The union has secured that workers at General Motors’ joint-venture battery plants will be covered under the Big Three master agreement. It’s a major step in a just transition.
This is a pretty big one, and it chips away a big stupid argument that Trump and the right wing has been making. That being, “the left wants to invest in EVs and, EV manufacturing isn’t as good for American workers.”
Which is technically true, but it’s true because there are less unions in EV manufacturing, and that makes the jobs shittier. And America’s right is the corporate mouthpiece for killing unions.
This is a pretty big one, and it chips away a big stupid argument that Trump and the right wing has been making. That being, “the left wants to invest in EVs and, EV manufacturing isn’t as good for American workers.”
It’s not just Trump and the right wing. There was an interview that Shawn Fain had with PBS where the interviewer kept trying to paint unions as anti-EV.
There are also fewer parts to EVs, which means fewer parts to manufacture. Of course, the implication of that being an argument against EVs is that we should keep driving Rube Goldberg machines with more points of failure because that’s someone’s job - but nobody would bat an eye at having a robot do that job if it’s possible to.
This is a pretty big one, and it chips away a big stupid argument that Trump and the right wing has been making. That being, “the left wants to invest in EVs and, EV manufacturing isn’t as good for American workers.”
Which is technically true, but it’s true because there are less unions in EV manufacturing, and that makes the jobs shittier. And America’s right is the corporate mouthpiece for killing unions.
It’s not just Trump and the right wing. There was an interview that Shawn Fain had with PBS where the interviewer kept trying to paint unions as anti-EV.
This? https://www.pbs.org/video/countering-china-1695752854/
Seems like pretty reasonable questioning. She asked for his response to what Trump was blabbing about.
There are also fewer parts to EVs, which means fewer parts to manufacture. Of course, the implication of that being an argument against EVs is that we should keep driving Rube Goldberg machines with more points of failure because that’s someone’s job - but nobody would bat an eye at having a robot do that job if it’s possible to.