Posted on 11/29/2023 1:58:24 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
After ratifying new contracts with automakers following its weeks-long strike, United Auto Workers (UAW) announced plans Wednesday to try to organize workers at more than a dozen factories not currently part of the union.
The newest push for workplace improvement will organize more than 150,000 autoworkers across 13 different automakers: BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Lucid, Mazda, Mercedes, Nissan, Rivian, Subaru, Tesla, Toyota, Volkswagen and Volvo, the union said in a release.
The announcement comes just days after UAW ratified new contracts with “the Big Three” automakers, Ford, General Motors and Stallantis, after a successful six-week strike earned workers better pay and benefits for years to come.
The union said the strongest push will be at the Toyota assembly complex in Georgetown, Ky., where almost 8,000 employees make Camry, RAV4 and Lexus ES vehicles.
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I used to be a contractor. Open shop. We did concrete work. Every now and then, I would quote a job for a driveway to someone who had a UAW bumper sticker on their pickup. Most of the time I would bite my tongue, but every once in a while I would ask why they didn’t want to hire a union contractor to do the work. They would look at me like I had two heads.
They’ve tried this before.
consumer reports just issued the best quality cars...top 7 were Japanese cars...they dont need any UAW slime...
They’re going to keep trying until they get the outcome they demand.
If a Toyota or Honda plant unionized I wonder what the company would do?
I’m unsure if Nissan leased their place in Tennesse or not but it use to be said if that plant unionized, the company was prepared to load equipment up in short order and exit fast.
If that happens once there would be no further attempts.
Wonder what happens when the foreign car makers head south of the border?
Wonder if someone is going to do some math and research to find out who exactly paid the construction costs for all these car plants in Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama? I’m thinking that with all the tax breaks these companies get that at the end of the day, the taxpayers footed most, if not all, of the bills. Just like they do football stadiums, etc.
Rivian....they’ve been laying folks off for at least a year, now. Who’s left? Wonder if they’ll try to unionize their workers in Georgia, if/when its disastrouns plant opens up... a Right To Work state and one of the big reasons that many car companies are in the South.
Hyundai gets caught with underage workers. Most of these other plants are operating lots of vacant positions. It’s been a while since I’ve driven through Chattanooga, but I do remember seeing billboards for the VW plant.
I so much wanted the smirk wiped off the face of that Shawn Fain of the UAW. Stupid automakers caved to that lowlife.
Wears Eat The Rich shirt at press conferences.
Compares business leaders of auto industry Leads marches that look like Hamas mobs.
What’s not to like?
Origin of phrase used by socialists ——
“Eat the Rich” is commonly attributed to Jean Jacques Rousseau, a renowned political philosopher and leading figure in the French Revolution. The original quote goes like this: “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.” “The rich” that Rousseau was referring to was anyone in power.
Way back over a century ago - Unions despite the corruption even then) did a service to workers. Many reasonable safety conditions, work environments, and reasonable labor practices came about... but as the unions rapidly gained power - and influence on a political stage, as union bosses became extremely wealthy without a bit of their own sweat labor invested - they became nothing more than political entities using workers as pawns for their own pocketbooks... and then for political agendas far outside the industries they supposedly represented.
Now - the unions have literally bankrupted every US carmaker - and have helped push this nation ever closer to a socialist hellhole...
What’s crazy: “Union Made” at one time kind of meant at least a little. But the climax of that label - was when US Automakers had become the total laughing stock of the world - only surpassed in quality failures by the Soviet Block (Russia/Yougoslavia).
I believe in buying American, but I won't fault anyone who refuses to buy a UAW made vehicle. If that means buying foreign because all of the US plants have chosen to align with the UAW, then so be it.
Honda must have a unique management model. A few years ago I read somewhere that the company has union plants all over the world but hasn’t had a strike anywhere since 1957.
I agree.
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