The United Auto Workers are on strike. They want a lot of things, including a 40% raise. You’d be right to wonder why no one is talking about their need for a 40% increase in pay and right to guess Democrats and Joe Biden’s economy, which has also tripped up the Left’s Electric Vehicle agenda in the process.
While discussing the pay raises demanded by the UAW in negotiations and pay raises for CEOs, [Ford President and CEO Jim ]Farley said that they have offered pay raises and are open to big pay increases, but the 40% that the UAW is asking for is too much and would put the company out of business, and “There’s a fine line here that we won’t go past, which is, we want everyone to participate in our success. But if it prevents us from investing in this transition to EVs and in future products like the ones we have now like a new F-150, the best-selling vehicle in the U.S., then everyone’s job’s at risk if we don’t invest.
I’d be inclined to think Ford was just busting the Union’s chops because I have been in a union (Teamsters) and On Strike (UPS). I have some sense of the dynamics and politics on both sides, but then .. not. The UAW is aware of the green jobs problem, as we reported two m months ago.
UAW President Shawn Fain, as well as the union’s members in Lordstown, Ohio, are sounding the alarm on severe cuts to auto workers’ wages as a result of the Biden administration’s push to steer automakers towards EVs, enticing them with federal subsidies.
Money that is going, according to Fain, to well-connected and well-heeled investors and executives. Welcome to Democrat-Socialism, Shawn, and the end game of all communist revolutions. Tell the people you have their back and then stand on it to perpetuate your wealth and power.
You are a union boss. Didn’t you read your Sergey Nechayev?
“The only form of revolution beneficial to the people is one which destroys the entire State to the roots and exterminates all the state traditions, institutions, and classes… Our task is terrible, total, universal, and merciless destruction.”
Sergey Nechayev’s Revolutionary Catechism inspired Marxists from Vladimir Lenin to Saul Alinsky to our manifold of Modern Leftists. It is the objective of Cloward-Piven. It is the goal of rampant inflation and the rising cost of water, electricity, and energy. The open border. Medicine and Public Health Policy since Wuhan. To break every institution, including the government, by wrecking them from within or making them unreliable to those who rely on them.
The sh!tty economy directly results from Democrat policy, and that’s not changing. They are actively destroying every institution, including yours. And not to put too fine a point on it, but Ford CEO Jim Farley is closer to being an approved Oligarch of the New America than you. He needs workers to build cars, and at this point, they will be union workers. And Ford appears to be all-in on the EV transition despite losing billions annually becasue the Pfeds are prepared to print money to keep Ford propped up, which – as you have already guessed will not be to protect union jobs.
The United Auto Workers (UAW) is going after President Joe Biden’s so-called “green energy” agenda for its wage-cutting outcomes while showering billions in American taxpayer money on the three largest automakers in the nation: Ford, General Motors (GM), and Stellantis.
To which I added,
And auto workers should be concerned, though not just about how the EV market might be impacting wages and jobs. Ever since The Green New Deal landed inside the DC Beltway, the Dems have not been shy about their plans. Privately owned automobiles are an outdated concept whose shelf life has reached its end. The UAW’s workers are clinging to obsolete skills (learn to code, right?).
And EVs are not the future of individual transportation. They are the means by which personal transportation will be limited to the wealthy and connected, and you won’t have auto plants all over the nation to meet that need. You will have a few, run by the approved oligarch, using increased automation.
And EVs are never going to get any cheaper. The US has to buy them (mostly) from China, which controls the mines and much of the components and assembly of bits used in Lithium packs. And we know there aren’t enough resources to build the electric future or replace its parts when they fail. Why do you think China is building coal plants to make “green” baubles for the West? They can throttle production at will, not that they will need that. At this pace, by 2035 or 2050, nothing will work, and they can walk in and take whatever they want.
And while all of that is a burden not yet borne, if you keep voting for Democrats, you will guarantee the end of your union and America.
