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UAW strike latest: GM sends 2,000 workers home in Kansas
Npr ^ | 09/20/2023 | Camila Domonoske

Posted on 09/20/2023 5:27:50 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

General Motors has temporarily laid off most of the approximately 2,000 unionized workers at its Fairfax assembly plant in Kansas as a result of the ongoing UAW strikes.

The move, which GM had warned was coming last week, is the largest ripple effect so far from the United Auto Workers' historic strike against all three Detroit automakers as the union demands a new contract that offers substantially better wages and benefits.

But automakers have warned a strike threatens to make them uncompetitive against rivals, especially as the companies spend billions of dollars to transition to electric vehicles.

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KEYWORDS: kansas; layoff; strike; uaw; workers
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To: roving

Your daughter is a him?


21 posted on 09/20/2023 9:50:25 PM PDT by cableguymn
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Good luck.. hope you can find another good used 2021


22 posted on 09/20/2023 10:17:40 PM PDT by inchworm (al )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

O no. Union grandmas Christmas parade is about to start. She’s gonna have to compete with monthly government grandma this Christmas.
They better get this sorted out before the republicans war on grandmas Christmas kills us all.


23 posted on 09/21/2023 1:35:20 AM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with. )
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To: BatGuano; All

I worked at a major defense contractor for over 35 years.

We had at least 3 unions. Security & Fire, Clerical and Mfg.

The latter two unions mentioned went on strike several times while I worked there. I was salaried management level and I recall packing a few days of clothes/toiletries/etc. in a bag to be locked in at the plant and work in the mfg. area.

The strikers had to walk picket lines and were paid from their union’s strike fund. They got $25 a week!

The income they lost for a short strike was never made up by the small wage increases they agreed to accept.

Greedy union bosses constantly screw over their members.


24 posted on 09/21/2023 2:22:30 AM PDT by octex
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To: Spktyr

I know this is private but I named Reagan because that is the best way to beat these unions but nobody wants to take charge anymore.


25 posted on 09/21/2023 4:18:45 AM PDT by Dandy (Drain the swamp baby!!!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
What difference does it make. The US no longer has a viable auto industry anyway.

With the possible exception of Tesla.

26 posted on 09/21/2023 4:25:08 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Indeed it’s more about greed pay up to $130.00 (some areas)an hour and a 4 day work week.

Biden if for it it gives the chance to hire illegals for a 3 day work at 3 shifts a week and welfare.

Every illegal in the country drives up healthcare costs for everyone.


27 posted on 09/21/2023 8:47:45 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: digger48

“downstream workers hit hardest.”

Yes and that is part of the calculation of the striker’s leaders.
Their goal is to get a contract and they don’t care about other workers. They want the company and the public to care.

Living in times where leadership in Washington is careless about inflation and debt gives unions an excuse to be reckless.


28 posted on 09/21/2023 11:50:49 AM PDT by BatGuano (2020 = Stolen Election. Believe it! Molon Labe.)
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To: Dandy

GM willingly and happily signed on to the UAW Master Agreement over and over and continues to be based in a forced unionism state. GM deserves everything they get and it isn’t anyone else’s problem to solve.


29 posted on 09/21/2023 3:00:46 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The companies will hire aliens, the UAW will drop the members who have been layed off before supporting them, sign up the aliens, and pocket the difference. This is what UNITE Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE!) did to NY workers in 1990.


30 posted on 09/21/2023 3:11:13 PM PDT by wbarmy (Trying to do better.)
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