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[Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
The United Auto Workers (UAW) announced on Friday that it is expanding its major nationwide strike against the Big Three automakers. Negotiations have failed and 146,000 autoworkers continue to be without a contract; the union is demanding continuing benefits for up to two years in case of an indefinite layoff, which is a very real possibility in light of Old Joe Biden’s proposed electric vehicle mandate. The regime’s EV mandate would decimate the auto industry and eliminate as many as 117,000 jobs. And so is the UAW standing up and denouncing Biden? Come on, man! The UAW is zeroing in on the real problem here: Donald Trump.
About 13,000 UAW members are on strike now, and the Daily Caller reported Friday that “more workers will go on strike as the union and automakers continue to be unable to reach a deal.” The UAW strike will now extend to “38 new plants across the U.S.”; this is a significant expansion, as “the UAW first announced its partial strike on Sept. 14, striking at three plants: GM’s plant in Wentzville, Missouri; Ford’s plant in Wayne, Michigan; and Stellantis’ Jeep plant in Toledo, Ohio.”
UAW President Shawn Fain declared that “all of the parts distribution centers at General Motors and Stellantis will be called to stand up and strike. We will be striking 38 locations across 20 states, across all 9 regions of the UAW.” Ford is not included in the expansion of the strike because it has offered numerous concessions to the UAW, while General Motors and Stellantis have not. Ford’s offer includes “enhanced profit sharing and the conversion of temporary employees into full-time,” as well as “job security for up to two years in the event of an indefinite layoff.”
Now, why would the UAW be pushing for something like “job security for up to two years in the event of an indefinite layoff”? Is the union worried about indefinite layoffs? Clearly it is, and it has good reason to be. The America First Policy Institute revealed last July that “proposed Biden Administration regulations would require Americans to switch to electric vehicles they do not want. Under the draft rules, auto manufacturers would be required to increase the proportion of electric vehicles they sell from 6% to 67% in less than a decade.”
This requirement would decimate the auto industry, for “electric vehicles have fewer parts and require considerably less labor to manufacture than conventional gas-powered vehicles. As a result, mass vehicle electrification will eliminate many jobs.” Specifically, “the Biden Administration’s mandate would eliminate a net 117,000 auto manufacturing jobs nationwide. The Midwest would bear the brunt of these losses. Even under a best-case scenario, the Biden EV mandate would cost Michigan (-25,000), Indiana (-16,000), and Ohio (-14,000) tens of thousands of auto manufacturing jobs.”
So the Biden regime’s obsession with tanking the American economy in the name of addressing the fictional problem of “climate change” would cost Michigan as many as 25,000 jobs. Yet on Wednesday, Fain denounced not Biden, but Donald Trump, who is planning to come to Detroit and speak to UAW members next Wednesday. With all the leftist sanctimony he could muster, Fain proclaimed that “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. We can’t keep electing billionaires and millionaires that don’t have any understanding what it is like to live paycheck to paycheck and struggle to get by and expecting them to solve the problems of the working class.”
Fain has apparently forgotten that gas prices have skyrocketed amid a general steep increase in inflation since the Biden regime took over from Trump. He seems to be unaware of or indifferent to the fact that the push for electric vehicles that threatens to decimate his industry is the work of the Biden regime, not of the Bad Orange Man.
Quite some time ago, Biden regime apparatchiks revealed the game that is being played. Back in March 2022, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg responded to skyrocketing gas prices by asserting airily that Americans could simply go electric: “Clean transportation can bring significant cost savings for the American people as well. Last month, we announced a $5 billion investment to build out a nationwide electric vehicle charging network so that people from rural to suburban to urban communities can all benefit from the gas savings of driving an EV.” Pete wasn’t alone: around the same time, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Michael Regan boasted, “We’re pressing the accelerator to reach a zero-emissions future sooner than most people thought.” Nothing presses the accelerator to reach a zero-emissions future more effectively than gas prices rising so high that driving a car powered on fossil fuels is simply too expensive. And remember, back in 2020, Old Joe Biden promised during a presidential debate that he would “transition away from the oil industry.”
