That should pretty much finish off all auto production in this country.
Oh, and good luck ramping up on those tanks, planes and ships when WWIII comes.
Our domestic economy is teetering.
Traditionally the UAW would choose one of the big three to choose as a strike target. Once they got a contract with that company, the others usually fell into line with similar contracts.
Is the UAW changing tactics and targeting all three automakers simultaneously? I hope they have a large strike fund to pay their striking members...
The union bitches are out to help Bidenskyyyyy and his
Dung Beetle Party finish off America. Pretty soon we’ll all be singing Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger songs.
When do all the sob stories start on the local news with the UAW guy just trying to make a living and raise a family?
New cars are damn near out of reach for most folks and these guys want to raise the price even more. Maybe that’s part of the plan. Folks can’t afford a new car. Forced to use public transportation and we fall right into the laps of the globalists and their 15-minute cities.
Or, Wall St just packs up and makes the cars in Mexico and all the UAW guys are out of work and learning how to make solar panels. Because we all know that Congress will do nothing to stop outsourcing and off-shoring of any of those jobs.
Greedy pigs is what I think of. I know the Ford workers in KC are getting high at noon before they go back to work at the Claycomo plant.
The feds want to destroy the automobile industry to save the planet. Except of course for the ruling class.
We don’t need unions anymore now that there are employment laws. Down with unions.
The auto makers are mired in debt. They made huge capital investments in EVs and are seeing no return on investment. Without the loans and hidden subsidies from the current Democrat Administration, they would be bankrupt. The UAW is a Democratic controlled institution. This “conflict” is just theatre by Democrats. The Democrat socialists have successfully taken control of these companies. Beware of holding their stocks or bonds.
Biden said no way a strike will happen.
The only real victims are the shareholders in those OEM’s.
Note the article date:
On Tuesday, Trump threatened to slap a “big border tax” on General Motors for importing compact cars to the US market from Mexico.
Hours later, Ford announced it had cancelled plans to build a $1.6bn plant in Villa de Reyes, saying that instead it would expand a facility in Michigan.
Trump greeted the move as “just the beginning”. Two days later, he turned his sights on Toyota, again threatening punitive taxes if the Japanese company continued with plans to open a new plant in Baja California.
Let them strike.
“Providing jobs for over one million workers nationwide, Mexico’s automotive industry hosts a workforce known for its skill and low-cost structure.”
https://tetakawi.com/industries/automotive/
“UAW represents 46,000 workers at GM, 57,000 workers at Ford and 44,000 workers at Stellantis, according to the union.”
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/uaw-vote-authorizes-strike-big-3-automakers/story?id=102562124
Time to looking for or fixing up used vehicles.
I would like to know who Fain was referencing in this comment. If you work on the assembly line or in fabrication, you can't really do that remotely.
I do get his point about how corporate is a bit different--there are those who abuse the remote work, and if the plants need answers from those individuals and they are not responsive, its bad--and that is on management..
Good luck with that.
It affirms what I have been thinking for the last 2 years.
The Chinese are trying to destroy the remains of the USA car market.
They are using President Diapers connections with the Unions to push them over the edge.
End result is both Unions and Big Three are destroyed and China walks in and takes their market.
So if (as I’ve read) Ford is losing (depending on the model) about $9,000 to $66,000 per EV they make, if the UAW shuts down their production lines, Ford won’t be digging their EV hole any deeper?
I think they’re doing this because they’re pissed at Biden. The UAW is not onboard with the electric car cheerleading, combine that with the denigration of gas-powered cars within the Democrat Party elite, this could be a shot across the bow to the environmentalist wing of the Democrat party. I guarantee this wouldn’t be happening if Trump was still president. The traditional unions are growing disillusioned with the Democrats and may actually start listening to the rank-and-file for once, and conservatives can start to solidify their hold on blue-collar workers. They just have to get rid of the Paul Ryan/Mitt Romney a-holes first.
We should not forget the big American plants building Hondas, Nissans, Toyotas, Hyundais and VW’s here in the USA and building lots of new vehicles Americans buy in BIG numbers.