tmw you get fucking played by the UAW
The comments on that article are getting pretty heated.
That’s a paywall.
Not for me, allow me to show you how fuckin ignorant the utter buffoon that wrote it is -
But, if they, in fact, get a 25% increase in wages, don’t they realize that the 25% sooner or later gets tacked onto the price of the vehicles they say they can’t afford? A $50,000 vehicle today will likely be a $62,000 vehicle next year.
😂 Oh my god, the results of a devastated education system
Well
They’re not entirely wrong
The market will increase prices to what the market will bear
But that’s primarily a capitalism thing
Not a “makes any sense” thing
But the definition of “what the market will bear” is pretty fuckin slim these days
(Tax the rich)
Unregulated capitalism is purely logical and the most ultimately efficient system 🤓
Sorry about that, tried testing with a few methods before posting and was able to get through.
While it may appear that the UAW has negotiated very rich contracts at Stellantis, Ford and GM, don’t be fooled.
United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain has unfortunately created a witch’s brew and his 140,000 autoworkers have been drinking it. They actually think they have accomplished something, when all they have really done is put the Detroit Three on the fast track to extinction.
If you listen to the interviews every night on the news all you hear from picketers is that with the new contract, they will soon be able to afford the vehicles they are making that they can’t afford now. But, if they, in fact, get a 25% increase in wages, don’t they realize that the 25% sooner or later gets tacked onto the price of the vehicles they say they can’t afford? A $50,000 vehicle today will likely be a $62,000 vehicle next year.
Moreover, Kia, Hyundai, Toyota, Honda and all other foreign transplants will be laughing all the way to the bank. The unending push for EVs will eliminate over half of the UAW jobs in America, the other half will soon be eliminated because nobody will be buying the now unaffordable cars made by the Detroit Three.
This is a real American tragedy. The greed that Fain keeps attributing to the executive offices of the automakers really needs to be pointed at himself. In his rush to make himself famous and to convince his dying union that he alone knows how to fix everything, he has put the Detroit Three and the UAW on the fast track to the trash bin of history. A very sad end to the labor movement.
Thank you, Mr. Fain.
Frank T. Mamat
Troy
Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP
You know you’re winning as a union when they threaten you.
Also, we need to unionize the other automakers
Need to unionize more white collar jobs too. Less than 5% of the engineers I’ve worked with would have actually been interested in starting a union.
Full agreement and as a rabidly pro union engineer I really wish more of us would. Like I’d share a union with my line workers
