While I generally support such things, how about because the dominant EV manufacturer is not unionized and these companies are already struggling for relevance? There has to be a balance between treating employees fairly and maintaining a successful business. Hopefully the results will be somewhere in that balance zone
Clearly not, but if they’re already struggling to remain relevant in this transition, paying significantly more to employees won’t help. I mean, they offered 20% raises, UAW counters 40%: let’s all meet at 30% with retraining, job transfer guarantees, insourcing, and get back to work. Given all the press about fewer parts, fewer workers, legacy automakers’ habit of mass layoffs to start over with newer cheaper labor, previous policies of outsourcing to non-union contractors, there’s a lot more to good quality jobs than just the pay
While I generally support such things, how about because the dominant EV manufacturer is not unionized and these companies are already struggling for relevance? There has to be a balance between treating employees fairly and maintaining a successful business. Hopefully the results will be somewhere in that balance zone
Show me the (unbiased) research that says American auto makers’ problems are having a unionized workforce.
Clearly not, but if they’re already struggling to remain relevant in this transition, paying significantly more to employees won’t help. I mean, they offered 20% raises, UAW counters 40%: let’s all meet at 30% with retraining, job transfer guarantees, insourcing, and get back to work. Given all the press about fewer parts, fewer workers, legacy automakers’ habit of mass layoffs to start over with newer cheaper labor, previous policies of outsourcing to non-union contractors, there’s a lot more to good quality jobs than just the pay
There is no balance. If you can’t treat employees fairly you don’t have a successful business. You have a slave shop