Posted on 09/05/2023 6:48:40 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
DETROIT (AP) — A 46% pay raise. A 32-hour week with 40 hours of pay. A restoration of traditional pensions.
The demands that a more combative United Auto Workers union has pressed on General Motors, Stellantis and Ford — demands that even the UAW’s own president calls “audacious” — are edging it closer to a strike when its contract ends Sept. 14.
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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.
A strike will drive the costs of used and new cars up from where they are now. Supply and demand.
Our domestic economy is teetering.
All part of the plan to make personal transportation unaffordable for the common man.
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.
Ain't no maybe.
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.
We already gave all our ammo, most weapons, sissified the military with weaklings and sex deviates, and anything to defend our turd world country, to Ukraine/CIA/New World Order".
That's the whole idea: we are defenseless, and under their control now (they rubbed your faces in it, in Nov. 2020)
—”A strike will drive the costs of used and new cars up from where they are now. Supply and demand.”
A minor problem for UAW...
Auto workers in China Korea and Japan are not on strike and will gladly satisfy demand.
A used Caddy land yacht will continue to depreciate.
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.
Sad but true.
I guess the guys in the union, members and union honchos, are either too young, don’t remember nor care about how Michigan lost all the car building stuff back in the day.
Union plans and demands, along with a willing group in Congress and Wall St, paved the way to send all of those jobs to another country. All while the foreign car companies set up, union free shops, in places like Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama and Georgia.
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.
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