It is a fact AFL-CIO union protects autoworkers from being terminated. My father worked for Ford in Dearborn. He shared with me many things:
Examples:
-a co-worker chose his Rehab in Hawaii to save his vaction time.
-prior to election AFL-CIO called each employee to ask which party/candidate they were going to vote for. Jr-Hi students had mock elections in Social Studies to determine party vote choice. (This is personal knowledge as I was kicked in hall for indication Republican party)
My father and I were walking to the local store to buy milk.. we didn’t own a car. When I told my dad. He told shared the prior story of being quizzed by union representatives.
My father was a strong committed tithing Christian that weekly went with holes in his church shoes or re-soled by the local cobbler. I knew he wouldn’t purposefully lie. I asked him what did he do? How did he handle it?
He payed for a second. Then, he said I have a wife and family to support. I tell them what they wanted to hear as God understood my answer was under duress.
1- Jimmy Hoffa: Deathbed confession sparks long-missing US union boss body hunt
19 November 2021
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59346106
2- The labor movement and its members have long suffered from extortion, thievery, and fraud. Corrupt labor officials have used union power to extort money from businesses. Labor racketeering has been a major source of the Cosa Nostra crime families’ power and wealth since the 1930s. Nonetheless, combating labor racketeering did not become a federal law enforcement priority until Jimmy Hoffa’s assassination in 1975. The U. S. Department of Justice, beginning in the early 1980s, brought or threatened civil racketeering lawsuits against numerous mobbed-up locals and four international unions. These lawsuits led to an unprecedented effort by court-appointed monitors and trustees to purge the corrupted unions of racketeers and racketeering and to reform the unions.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1147700
3. Jimmy Hoffa disappeared 48 years ago Sunday – timeline shows the investigation
Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township
https://www.wxyz.com/news/jimmy-hoffa-disappeared-40-years-ago-thursday-timeline-shows-the-investigation
Auto Bailout? More Like a $23 Billion Gift to the UAW
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/obama-auto-bailout-was-a-union-bailout/
[Obama take over of U.S. auto industry Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry: [Obama fired GM President]
The Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry was an ad hoc group of United States cabinet-level and other officials that was formed by President Barack Obama to deal with the financial bailout of automakers Chrysler and General Motors.
Based on an assessment that automobile manufacturing was a critical sector of the economy providing 3 to 4 million jobs for Americans, that liquidation was imminent for two of the three major U.S. automakers, and that the break ups would devastate the U.S. economy, the U.S. government became involved in the DAY-TO-DAY management decisions of Chrysler and General Motors through the Task Force. The Presidential Task Force formed and started holding meetings in February 2009. It reviewed financial and operational restructuring plans submitted by Chrysler and General Motors and made its own specific recommendations at cabinet level meetings to the President regarding the restructurings and the requests for funds from the companies.
Also:
Effects of the 2008–2010 automotive industry crisis on the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_2008%E2%80%932010_automotive_industry_crisis_on_the_United_States
You asked: "So you’re really no fan of American workers, eh? How much should their wages be cut to satisfy you?"
I am going to plagiarize UMCRevMom in answering you...
IMHO, she has encapsulated the best short response to your question...
"It is a fact AFL-CIO union protects autoworkers from being terminated. My father worked for Ford in Dearborn. He shared with me many things:
Examples:
-a co-worker chose his Rehab in Hawaii to save his vaction time.
-prior to election AFL-CIO called each employee to ask which party/candidate they were going to vote for. Jr-Hi students had mock elections in Social Studies to determine party vote choice. (This is personal knowledge as I was kicked in hall for indication Republican party)
My father and I were walking to the local store to buy milk.. we didn’t own a car. When I told my dad. He told shared the prior story of being quizzed by union representatives.
My father was a strong committed tithing Christian that weekly went with holes in his church shoes or re-soled by the local cobbler. I knew he wouldn’t purposefully lie. I asked him what did he do? How did he handle it? He payed for a second. Then, he said I have a wife and family to support. I tell them what they wanted to hear as God understood my answer was under duress.
1- Jimmy Hoffa: Deathbed confession sparks long-missing US union boss body hunt 19 November 2021 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59346106
2- The labor movement and its members have long suffered from extortion, thievery, and fraud. Corrupt labor officials have used union power to extort money from businesses. Labor racketeering has been a major source of the Cosa Nostra crime families’ power and wealth since the 1930s. Nonetheless, combating labor racketeering did not become a federal law enforcement priority until Jimmy Hoffa’s assassination in 1975. The U. S. Department of Justice, beginning in the early 1980s, brought or threatened civil racketeering lawsuits against numerous mobbed-up locals and four international unions. These lawsuits led to an unprecedented effort by court-appointed monitors and trustees to purge the corrupted unions of racketeers and racketeering and to reform the unions. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1147700