Gotta increase your schmuck count so you can skim more off the top.
Get your money!
The UAW is a monopoly. It should be broken up.
a large union having representing significant labor share is the source of any collective bargaining power. The industry as a whole must work to negotiate with labor which is largely transferable between firms.
I guess they’re all moving to Mexico 🇲🇽
It’s hilarious how anti-unionists have convinced you this is true. It’s cheaper to let people unionise and get higher pay rises than to shutter an entire factory, and build another entire factory somewhere else. Any existing Mexican factories won’t have the capacity to build many more cars.
It’s my understanding that the Mexico plants are already unionized. Just not by UAW
This right here. Mexico is actually a very pro-labor country.
Time to tax foreign made shit more
Didn’t Toyota and Honda just announce pay raises?
Yep, they sure did https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/14/cars/uaw-labor-toyota-honda-hyundai/index.html
Giving companies even more reasons to invest more into automation tech.
I work in automation. Nearly ALL of our customers want full automated systems. Only problem is that it’s a lot of $$$. A lot of time we end up doing semi-automated solutions that keeps maybe half of the workforce.
I’m not familiar with automation systems in the manufacturing space, but I do run small fintech firm where we work on automated trading. Full automation is a pipedream (for now, at least). We find that supervised systems where the machine does much of the heavy lifting, with a human hand on the wheel, are the ones that work best. This can still save companies a ton on labor costs.
Sounds like the other half of your customer’s workforce should apply to the growing automation industry. Equilibrium maintained!
There going to need alot more electro mechanical technicians to keep everything running smoothly then.
“The union said the simultaneous push covers BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Lucid, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Rivian, Subaru, Tesla, Toyota, Volkswagen and Volvo. Forming unions at all of those companies would add 150,000 members to the UAW, according to the union. That would roughly double its size.”
it’s gonna be an interesting next few years
I might be blind but nowhere in the article does it say where workers actually wants to do it so far, more so the fact that UAW wants to convince them.
Maybe there is hope that the future will see better working conditions for everyone.
No factory workers are going to support it loudly. They don’t want to get fired
It won’t matter, they’ll just keep outsourcing labor and remove the option entirely.
This is not news as the UAW would not be doing its job if it wasn’t pushing for more recruits after their recent contract negotiations.
And NBC would not be doing their job if they weren’t promoting the push.
It’s shaking up the landscape for sure. All those OEMs have increased pay and many have exceeded the increases of UAW.
Companies will close down and go where no unions exist. UAW may have won but you’ll be paying for it.
I didn’t know there were no manufacturing plants of any kind in Europe.
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted, it’s correct.
Because it’s not correct. Europe builds cars with strong unions. We have tons of workers in unions here today. Etc…
And to see folks here side with CEOs over workers is embarrassing.
Corporate propaganda is strong, unfortunately. It’s got some middle class people so brainwashed they go against their own interests and those of their peers
We knew this might happen, that’s why you saw Toyota increase wages in the hopes of pacifying its workers
UAW is probably exaggerating 1000s. They couldn’t even get the maintenance guys at Toyota Canada to unionize.
If you knew anything about Canada, you’d know their union is Unifor, not the UAW
Great!!!
They weren’t already unionized?
Nope, foreign automakers deliberately set up shop in right to work states so they can avoid the UAW
Goodbye American made products. Hello cheaper labor Mexico 🙄.
They were already doing this
Finally. UAWs big problem was corrupt idiot leadership torpedoing union efforts at the other plants. Sean Fein got shit done, got real results and most of all got a ton of media attention. These last rounds of strikes were as much about getting results for members as they were about showcasing what unions are and for to the rest of the Automotive industry.
Well done
Can’t understate how important of a step this is. if all auto workers unionize, and other industries see this, and see their wages go up, it could mean the resurgence of the middle class across North America. Stand strong auto-buddies.
Hell will freeze over before the fine folks of Kentucky unionize. They’ve tried multiple times here at the Toyota plant and its always shot down.