It’s important to make the distinction between the skilled and the unskilled and OEM’s and their suppliers. OEM’s and suppliers should be retaining their skilled “workers” in the US whether they belong to a union or not. Developing and updating their skills is worth investing in. You never know when OEM’s and suppliers might have to shift into war time production again.
I kept my mouth shut until now. I’m a production worker for an OEM supplier. Just outside of Detroit. I was thinking about driving past a couple of Ford plants this morning on the way home from work and counting the cars in the parking lots, but I figured, why bother? People say Detroit is doomed.