Posted on 09/15/2023 6:16:55 AM PDT by Salman
Members of the United Auto Workers began a strike Friday at three plants in the Midwest, walking out amid a contract dispute over pay, pensions and work hours at the three Detroit automakers.
The strike of each of the three Detroit automakers is not a full-scale walkout by the union’s roughly 150,000 members, but a “limited and targeted” work stoppage that could expand if talks remain bogged down.
The workers’ four-year contracts with General Motors, Ford Motor and Stellantis — which owns Chrysler, Jeep and Ram — expired at midnight Thursday, with the two sides far apart. The union, which is negotiating separate deals with each automaker, has never before staged a strike against all three companies at once.
An extended strike could complicate the Federal Reserve’s efforts to fight inflation by crimping the availability of new cars and driving up prices. A long and broad strike would ripple through the automakers’ supply chain and hurt other businesses while workers live off $500 a week in strike pay from the union.
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Wages are NOT causing inflation. Wages declined 3.5% Y o Y.
And what about the line workers?
BootyJudge and Biden will bail$ them out.
“Hasn’t seemed to have made a difference for the writers in Hollyweird. So...I’m thinking, no. ”
Hollywood writers don’t produce things that people need.
Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Hyundai, Subaru, Kia, VW, Mercedes-Benz, BMV and Volvo all build vehicles in the USA.
The “Big Three” can ALL go under and Americans will still have plenty of jobs building motor vehicles and a lot of choices of vehicles to buy.
They should strike until the car makers abandon the EV garbage.
Normally I would assume this is all staged stuff and the outcome has been predetermined. But this time I am not so sure. EVs are a fundamental threat to the UAW as others have noted on this thread. The EV does not require nearly as much skilled labor to assemble as an ICE vehicle.
Similarly, I think the Big Three might view this strike as a chance to break the back of the UAW. The union has had a very tough time getting any wins in the southern plants or with any of the foreign manufacturers. Inventory is starting to pile up, especially with EVs, and they might be willing to take a prolonged strike to try and really remake the UAW-Big Three relationship. Government mandates have thrown a wrench into things here as they always do.
If they are striking at Electric Vehicle plants, they are doing the automakers a favor
😂😂😂😂
It can be argued that neither do the UAW workers. For a while anyway.
Only a union member can stand, wave signs and cheer at the fact that they no longer have a paycheck.
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