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.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      Yeah, we’re about to be flooded with stories about how bad the UAW/ strike is for workers, business, the economy, and your Aunt Ethel. It’s all bullshit.

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        1 year ago

        The really sad part is that they don’t even have to astroturf. They have an army of useful idiots who will post all kinds of anti-labor propaganda and not even realize it’s all a lie.

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              1 year ago

              Thanks, but we did not need an example of someone who has fallen for the anti-union propaganda.

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                1 year ago

                Why not? We have a number of examples here of someone who has fallen for pro-union propaganda.

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                    1 year ago

                    You are putting words in my mouth that I never said. Unions as an idea are not bad. However their implementation over the years has done a number of things that are bad.

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      1 year ago

      not immediately, no - but over the next decade? yeah, UAW’s days are numbered.