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The GM strikes devastated many of the local suppliers, which were forced to layoff employees. Some people never got their jobs back and these businesses still

The GM strikes devastated many of the local suppliers, which were forced to layoff employees. Some people never got their jobs back and these businesses still haven't recovered. One of the main complaints is that they don't want GM to sell more electric cars. The reason is that it requires a different set of skills (more engineering/software and less blue-collar mechanic work). Instead of the unions educating their members and helping them transition to a new position, they instead strike and use mob tactics to prevent advancements in technology.

brylie 7y ago
It seems like the strike is primarily about keeping jobs and healthcare while raising wages: """ Union demands for job security, higher base wages and retaining arguably the best health care coverage in the private sector are certain to clash with GM's plan to negotiate the shutdown of four U.S. plants and its push to close the cost gap with non-union foreign automakers operating mostly in the American South. """ https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/business/columnists/daniel-howes/2019/09/10/uaw-demands-profits-gm-cost-cuts-portend-potential-strike/2267255001/ https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/business/columnists/daniel-... """ STEVE GORALSKI: We’ve got a company that had $35 billion in profits in the last few years. We’ve got temporaries that have been here over seven years and are still temporaries, and they’re asking for more temporaries. They’re moving our plants out of country; they’re taking them to Mexico and to China. And now they’re asking for concessions on our healthcare. I don’t know about you, but that’s the only reason I took this job. I used to have my own drywall company. I took it for the benefits. """ https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/18/uaw_nationwide_strikes_gm https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/18/uaw_nationwide_strike...

brylie 7y ago

It seems like the strike is primarily about keeping jobs and healthcare while raising wages: """ Union demands for job security, higher base wages and retaining arguably the best health care coverage in the private sector are certain to clash with GM's plan to negotiate the shutdown of four U.S. plants and its push to close the cost gap with non-union foreign automakers operating mostly in the American South. """ https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/business/columnists/daniel-howes/2019/09/10/uaw-demands-profits-gm-cost-cuts-portend-potential-strike/2267255001/ https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/business/columnists/daniel-... """ STEVE GORALSKI: We’ve got a company that had $35 billion in profits in the last few years. We’ve got temporaries that have been here over seven years and are still temporaries, and they’re asking for more temporaries. They’re moving our plants out of country; they’re taking them to Mexico and to China. And now they’re asking for concessions on our healthcare. I don’t know about you, but that’s the only reason I took this job. I used to have my own drywall company. I took it for the benefits. """ https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/18/uaw_nationwide_strikes_gm https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/18/uaw_nationwide_strike...