United Auto Workers On Strike

[B-Man]

 

 

How the game is played: Ford pauses MI EV battery plant construction, UAW in freak-out mode

By BEEGE WELBORN

 

While a shamefully pandering POTATUS shambled alongside smirking Shawn Fain, United Auto Worker president, at a picket line in Michigan this morning, one of the D-3 protagonists in this workers’ melodrama was busy assessing ongoing business options and came to the conclusion one of them needed some reassessing.

 

Ford has been the focus of some slightly more positive press from the UAW in recent negotiations, after coming back to the table with what Fain called “good progress” late last week.

 

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Some 5,500 United Auto Workers members at 38 sites on Friday joined what’s being called a Stand Up Strike, walking off the job at all parts distribution centers across the nation at General Motors and Stellantis.

The walkout came after UAW President Shawn Fain announced in the morning that the sites would be targeted as an expansion in the union’s one-week-old action against Detroit Three automakers.

…In his morning announcement, Fain said the union had made good progress with Ford Motor Co. this week, but GM and Stellantis “will need some pushing.”

 

 

In spite of what passes for warm fuzzies in union contract negotiations, Ford upped the ante this morning. In a surprise move, the corporation announced it was “temporarily” halting construction on the new bazillion dollar EV battery plant it’s building in Michigan with – SURPRISE! – a Chinese company

 

 

https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/09/26/how-the-game-is-played-ford-pauses-mi-ev-battery-plant-construction-uaw-in-freak-out-mode-n580589

 

 

 

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[John from Riverside]

Go to see old and decrepit Joe out there on the picket line

 

 

Edited September 27, 2023 by John from Riverside

[leh-nerd skin-erd]

2 hours ago, John from Riverside said:

Go to see old and decrepit Joe out there on the picket line

 

 

“No, Mr. President, we’re the UAW, and Jimmy Hoffa has been dead since 1975.”

[BillStime]

Meanwhile - who is Trump meeting with?

 

 

[Tommy Callahan]

1 minute ago, BillStime said:

Meanwhile - who is Trump meeting with?

 

 

LMAO at this gem

 

"Every fiber of our union is being poured into fighting the billionaire class and an economy that enriches people like Donald Trump at the expense of workers," Fain wrote in a statement.

 

Biden is the face of the billionaire class and the economy that only works for that class.

 

 

[John from Riverside]

1 minute ago, Chris farley said:

LMAO at this gem

 

"Every fiber of our union is being poured into fighting the billionaire class and an economy that enriches people like Donald Trump at the expense of workers," Fain wrote in a statement.

 

Biden is the face of the billionaire class and the economy that only works for that class.

 

 

Biden is the face of the billionaire class?

 

He is nowhere near worth that much

[BillStime]

6 minutes ago, Chris farley said:

Biden is the face of the billionaire class

 

7 minutes ago, Chris farley said:

the economy that only works for that class.

 

 

jfc - these people are pathetic 

[wnyguy]

10 minutes ago, John from Riverside said:

Biden is the face of the billionaire class?

 

He is nowhere near worth that much

I guess that would depend on the amount of kickback he is getting from the billions given to Ukraine, doesn't it?

Edited September 27, 2023 by wnyguy

[John from Riverside]

2 minutes ago, wnyguy said:

I guess that would depend on the amount of kickback he is getting from the billions given to Ukraine, doesn't it?

If it were true

[wnyguy]

Just now, John from Riverside said:

If it were true

Well somebody is sure getting rich from this fiasco.

[Tommy Callahan]

Just now, John from Riverside said:

Biden is the face of the billionaire class?

 

He is nowhere near worth that much

The ones that fund the PACS, Charities that paid for that 5-billion-dollar election, ARE from that class.  

 

 

[leh-nerd skin-erd]

32 minutes ago, John from Riverside said:

Biden is the face of the billionaire class?

 

He is nowhere near worth that much

Come on John, he’s an incredibly wealthy guy who’s been a government lifer, with incredible wealth visited upon his immediate family members.   He’s a guy who if he wasn’t in office is exactly the sort of fat cat using the tax code to duck his fair share.   
 

Remember John the hated folks these days are millionaires and billionaires. 

[BillStime]

Conald and Caputo are chuckling 
 

 

[ChiGoose]

2 minutes ago, BillStime said:

Conald and Caputo are chuckling 
 

 

Trump is stumping with non-union workers and pretending to care about the unions. 
 

The first and foremost goal of the GOP is to transfer wealth from working Americans to the donor class, so actually supporting people trying to fight for decent wages is an anathema. 

[Tommy Callahan]

TDS on display on a thread about a union strike.

 

 

7 hours ago, ChiGoose said:

Trump is stumping with non-union workers and pretending to care about the unions. 
 

