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Auto CEOs Struggling With Whether To Replace Striking Workers With Robots Or Mexicans
The Babylon Bee ^ | Sept. 15 2023 | The Babylon Bee

Posted on 09/16/2023 11:07:20 AM PDT by xp38

DETROIT, MI — With UAW workers officially on strike to demand a 4-day, 32-hour work week, leadership with the Big Three automakers are reportedly struggling with whether to replace the union workers with robots or Mexicans.

"We really could go either way on this," said Ford CEO Jim Farley while lighting up a Cuban cigar with a stack of $100 dollar bills. "On one hand, robots work perfectly and tirelessly without complaining around the clock. On the other hand, President Biden is welcoming thousands and thousands of Mexicans across the border every day who will happily do these jobs for 32 cents per hour, 70 hours per week. What to do?"

"This is a real conundrum."

According to reports, there are currently 32,000 illegal migrants patiently waiting outside the picket line to take the place of the autoworkers while providing a superior work ethic for pennies on the dollar.

"We are tired of greedy corporations taking advantage of the American worker," said UAW President Shawn Fain. "We demand infinity money for less work forever. And we want to work from home. We believe this is more than reasonable."

At publishing time, automaker leadership elected to compromise and go with the robots but hire Mexicans to build them.


TOPICS: Humor; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bee
Robots built by Mexicans...what could go wrong?
1 posted on 09/16/2023 11:07:20 AM PDT by xp38
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To: xp38

Better than robots built by Chinese.


2 posted on 09/16/2023 11:08:26 AM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: Fai Mao

I would choose robots. More trustworthy than foreigners.


3 posted on 09/16/2023 11:17:12 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: glorgau

Gotta go with the robots.


4 posted on 09/16/2023 11:18:19 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: gibsonguy

Robots smell better


5 posted on 09/16/2023 11:24:39 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: xp38

According to reports, there are currently 32,000 illegal migrants patiently waiting outside the picket line to take the place of the autoworkers while providing a superior work ethic for pennies on the dollar.

“We are tired of greedy corporations taking advantage of the American worker,” said UAW President Shawn Fain. “We demand infinity money for less work forever. And we want to work from home. We believe this is more than reasonable.”

At publishing time, automaker leadership elected to compromise and go with the robots but hire Mexicans to build them.


6 posted on 09/16/2023 11:36:40 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Georgia just made Trump’s campaign he with a a-free image winning him nomination!))
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To: xp38

Well the unions always demanded their members vote democrat! Now the members see just how the democrats really view them by bringing in lots of Mexicans to replace the striking workers.


7 posted on 09/16/2023 11:37:37 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: xp38

Bidens untied the Gordian Knot.

He brought the third world to the United States to keep wages low and workers frightened. So no one has to choose between Mexicans and Robots. And as a bonus liberal ‘elties’ get to rape the children who are trafficked across the border.

Biden’s got all the basses covered.


8 posted on 09/16/2023 11:44:56 AM PDT by GOPJ (Our side must NOT work with democrats. Or we'll Bud Light them...)
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To: glorgau
would choose robots. More trustworthy than foreigners.

Also, no need to worry about: calling off, excessive breaks, attitude issues, and playing on the phone.

9 posted on 09/16/2023 11:56:11 AM PDT by voicereason (When a bartender can join Congress and become a millionaire...there’s a problem.)
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To: xp38

Wetbacks are the natural choice...
They are needed to add to Soros’ 2024 guaranteed-communist voter lists...


10 posted on 09/16/2023 12:24:45 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: xp38
According to reports, there are currently 32,000 illegal migrants patiently waiting outside the picket line to take the place of the autoworkers while providing a superior work ethic for pennies on the dollar.

I misread that as illegals trying to get pay from the union to walk the picket line. Locally when they were trying to protest in front of a non-union grocery store, the union could not get any of the grocery workers to do it on their off hours so the union had to hire outsiders.

11 posted on 09/16/2023 12:55:13 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago )
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To: xp38
increased labor costs increase costs of production, which increases prices, which adds to inflation, which hurts consumers, and makes American companies less competitive, which helps China

thanks unions

12 posted on 09/16/2023 1:09:19 PM PDT by mjp (pro-freedom & pro-wealth $)
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To: chickenlips

Everyone is aware that this is satire, correct? Just barely, but satire none the less.


13 posted on 09/16/2023 1:13:29 PM PDT by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians)
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To: xp38
Robots built by Mexicans...what could go wrong?

hecho en mexico

14 posted on 09/16/2023 2:25:36 PM PDT by Bobalu (The political prosecution of Donald Trump marks the official end of US democracy.)
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To: xp38
I hate to break it to you, but Tesla will be stamping out robots like cookies before 2025. operating on neural net software, with an IQ higher, probably, that of a lot of folks. And do motivation to complain about anything.

Meanwhile, AI will decimate white collar work as well. It’s gonna get real interesting to figure out how to organize society after there are machines to do everything.


15 posted on 09/16/2023 2:28:04 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (A jury represents society. It presumes the innocence of anyone the government undertakes to punish)
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To: butlerweave

I use Hoppe’s # 7 Cologne, but 3-In-1 Oil makes a nice Aftershave.


16 posted on 09/16/2023 3:27:57 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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