UAW bans “foreign” cars from union property

Radio Vice Online ^ | Sept. 3, 2010 | Steve McGough

[Steve495]

It’s actually been a long-standing policy for many years, but United Auto Workers leadership have confirmed they will continue to enforce the policy and probably be even more aggressive. This is pure marketing genius I tell you, especially for an organization with a serious image problem.

The Detroit News reports that Kansas City Business Journal reporter James Dornbrook learned this lesson the hard way as he was asked to remove his Toyota Camry from Local 249′s parking lot by an unidentified member. The scribe later wrote that his Camry was built at Toyota’s Georgetown, Kentucky plant and that the popular midsize sedan contains more domestic content than the Ford F-150.

[Psalm 144]

Were they kind enough to provide a list of proscribed manufacturers? I could add them to Ford for potential sources whenever it is time to purchase another car.

[bboop]

Wait! It’s a foreign car, BORN in the United States. He should ask for amnesty — and citizenship. And food stamps. And free housing.

[Flightdeck]

autophobia

[Eye of Unk]

Just remove any badging and replace with FORD emblems.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

 

...especially for an organization with a serious image problem....

[MortMan]

It might even be eligible for the presidency!

[Eldon Tyrell]

I think they are just catching on -

Their cars are banned from my garage.

Ford must be so proud!

[Carley]

Nothing new here. The auto unions always disallowed ‘foreign’ cars to be parked in their lots.

[doodad]

I would love to hear their take on the Chevy GTO, built entirely by Holden in Oz.

[Leo Farnsworth]

I ban UAW autos in my garage.

And I ALWAYS will.

I dislike unions very much (and I was a ILWU member for 4-5 years).

[Steve495]

Awesome ... just awesome.

[newnhdad]

looks like most democrats won’t be able to park in union lots.

[bmwcyle]

My KIA was built by rednecks in Georgia.

[RockinRight]

Most “foreign” cars on the road today are manufactured in the US, and in some cases, moreso than “American” nameplates which often have Canada or Mexico as a final place of assembly.

[DustyMoment]

Considering the way that car companies have all intermingled and purchased stakes in each other, this should be interesting to watch!

[TSgt]

I live close to an old Ford Transmission plant in Ohio that shut down a few years ago. There are bumper stickers everywhere on cars that say things like, “You can’t be patriotic and drive a foreign car” or “When you are starving eat your foreign car.”

I like my Honda Pilot, which is now being made in the foreign country of Alabama.

Did I mention the Ford plant closed?

[elpadre]

what about foreign companies who manufacture cars in the US with more American parts than GM and built by Americans??

[elpadre]

what about foreign companies who manufacture cars in the US with more American parts than GM and built by Americans??

[Dr. Sivana]

Oh good grief. I worked a contract in the now shuttered GM Janesville, WI plant. Besides Chevy/GMC Suburbans, the plant manufatured small box trucks. I saw coming off that line both GMC and Mitsubishi trucks. Same materials, same machinery, same workers. Only the badging was different.

Are they gonna check the door jamb to see if my Dodge Dart was made in New Jersey or Windsor, Ontario?