经济领域的又一大好消息！（附视频&演讲稿）

-Before I begin, I want to explain  why I was delayed a few minutes. 

I have just spoken with President Fain  of the United Auto Workers,  and let me say a few words about the UAW  and the Big Three automakers -- Ford,  General Motors, and Stellantis. 

They have reached an historic agreement  and a hard-fought agreement that was really battled for a while,  but it was all done in good faith. 

And these record agreements reward autoworkers  who gave up much to keep the industry working  and going during the financial crisis  more than a decade ago. 

These agreements ensure the iconic Big Three  can still lead the world in quality and innovation. 

Due to the commitment and solidarity of the UAW workers  willing to exercise their right,  their right to collectively bargain,  they've won a record contract with over a 30% increase  in wages, greater retirement security,  and more paid leave,  and a commitment by the big Three  to create more full-time middle class jobs  and invest tens of billions more dollars  in plants and factories building automobiles'  future here in America. 

I applaud the UAW  and the leaders of the automobile companies  for agreeing that all the workers on strike  and all those who were walking the picket lines  on behalf of the UAW, brothers and sisters,  can go back to work immediately, even before the vote is taken. 

Ultimately, the final word on this contract  will be for the UAW memberships themselves in the days  and coming weeks as they vote. 

But here's what I know and what I shared  with the United Auto Workers that I met in the picket line. 

I've always believed that the middle class built America  and that unions built the middle class. 

And that's especially the case for United Auto Workers,  who built the iconic automobile industry. 

For too long, in my view,  the economy hasn't worked for working people  and for middle class folks, because when they do well,  by the way, everybody does well. 

That's why I came to office determined to build an economy,  to build from the middle out  and the bottom up instead of the top down. 

It's a critical piece of worker power,  and it's showing how collective bargaining works  by providing workers a seat at the table  to honor their contributions to their employer's success  by securing pay and benefits  they can raise a family on and retire with dignity and respect. 

It's showing how collective bargaining works for companies,  how a strong relationship between workers and management  can mean record profits leading to record contracts. 

We're also seeing across the board, for the UAW workers,  we're seeing this everywhere -- rail workers, port workers,  teamsters, writers,  health workers, and workers on other industries organizing  by collective bargaining. 

Folks, look, today's historic agreement  is yet another piece of good economic news  showing something I've always believed. 

Worker power. 

Worker power is critical to building an economy  from the middle out and the bottom up,  and so is economic growth.