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[Machiavellian]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Jaicee said:

So the United Auto Workers are on strike against General Motors now for the first time since 2007. (Live updates here.) It's the largest strike action against an American company to take place in the U.S. since...the last time the United Auto Workers went on strike against General Motors in 2007. Nearly 50,000 workers are participating, demanding better pay and health care benefits, job protections, expanded profit sharing, and more. GM workers made huge sacrifices during the company's bankruptcy proceedings amidst the Great Recession, but the company has returned to making tens of billions in profits since then and the workers are wondering why as much is not reflected in their pay and benefits.

Thanks mainly to a wave of teacher strikes, the largest number of work stoppages, and of workers participating in work stoppages, since the 1980s was seen last year, and total number of unionized workers increased for the first time in decades. This year's totals could be higher. It appears we are witnessing a new trend toward the revitalization of the American labor movement.

I've got no further comment except to say that I fully support this action and movement unequivocally. I hope this trend continues.

I'm happy to see that America finally sees the value of unions and how to use them.

Machiavellian said:

Yep, this will definitely make sure they move production out of the US as fast as possible.  They will institute some stopgate measure to get people back to work while they plan on moving production even more out of the US.  Should be interesting in the next 5 years how this all plays out.

If that was even remotely true, then Germany wouldn't have any car production plants for a long time anymore. But they still produce tons of cars, half as many as the US in fact, which are the second biggest producer after China.

Not sure what Germany has anything to do with the US or even GM for that matter.  I am talking specifically about GM themselves and what they have been doing lately.  Just Ohio alone shows that GM is shutting down plants even though they are making huge profits.  Workers going on strike, demanding more money when they are already closing plants probably making them feel they are making the right moves instead of the opposite.