MicroWaveSep 22, 2023

Electric vehicle jobs are booming in the anti-union South. UAW is worried

https://lemmy.world/post/5518458

Electric vehicle jobs are booming in the anti-union South. UAW is worried - Lemmy.world

anymore." New York CNN — Looming over the United Auto Workers strike: Automakers’ continued migration to the anti-union South. Beginning in the 1970s and 1980s, the auto industry began shifting South, a region long characterized by hostility to labor unions and by low wages. Since then, assembly lines of higher-paid UAW workers at Detroit’s Big Three – Ford, General Motors and Stellantis – have shrunk. And automakers such as Volvo, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Toyota and Hyundai have steadily hired nonunion autoworkers, who make less money for substantially the same work, in the South.

Show threadFlying Squid
The Big Three still depend on the UAW for work. Unlike some people claim, they don’t have the capacity, the time or the workforce to move production somewhere else. I doubt the UAW is all that worried.
Sep 22, 2023 at 11:08amWeb
Show threadMagicShelSep 22, 2023
Yeah, we’re about to be flooded with stories about how bad the UAW/ strike is for workers, business, the economy, and your Aunt Ethel. It’s all bullshit.
Show threadFlying SquidSep 22, 2023
The really sad part is that they don’t even have to astroturf. They have an army of useful idiots who will post all kinds of anti-labor propaganda and not even realize it’s all a lie.
Show threadsnooggumsSep 22, 2023
Those people exist because of the decades of anti union propagand.
Show threadspacecowboySep 22, 2023
And wilful ignorance.
Show threadbluGillSep 22, 2023
And unions doing foolish things that make them a bad option.
Show threadsnooggumsSep 22, 2023
Thanks, but we did not need an example of someone who has fallen for the anti-union propaganda.
Show threadbluGillSep 22, 2023
Why not? We have a number of examples here of someone who has fallen for pro-union propaganda.
Show threadnorbertSep 22, 2023
Yeah workers organizing for mutual benefit and negotiation is totally dumb.
Show threadbluGillSep 22, 2023
You are putting words in my mouth that I never said. Unions as an idea are not bad. However their implementation over the years has done a number of things that are bad.
Show threadnorbertSep 22, 2023

And unions doing foolish things that make them a bad option.

Show threadbluGillSep 22, 2023

@norbert

Just because the unions do it does not mean it is for the mutual benefit of union members. They often have policies that are for the benefit of the worker who has been there for a long time against the younger workers. They often have policies that are against someone who wants to leave the union for a management role at some time.

Show threadtallwookieSep 22, 2023
not immediately, no - but over the next decade? yeah, UAW’s days are numbered.
Show threadFlying SquidSep 22, 2023
…or those factories see what being unionized gets them and vote to unionize.
Show threadSteevSep 23, 2023
They should be worried because the big three haven’t adapted quickly enough.