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Aren’t unions why the USA has no auto industry?
by mjfl 5y ago
Aren’t unions why the USA has no auto industry?
- michael1999 5y agoUnions didn't waste 20 years designing fins on big-block engines that broke down on the regular.
- rootusrootus 5y agoNo auto industry? Who is producing the ~10M cars a year, then? https://www.statista.com/statistics/198518/us-motor-vehicle-production-since-1999/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/198518/us-motor-vehicle-...
- oh_sigh 5y agoFor comparison with other countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_motor_vehicle_production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_motor_veh... Literally only China makes more cars that the US. US beats Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Germany...
- kwhitefoot 5y agoIt's a pity that chart doesn't also show per capita production. Japan, South Korea, and Germany make more per capita than both the US and China. Even Canada does.
- mikeyouse 5y agoPer capita seems mostly irrelevant? And of course the auto workers in Canada, Germany, South Korea and Japan are all unionized...
- kwhitefoot 5y agoIf you are going to compare countries with a billion inhabitants, like China, with ones that have 340 million, like the US, and with those that have only 50 million, say South Korea, you surely need to normalise the figures. Otherwise it's not really an apples to apples comparison. Perhaps population ratio isn't the right choice, any suggestions for another?
- bushbaba 5y agoCars are made in the us due to import tariffs on non domestic cars.
- rootusrootus 5y agoIn that case we can probably include the cars made in Canada and Mexico as counting towards the US total.
- dhosek 5y agoNo. Worth noting that (a) The USA does have an auto industry and (2) the decline of union membership correlates perfectly to the stagnation of middle-class wages and the increase of corporate revenues going to the wealthy.