Leave it to Safiel to be a Debbie Downer, but somebody has to be.
National Review just came out with a good take on VW’s recent lamentable unionization in Chattanooga and experience tells us that the workers in that plant will eventually lament their vote.
Unlike the previous unionization drive, VW, under EXTREMELY heavy government pressure, remained neutral during this drive, which is a sure path to ruin.
VW’s Pennsylvania facility was unionized in 1978. It closed in 1987 after much turmoil.
I doubt the Chattanooga facility will even make it the same 9 years.
I advise the union workers in Chattanooga to use some of their new wages on education and new skills. Your going to need it.
In my opinion, there’s no point in electing Democrats if they don’t do at least that much. The party has to bet on the ideal of an empowered working class, otherwise they’re worthless.
Robotics easily can out perform and out produce any union worker. More cost efficient and no need for medical benefits, paid vacations, maternity leaves or union dues
As 3D printing technology advance and mature, will produce in house widgets, fasteners etc as needed thus eliminating supply line and inventory replenishment.
Amazon already uses primitive robotics and the human overseers are struggling to keep pace.
Tesla claim to use robotics but dont know to what extent.
A dock light or pallet jack does not produce anything thus there is no loss of production when it breaks. At my previous jobs, no line machine was down for long, as soon as it was reported down, maintenance was on scene working to get it back up.
You are trying to compare income producing equipment to a freaking light bulb. HUGE fail
Unless you bought a Rabbit convertible with the GTI engine. Those were built in Germany. They were also substantially different than their hatchback cousins. They had the Golf interior instead of the Rabbif interior (higher quality materials used and their design was similar to the late 70s Golfs) and the GTI engine was of higher output compared to the Rabbit GTI Hatche’s detuned North American version.
So if you were in the 80s and smart and wanted a Rabbit, you bought a convertible and specced the 2.0L engine. Cause they were actually built with care.
i can vouch for that. some of the old timers at work, talked about wildcat strikes of the 1970s. it was a turbulent time for union members, now notsomuch.
Yeah…around that time in 1970, there were steel workers and automobile production in Detroit, Flint Michigan, Pittsburg steel workers and so many more jobs across the nation in manufacturing but …now…notsomuch.
Unions got greedy in the 70s. My grandad was in a strike at that time. He always had a second job; building cabinets. So he just did that while the strike was ongoing. What’s funny is that all of it was really for nothing. Union and management decided to restore the status quo antebellum. So nobody got anything.