The first and foremost goal of the GOP is to transfer wealth from working Americans to the donor class, so actually supporting people trying to fight for decent wages is an anathema. 

So the GOP has been in control since the pandemic.  cause that's when the gap started to pick up steam and its only gotten larger since.

 

 

 

 

[Tommy Callahan]

On 9/26/2023 at 10:03 PM, B-Man said:

 

 

How the game is played: Ford pauses MI EV battery plant construction, UAW in freak-out mode

By BEEGE WELBORN

 

While a shamefully pandering POTATUS shambled alongside smirking Shawn Fain, United Auto Worker president, at a picket line in Michigan this morning, one of the D-3 protagonists in this workers’ melodrama was busy assessing ongoing business options and came to the conclusion one of them needed some reassessing.

 

Ford has been the focus of some slightly more positive press from the UAW in recent negotiations, after coming back to the table with what Fain called “good progress” late last week.

 

 

In spite of what passes for warm fuzzies in union contract negotiations, Ford upped the ante this morning. In a surprise move, the corporation announced it was “temporarily” halting construction on the new bazillion dollar EV battery plant it’s building in Michigan with – SURPRISE! – a Chinese company

 

 

https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/09/26/how-the-game-is-played-ford-pauses-mi-ev-battery-plant-construction-uaw-in-freak-out-mode-n580589

 

 

 

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I was just reading in the ways and means committee minutes about an investigation into Ford/China battery facility.

 

 

https://waysandmeans.house.gov/smith-gallagher-rodgers-seek-compliance-after-ford-refuses-to-cooperate-with-investigations-into-ccp-aligned-ev-battery-partnership/

 

"Smith, Gallagher, Rodgers Seek Compliance After Ford Refuses to Cooperate with Investigations into CCP-Aligned EV Battery Partnership"

 

How much of Blackrock is owned by china?

Vanguard?

 

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/08/investing/blackrock-china-fund-intl-hnk/index.html#:~:text=BlackRock’s new investment fund in China — the,week and has attracted more than 111%2C000 investors.

 

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/blackrock-wins-chinese-regulatory-approval-onshore-mutual-fund-business-2021-06-11/#:~:text=BlackRock%2C the world's biggest asset manager%2C on Friday,April 1%2C 2020%2C under a Sino-U.S. trade deal.

 

https://fortune.com/2021/09/09/blackrock-china-mutual-fund-investment-soros-mistake/

 

https://www.thinkadvisor.com/2021/11/29/vanguard-plans-actively-managed-china-equity-fund/

 

[All_Pro_Bills]

7 hours ago, ChiGoose said:

Trump is stumping with non-union workers and pretending to care about the unions. 
 

The first and foremost goal of the GOP is to transfer wealth from working Americans to the donor class, so actually supporting people trying to fight for decent wages is an anathema. 

Once again reality, when examined objectively, reveals the Biden administration is no friend of the UAW and "working Americans".  This administration is working overtime to force consumers into EV's through interference in the market.  Take the Inflation Reduction Act and mandates for EV''s.  Add in generous tax credits that go to mostly high income people courtesy of the working class and intentionally making gasoline more expense to increase the total cost of ownership closer to way more expensive EV's.  Biden, friend of the working American, intentionally increasing their cost of living.

 

Selling and building EVs' requires a lot less labor to produce and guess what happens to the excess workforce when they're no longer needed?  Bye, bye another 25 plus percent of UAW members.  

[Doc]

2 hours ago, All_Pro_Bills said:

Once again reality, when examined objectively, reveals the Biden administration is no friend of the UAW and "working Americans".  This administration is working overtime to force consumers into EV's through interference in the market.  Take the Inflation Reduction Act and mandates for EV''s.  Add in generous tax credits that go to mostly high income people courtesy of the working class and intentionally making gasoline more expense to increase the total cost of ownership closer to way more expensive EV's.  Biden, friend of the working American, intentionally increasing their cost of living.

 

Selling and building EVs' requires a lot less labor to produce and guess what happens to the excess workforce when they're no longer needed?  Bye, bye another 25 plus percent of UAW members.  

 

People rarely think of the future consequences of their actions.  It's mostly immediate gratification.

[Andy1]

Totally predictable. He picked the audience from “central casting” to make sure they looked good.

[All_Pro_Bills]

10 hours ago, Andy1 said:

Totally predictable. He picked the audience from “central casting” to make sure they looked good.

Should the reality that political events and speeches are scripted and choreographed be of any surprise?  It's all a game of slight of hand and illusion.  Look at the President, he's incapable of answering a simple question unless the question was previously submitted and approved along with having an answer on a queue card, which he reads verbatim, that was crafted by a member of his staff.  When you hear "I was told to call on you first" as the initial statement of a Q&A session its a good clue spontaneity is not a factor.