Ford lays off 600 workers at plant targeted by UAW strike::Ford is laying off workers while the UAW is striking against Ford, GM, and Stellantis. This is getting complicated.
Not defending Ford here. But we need to be supporting union workers by choosing union made products and services. Those that are saying they won’t buy a Ford now, that’s your choice, but I hope you’re doing your research and at least considering other automobiles that are union instead. Here is a 2023 list of all the UAW built vehicles: https://uaw.org/solidarity_magazine/2023-uaw-union-built-vehicle-guide/amp/
Yeah I wanted a Chevy bolt because that’s the union made electric compact. I won’t buy a struck vehicle but I’ll never buy a non union new vehicle if I can help it. Purchasing non union products is the same as purchasing products from companies retaliating against a union, the only difference is the retaliators haven’t won yet.
Is it bad that I would rather buy a vehicle from the 90’s because it doesn’t have all this bs in it that 1. makes it harder to repair myself and 2. Just feels weird to drive (mainly talking the fly by wire style that modern cars are using, I want to feel the feedback on my gas pedal).
No, it’s definitely not bad to think that.
(Source: I own four cars made in the '90s, for much the same reason.)
No, I like old cars too for the same reasons
Oh, wow! That’ll show those rascally workers! I’m sure the strikes will conclude uneventfully now!
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If they can prove the layoffs are retaliation, can’t the workers sure them? Or does that only apply to the initial action of unionisation?
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There are actually protections for striking according to the NLRB “depending on the purposes and means of the strike action.”
I believe if it’s an unsanctioned wildcat strike they can fire without it being retaliation, but if it’s a strike backed by the NLRB they have to prove it isn’t retaliation and I don’t think the days gone by an official strike counts here. I could be wrong but that is what I remember about wildcat strike differences
It depends on the kind of strike. Workers that strike over a company’s unfair labor practice are protected from permanent replacements. This is not that tho. While they are far apart, I don’t think they can accuse the companies of refusing to negotiate.
Of course if the union wins the strike then no replacement.
And this is one of the reasons they’re striking in the first place.
Poking the UAW with a stick may not work the way Ford thinks it will.
Making cars in the US makes no sense. The cost of living is too high. It’s much easier to make them in Mexico and ship them.
If they want their new EVs to be eligible federal tax credit, the cars need to undergo final assembly in the US. Not to mention we just went through a pandemic that showed us the weaknesses of shipping all our manufacturing to third world countries.
your weakness, not mine
Where do you live? The moon?
Not in the US
Then you have no idea why things NEED to be made here too. Everywhere needs jobs regardless of the country. People need money to spend on things, old things need replaced with new ones sometimes, and the economy fails with no jobs at all. Your comments are short sighted and fail to recognize to unique circumstances of the USA and its needs as you are not a citizen, you don’t know how it actually is here or why Union jobs are important to the working class.
You read too many sensational ‘America Bad’ articles and it shows.
Hey, maybe it’ll make you invade less countries and murder fewer people.
That makes sense for a techbro or a financebro, but turning the blue collar labour force into a horde of minimum wage slaves serving coffee and delivering UPS packages isn’t exactly the future that those people want.
I doubt their wants will have a say in this matter.
Let them eat cake
I’d rather eat billionaires
Are you immune to being stabbed by pitchforks?