That transition will severely weaken and could destroy the auto industry. So let’s hear it again, President Fain: tell us how the man who could save your industry is so bad, and why you support the man who is working to destroy that industry. The conditions over which the UAW is striking are ones that the union brought upon itself and actively supported. Now they’re reaping what they have sown.
This is disappointing. BIden will erase their jobs without a second thought if he can get it done. He still wants to be “transformational” and to his perverted administration, Shawn Fain is a relic. They are laughing at him and his obsolete union. Too bad, Trump is going there to listen.
Not only is TaliBiden and his terrorist regime destroying the American automobile industry but it will also crush the national power grid. Battery powered vechiles are yet another LeftTwat scam of our money
Never EVER buy crud made by union run companies. EVER.
True.
For proof all one needs is consider what teacher unions have done to education in this Nation.
We can weave through the contract and economical nuances of this, but at the same time, keep your eyes on their goal.
NO CARS FOR THE SERFS. Complete control of our comings and goings.
The bigger plan is that EV’s are just a stepping stone to the elite’s ultimate goal…..no cars for the peon class….let them ride buses.
“You will own nothing and be happy” says the WEF
If the UAW keeps this up their going to go the way of ACORN and be disbanded
UAW workers had better take advantage of their excellent educational bennies to gain marketable knowledge or skills (most are unskilled), because they’re on track for extinction. They’re almost as sheltered as government employees and are in for a rude awakening when they get into the real job market.
Unions ONCE had a reason to be…NOT ANYMORE!
Teachers
Deep State
Term BUSTING DIMOCRAPS
SEIU (community destroyers)
ACLU (oxymorons)
All unionized AGAINST AMERICA and AMERICANS.
I saw over the weekend where most of the F-150 (Ford’s smallest full sized trucks) at one dealership were priced over $80,000. Back when I financed cars, I never got a loan for more than 4 years. Now some people have to get 6+ year loans to buy a car that will lose 40% of it’s value the minute you drive it off the lot.
How do they think people will be able to afford American made vehicles in the future?
the whole fiasco is a prelude to sending their jobs to china , china manufactures all things green and continues to build more coal fired power stations . it’s all part of dismantling any american production of anything . this is what 81 million votes gets you , or so they keep telling us . you wont need to vote for them next time round because they have fixed the system so that it will install them again . welcome to a failed one party country .
Why is the government even involved in electric cars in the first place? The gasoline powered car did not need The Government to subsidize the construction of gas stations; streets were paved with municipal, county, or state money, and things grew as demand grew.
Get Uncle out of the entire thing. No tax credits for electric or hybrid cars, no fuel economy standards, no nothing. Let the free market take hold and the rest will take care of itself. On that last part, no. Lack of economy standards will NOT see the return of the American land yacht. Too many have discovered they like the handling and parking ease of smaller cars. Most cars today could cross the US with no issues at all given the improvements in seats, drive trains, tires, and suspensions.
Many strong men built the great nation of The United States of America.
In contrast, sinister contrast in weak in suits are destroying this nation. The epitome of such a weak man-wearing suit is Joe Biden. It should be understood that Biden is the tip of the iceberg and there are a number in insidious men, in suits who are upholding and using their puppet ‘President” as their stooge and useful idiot to inflect terrible harm on the USA.
As for that villain ,Biden , and those “behind the curtains” who use weak old Joe as their tool to fulfill their wicked and cunning agenda .
Nevertheless, all good patriotic Americans should let those evil men discourages us from legally acting against them and horrible goals Likewise those scoundrels in power dishearten and dispirit in any way.
We need to be strong against them and not let them get us down.
There is an old Latin saying which may apply to this situation. That saying is ‘nil carborundum illegitimi” Which means “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
Joe Biden doesn’t care about America or the American people, so it’s an action of futility to contact that pseudo “president” about any impotent matter. For Biden will not respond to reason or logic.
That fiendish villain, Biden and his administration are an abomination to everything that is wise, good .fair decent just and right. As he has proven by his appointments, orders policies and politics of are nothing but folly and madness if not outright reason.
With all the awful things done by Biden, he is an extremely incompetent fool and outright idiot, or the second case is the he is a treacherous treasonous subversive scoundrel and an outright villain.
Bye bye to jobs in the US.