The U.A.W. Strike Threat Poses a Tricky
Political Challenge for Biden
The New Yorker,
by
John Cassidy
Original Article
Posted By: FlyRight,
9/12/2023 6:42:06 AM
With just three days until their current contract expires, nearly a hundred and fifty thousand members of the United Auto Workers (U.A.W.) union are preparing to walk out from their jobs at the Big Three automakers: Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis (the parent company of Chrysler). Negotiations are ongoing, but in recent days Shawn Fain, the U.A.W. president, dismissed the companies’ initial contract offers as grossly inadequate. “If we don’t get our justice, I can guarantee you one thing—come this Thursday at midnight, there will be action,” Fain said.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
skacmar 9/12/2023 6:56:30 AM (No. 1554358)
Go ahead, strike. There will be no union jobs once all of their jobs are shipped to more business friendly countries. The UAW will be solely responsible for killing an entire industry in their quest for "justice". Their short sighted grid will trickle down to suppliers and put them out of business as well doing further damage to the US economy.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mifla 9/12/2023 7:19:59 AM (No. 1554376)
Go ahead, no one wants the EVs you will be forced to build at exorbitant prices.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Venturer 9/12/2023 7:57:39 AM (No. 1554405)
With cars sitting around unsold and EV's and the crazy car market today, a strike at this time has to be one of the dumbest decisions the UAW ever made.
17 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
PChristopher 9/12/2023 9:01:48 AM (No. 1554444)
I can pretty much guarantee you that you will not get any meaningful action out of Biden or mayor Pete in this matter
8 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 9/12/2023 9:14:59 AM (No. 1554454)
The US auto industry is a retirement plan that just happens to make cars as a sideline.
10 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
cor-vet 9/12/2023 9:18:55 AM (No. 1554458)
They spelled 'just us' wrong!
2 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 9/12/2023 9:24:52 AM (No. 1554467)
Bad time to strike with millions of Biden illegals dying to make half the union wage.
6 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
stablemoney 9/12/2023 10:26:36 AM (No. 1554517)
What? Is the UAW threatening to stop building EV's that nobody is buying, and are piling up unsold on dealer lots?
9 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Kate318 9/12/2023 10:41:56 AM (No. 1554528)
Seems like yesterday when Tom Hanks was waxing eloquently about Obama fixing the auto industry crisis.
3 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 9/12/2023 10:57:46 AM (No. 1554542)
I lived in southeast Michigan from 1979 until 1987, and bumped up against the auto industry and the UAW all the time. The UAW has always been The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight. Their leaders have always been crooked, and their members have always voted for Democrats. At this point in history the entire U.S. auto industry ought to be telling the government “butt out - we’re not building toy cars with batteries” but they won’t. The UAW, facing the layoff of 40% of its members, has decided to go on strike because they want whoever is left working should make twice the money for half the work.
The UAW has been doing its damnedest, since 1937, to destroy the Big Three. This time, they just might get it done.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
baxter1 9/12/2023 11:04:28 AM (No. 1554551)
Got an email from my credit union a week or so ago advertising 6.34 interest rates for new cars. Who the heck is going to go with that insane rate?
5 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
MickTurn 9/12/2023 11:48:01 AM (No. 1554578)
Joey will buy them off WITH OUR MONEY, as usual!
3 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
cThree 9/12/2023 11:27:57 PM (No. 1554946)
The New Yorker?! They're still out there? bless their little hearts. I actually used to subscribe back in the day, when William Shawn was the editor, but even then the articles were tedious and over-long, invariably liberal and always inconclusive. Prince of Denmark essays for the constipated leisure class.
But I read this one, thanks FlyRight.
They haven/'t changed, although this piece is about one tenth the length of the old ones.
The writer and the point of view are totally left of center: Trump-hating, hallucinatory, illogical and dogmatic.
For example, FTA, Trump is just playing destructive politics, of course. Of course. From a climate-change perspective, making the transition to E.V.s is imperative. Or else what? Or else the Arctic might be ice-free in the summers by, say, 2014?
And in the end the writer goes no further than the headline. Gee, this poses a tricky problem for Biden.
The writer John Cassidy doesn't attempt to answer the salient question, Why are unions losing out in the tech changeover? But that wouldn't be the New Yorker way. They just wring their hands and sigh.
Is that about right, Jack? You don't mind if I call you Jack, right?
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