Over 144,000 workers are set to strike on September 14 if negotiations with their employers, the car manufacturers General Motors, Stellantis, and Ford, fail. The union has already employed the tactic of practice pickets at auto plants in Detroit, Michigan and Louisville, Kentucky
This is from a socialist site that is very pro-union and point to the companies shutting down factories to keep up with Japan and Germany. They frame this as an attack on the working class and say the companies should have forgone profit, but if Japan and Germany are making a profit and the US isn’t, that’s only going to last so long.
This talks about the UAW bending over Packard so hard they had to merge with another company to stay alive, but even that wasn’t enough, so the plant shut down and the company is no more.
Not just Detroit, but the whole area was hurt by the jobs being moved and the plants getting shut down. Detroit had a lot of other issues with corruption and politics, I was up front about that… the UAW has had its share of corruption issues as well; that’ll happen when an organization gets powerful enough.
Why not read some actual research into the issue instead of googling for websites that confirm your point of view? I found those same articles too, and they’re crap.
Let me ask you something, did you even consider the source of those two websites you linked?
Why don’t you link me to this research you found that are so great, instead of just saying, trust me bro my sources are legit?
I thought the article from the socialist site was shit, but figured with this crowd it would show some balance instead of someone coming back and saying something was propaganda from the capitalists.
This is from a socialist site that is very pro-union and point to the companies shutting down factories to keep up with Japan and Germany. They frame this as an attack on the working class and say the companies should have forgone profit, but if Japan and Germany are making a profit and the US isn’t, that’s only going to last so long.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/03/whit-m25.html
This talks about the UAW bending over Packard so hard they had to merge with another company to stay alive, but even that wasn’t enough, so the plant shut down and the company is no more.
https://cei.org/blog/empire-of-rust-how-the-uaw-killed-detroit/
Not just Detroit, but the whole area was hurt by the jobs being moved and the plants getting shut down. Detroit had a lot of other issues with corruption and politics, I was up front about that… the UAW has had its share of corruption issues as well; that’ll happen when an organization gets powerful enough.
Why not read some actual research into the issue instead of googling for websites that confirm your point of view? I found those same articles too, and they’re crap.
Let me ask you something, did you even consider the source of those two websites you linked?
Why don’t you link me to this research you found that are so great, instead of just saying, trust me bro my sources are legit?
I thought the article from the socialist site was shit, but figured with this crowd it would show some balance instead of someone coming back and saying something was propaganda from the capitalists.