cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/830212
The absolutely beautiful reason that I can tell that they still aren’t agreeing to Fords concessions is because they in solidarity with new workers that don’t even exist yet, are demanding that Fords new battery plants they are building be placed under the same labor agreement they are fighting for.
“The UAW, according to Ford officials, has taken a hard line on requiring the company’s four new battery plants be placed under the terms of the labor agreement.”
Blackout ( @Blackout@kbin.social ) 35•9 months agoFord: We got the cash but we’d rather shoot ourselves in the foot and cut off a leg. Those MBA jerks running the companies are morons.
JokeDeity ( @JokeDeity@lemm.ee ) 13•9 months agoI legitimately believe, in my heart of hearts, that people will business degrees more than anyone else have ruined this world.
intensely_human ( @intensely_human@lemm.ee ) 1•9 months agoWhy do you even have a rank ordered list of who ruined the world?
sharpiemarker ( @Sharpiemarker@feddit.de ) 20•9 months agoGood on the workers! Solidarity with the people! ✊
HuddaBudda ( @HuddaBudda@kbin.social ) 12•9 months agoBryce Currie, Ford’s vice president of manufacturing in the Americas, said the company anticipates nine of those 13 plants will have to lay off as many as 4,600 workers in total over the coming weeks, with the first layoffs happening in a matter of days.
“I want to stress, this will be a prolonged impact. Even if the strike is short-lived, it will have a prolonged impact, because bringing a plant back up is much more intensive than putting it down,” Currie explained in an Oct. 12 media call.
Kentucky Truck makes F-series Super Duty pickups as well as Ford Expedition SUVs and Lincoln Navigator SUVs. It generates $25 billion in annual revenue, or 16% of Ford’s annual global revenue, and produces a vehicle every 37 seconds.
Sounds like the VP understands that this is going to cost them a large amount. Also sounds like he isn’t 100% on board with it, but time and actions will tell.
I wouldn’t be either, There is no way they are going to be able to replace 5,000 auto workers easily. Anyone who has ever taking their car to a mechanic will know what I mean.
DarkGamer ( @DarkGamer@kbin.social ) 9•9 months agoThe corpus would rather cut off its arm than provide it with enough bloodflow to keep it healthy.
intensely_human ( @intensely_human@lemm.ee ) 2•9 months agoRight because there’s no benefit to having the parts of your company be healthy
cobra89 ( @cobra89@beehaw.org ) 5•9 months agoDo you think all auto workers are mechanics? I’m all for the UAW fighting for their rights but it’s not like these positions are highly skilled. Are you aware of the whole premise of the production line and workers each only having 1 job to do for weeks or even months before moving to the next rotation?
It will take time to train 5,000 workers sure, but it’s training that is done in a matter of a few days or less and they’re constantly changing roles on the line and learning new things anyway. The training for these positions is already highly streamlined and simple.
Chetzemoka ( @Chetzemoka@startrek.website ) 11•9 months agoIt is illegal under federal law to fire workers for striking. Mass layoffs like this were likely already something they were planning and they’re just using the strike as an excuse to make it seem less like it’s just the naked corporate greed that it really is.
Sparking ( @spark947@lemm.ee ) English3•9 months agoIt would be very illegal for them to continually keep these plans around as a strike response.
Chetzemoka ( @Chetzemoka@startrek.website ) 1•9 months agoNot as a strike response. I’m saying they likely had recent plans to just lay people off for financial reasons and the strike became an excuse to blame that on.
intensely_human ( @intensely_human@lemm.ee ) 2•9 months agoThe workers being laid off are not the ones striking.
Chetzemoka ( @Chetzemoka@startrek.website ) 2•9 months agoI’m referring to the title of this post
Reality Suit ( @Reality_Suit@lemmy.one ) 6•9 months agoI’ve already said fuck Ford as they made their vehicles harder to work on yourself. Fuck each and every auto company. We should be past electric vehicles and using magnetic propulsion, but they have to make sure their profits aren’t negatively affected.
shasta ( @shasta@lemm.ee ) 1•9 months agoWouldn’t that require new infrastructure?
Rob Bos ( @rbos@lemmy.ca ) 1•9 months agoLike maglev?
- ByteWizard ( @ByteWizard@lemm.ee ) English1•9 months ago
Ford throwing off the burden of the UAW would be a huge win for consumers. Fords might actually be built well for once, and they’d be cheaper.
Scary le Poo ( @Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org ) 6•9 months agoYou are, objectively, a moron.
Chetzemoka ( @Chetzemoka@startrek.website ) 5•9 months agoConsumers ARE working class people, you know that, right? Unions improve conditions across the board for working class people by creating competitive pressure to increase wages and improve working conditions. Unions are good for consumers.
- ByteWizard ( @ByteWizard@lemm.ee ) English1•9 months ago
Unions are good for consumers.
In theory, I agree. In practice that’s not the actual result.
Chetzemoka ( @Chetzemoka@startrek.website ) 2•9 months ago*citation needed lmao
Oh wait, here you go:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4880255/
https://www.epi.org/publication/unions-and-well-being/
Unions are good for the public WHO ARE CONSUMERS, you muppet.
tocopherol ( @tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 2•9 months agoWhat are you basing that belief on? There is no evidence to back that up, unions have been shown to benefit workers and consumers time and time again.