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.
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).