GM Strike
How does everyone feel about all the GM union members on strike placing nails and screws out onto the streets that their customers who keep them employed drive on? Causing damage to multiple vehicles....
Forum Discussion
librty02 wrote:Bert Ackerman wrote:Reisender wrote:ShinerBock wrote:Reisender wrote:
Autoworkers feel EV’s will be job killers.
https://www.autonews.com/manufacturing/auto-workers-fear-evs-will-be-job-killers
That is pretty interesting. I wonder if the temp employer thing they say they are holding out for is just a ruse, and they are really holding to stop EV's. After all, the temp worker thing has been around for decades and could have been a point for previous contract negotiations, but never was. Why is it now?
Stopping EV’s wouldn’t make any sense. The market for non EV’s is going to continue to shrink. Being an employee of a company with an ever shrinking market would be more scary than being an employee that is downsizing for modernization reasons.
Have you ever been downsized out of a job? I was downsized out of the steel industry in the early 80's, after wasting close to 10 years. Granted the company started by driving the nails and pounding on them for years prior, but the USW played a large role in driving them home. It was no picnic and there is an entire valley 30 miles long in western PA where I grew up where tens of thousands of people / families, and dozens of towns, were totally decimated financially. A lot of those areas are still depressed 40 years later. It's easy to comment on forums regarding things one never experienced.
Bert
Many of my family members were a part of all of that in the early 80's...the mon valley area both steel and rail industry alone employed more people in the 60' and 70's early 80s than are left here in the area today. The area had never recouped from it and never will. ET, Irvin, and Clairton are the only mills still running today and not at a 1/10 of the capacity they were years ago. Hopefully you made it out ok and lived a prosperous life after that.
I have a close cousin who has about 25 in at Clairton. He was telling me last Xmas he does not see making it past the next contract negotiation. Also the County, State, and Fed are all on them heavy for environmental issues. No biggie. Those guys can always go get a job at Dollar General or Tree, plenty of those around.
If Clairton goes, next goes ET, if ET goes, next goes Irvin. Deja Vu.
