Aboard Air Force One
En Route Belvidere, Illinois
12:07 P.M. EST
MS. DALTON: Good af- — good afternoon, everyone. As you know, we are en route to Belvidere, Illinois, where the President will mark the reopening of the Belvidere Assembly Plant, a plant that Stellantis closed indefinitely in March of 2023.
Under President Biden, the plant is reopening, bringing back more than all of the — more than all of the 1,200 jobs lost and at higher wages. And Stellantis is investing in new multibillion-dollar battery manufacturing, which will add over 1,000 more UAW jobs.
Stellantis is also locating a parts distribution center in Belvidere in 2024.
President Biden will celebrate the labor movement and the fights it has led to increase middle-class wages, ensure record corporate profits mean record wages for workers, and build our economy from the middle out and the bottom up.
The reopening is a key result of the historic contract between the UAW and the Big Three. And it’s the latest example of the President’s economic agenda facilitating wins for workers and communities across the country.
This reopening will create thousands of jobs — rehiring and retooling for EV and EV battery manu- — battery jobs in the same communities where auto jobs have created good-paying union jobs for decades.
Thanks to the contract the UAW negotiated, UAW autoworkers will get more in wage increases in four and a half years than they did over the past 22 years combined.
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