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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12541815/General-Motors-lays-2-000-workers-Kansas-assembly-plant-workers-facility-Detroit-went-strike-no-work-UAW-president-threatens-people-walk-job-Friday-demands-not-met.html

General Motors lays off 2,000 workers at Kansas assembly plant
after workers at facility in Detroit went on strike because 'there
is no work' - as UAW president threatens that MORE people will
walk off the job by Friday if demands are not met

. . .

So much for the hope of cheaper - if even GETTABLE - cars
this year .......

Now the strikers DO have a semi-good case - their wages
haven't gone up in a LONG time ... since well before
Joe's recession. Meanwhile the companies have been making
increasing profits.

Alas, what we're seeing here - and from BOTH sides of the
equation - is a "Fuck Everybody" attitude. Not a speck
of statesmanship/patriotism to be found. ME and MONEY and
nothing else.

The US auto industry really DID need to add up some good
profits post-Covid. On the flip, they could have shared
SOME of that bounty with their workers too.

Is there going to BE a US auto industry a year from now,
five years from now ? Seems we can't make ANYTHING here
without the gimme-gimme mentality ruining everything.

Oh well, CHINA is now making numerous cars - I'd rate
them about like the lower-end Hundai's ... not great
but "functional". China would LOVE to become the prime
auto-maker for the USA/EU - more power. I wonder what
those "secret negotiations" last week were about ? :-)

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