Posted on 02/19/2024 4:43:56 PM PST by Red Badger
Michigan autoworkers are worried that President Joe Biden’s policies pushing for a transition to electric vehicles (EV) will cost their jobs, according to The New York Times.
Some autoworkers represented by the United Auto Workers (UAW) union are not pleased with the president’s support of EVs due to the products needing less manpower to produce, which could eliminate tens of thousands of jobs not just in manufacturing, but also in supporting services like insurance and trucking, according to the NYT. Biden has made union support a key part of his campaign and presidential policy, but his push to have half of all new car sales in the U.S. be electric by 2030 runs contrary to the desires of the highly unionized auto industry.
“I was disappointed,” Tiffanie Simmons, an autoworker at a Ford factory west of Detroit, Michigan, told the NYT about Biden’s push for EVs. “We trust you to make sure that Americans are employed.”
Biden has recently looked to slow his EV push in a bid to hold on to autoworker support, with plans in the works to ease restrictions on tailpipe emissions that were set to go into effect over the next few years that would have hastened the need for zero-emission vehicles.
Simmons sees EVs as antithetical to the interests of blue-collar workers because of their job-destroying potential, according to the NYT. She feels betrayed by Biden, but will not vote for former President Donald Trump, deeming him an “entertainer.”
“It’s scary right now with the whole electric push,” Nelson Westrick, an autoworker at the Ford plant north of Detroit in Sterling Heights, Michigan, told the NYT. “This electric stuff is going to kill, just kill, thousands and thousands of jobs.”
Trump held a rally in September 2023 in Detroit, Michigan, speaking to plumbers, electricians and autoworkers instead of attending the second GOP presidential debate as part of his push to win over union votes in his 2024 presidential bid. The former president also released a campaign video in July asking for an endorsement from the UAW, attacking Biden’s support for “green new deal” policies like the EV transition.
In January, Trump met with both leaders and rank-and-file members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters to speak about “serious issues.” Trump flipped both Michigan and Wisconsin in the 2016 election while coming very close to winning Minnesota.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request to comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
just look at replacement costs on Tesla batteries! high at $28k BEFORE LABOR COSTS.
Could kill? WILL KILL….
Take the damn shop stewards out for drinks…on your boat, airplane or helicopter.
Look for the union label.
Taping all those AAA batteries together takes a long time so labor and tape will cost a lot ,LOL
They could always learn to mine coal…er, code…er, mine Bitcoin, er…wind motor armatures. So many opportunities!
Keep voting Democrat!!
It’s working!!
For anyone BUT Americans!!
Keep voting for it, ya morons.
Maybe if they vote for him, things will get better.
(union thinking)
If that is what he accomplishes, its OK by me ... so long as the destruction is confined to dc
Don’t worry their UNION BOSSES will gladly spend all the dues money to help Biden Win and likely RAID the Pension Funds too. Then when you are unemployed with no pension, you can think about the people you chose to be your leaders.
Better than paying for a UAW built vehicle.
These auto workers have had nearly 100 years to get the thugs and communist out of their union.
The only American made car I would consider is Tesla.
We drive made in Japan Mazdas
We sure do live in interesting times
The continued escalation....
Your union rep could give a crap. As long as the job killer wears a D after his name.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHnJp0oyOxs
And the union people crawled awaaaaaaayyy!...............
And when the Chinese flood the market with disposable lifespan EVs made in Mexico they will really complain. Their evil union supports the democrats so my sympathy meter is pegged.
Splash!
Too late…..UAW already endorsed their Candy Man, Joe Biden…….
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