Looming over the United Auto Workers strike: Automakers’ continued migration to the anti-union South.
Beginning in the 1970s and 1980s, the auto industry began shifting South, a region long characterized by hostility to labor unions and by low wages.
Since then, assembly lines of higher-paid UAW workers at Detroit’s Big Three – Ford, General Motors and Stellantis – have shrunk. And automakers such as Volvo, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Toyota and Hyundai have steadily hired nonunion autoworkers, who make less money for substantially the same work, in the South.
The Big Three still depend on the UAW for work. Unlike some people claim, they don’t have the capacity, the time or the workforce to move production somewhere else. I doubt the UAW is all that worried.
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…or those factories see what being unionized gets them and vote to unionize.
They should be worried because the big three haven’t adapted quickly enough.
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at least now it’s making a come back
Yeah, you guys do love your private prison slave labor, don’t you?
Hey stop making fun of them. You know their have the lowest rankings in education and quality of life. They won’t really understand it anyways.
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If they knew how to get things done why did they get their shit kicked in? So much for General Lee’s military genius and “know how to get things done.” SHERMAN AND DRUNK ASS GRANT DONE FUCKED YOU ALL UP.
