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- Hawley and Vance support striking auto workers, but they're not on the same page as union leadership.
- It's a sign of the challenges for them in re-aligning the GOP toward the working class.
- Both senators also don't support the PRO Act, the labor movement's top legislative priority.
As strikes at auto manufacturing plants continue across the country, some populist-minded Republicans are breaking from their party's long-standing orthodoxies and backing the United Auto Workers' demands.