I already lost my job to this strike. I hauled parts to KTP and Chicago Assembly. My employer closed our terminal.If and when this settles good luck getting parts and getting them delivered.
Decades ago unions were necessary to combat unfair labor practices. Today , all they do is drive the cost of their product through the roof with REDICULOUS monetary and benefit demands. I hope they strike themselves right out of a job! They endorsed this president which coincidentally is THE reason for their struggles to "make ends meet" because of his inflationary policies!
Can't afford a Ford truck now anyways, base model starts at ~$32,000 and modestly outfitted runs closer to ~$40,000. About to price themselves out of the market.
The UAW is about to drive that cost up a few thousand dollars per vehicle with their unreasonable demands. I will never buy a UAW manufactured vehicle again in my life, I will boycott the UAW.
@@indianapublicland7429 this is everywhere. The recent generations have been raised toward technology and automation. But industry hasn't caught up yet. So when they see a manual assembly line they are horrified. It'll change as industry catches up
I'm not sure how much unskilled labor is in an auto manufacturing plant. There are a lot of sysyems and subsystems in every car that take a certain amount of skill and experience to assemble correctly (some more than others). This is to say nothing of the people that maintain the infrastructure of the plant itself.
Good for them. They will prii on babky automate it in China or Mexico , I would if I were them. The democrats and unions have went full out commie at this point
@@kristopherhilton8065right, but whiney, under skilled, over paid, under worked, over protected, over benefited "workers" are just fanning the flames.
@@NonTypicalRacing le time ask you a simple question. If there was an affordable robot that could do your job would your employer replace you. Don't give me B's about skilled either I'm an electrician I install the robots, cncs, cameras, ECT that take the place of workers trust me it's a no brainier humans are the weakness we need breaks, we need to be taught, we fuck up. They are always looking to automate for higher profit margins
Companies giving their CEOs enough bonus money to double each employees salary yet you want to place blame on the workers that gave up so many benefits to make sure these companies could stay afloat during the US recession. They broke themselves.
Yes it is, especially with the economy already bad this is going to harmit even more because when the Auto plants go down everything else collapses around it
Why? Around 2008 ford cried to them saying can we just temporarily stop the inflation pay increase in order to save the company, they worked agreed to stop it temporarily and to later have it back. The company never did put it back company was making profit and never made a pay increase or changes. You really shouldn’t support billion dollar companies, remember you’re just a number.
@@shaymalchione809Running a global company is far and away more important then bolting on fenders. Most assembly jobs can be done with minimal training time and virtually no education. Stop crying and go work your shift son.
@@LayzeeGiant You can’t justify someone giving themselves $29m while paying their workers crap no matter how hard you try. Check your bank account & see which side you stand with. I stand with American workers against corporate greed.
@@shaymalchione809CEOs don’t pay themselves, the board of directors and shareholders decide their pay. And all this Rah Rah patriotic BS just leads to jobs being sent to Mexico or China. Wake up and realize there is no loyalty from employers OR employees in this country. I own my own business and employ a crew of 6. I pay them current wages for the work I need done. If it’s not enough, they can go elsewhere. But they stay because it’s good pay and steady work. Unions are bullshit organizations that have made workers lazy and overpaid all the while causing manufacturing jobs to be shipped abroad or automated. There’s plenty of people to fill those striking worker jobs that would be happy for a paycheck. Spewing rhetoric and walking in circles waving signs has never benefitted anyone.
@@jdcustom4655 The engineers have to adhere to company efficiency policies that tend to complicate otherwise simple systems and are under infinitely more pressure than the line workers. You couldn't pay me enough to do their job.
The engineers aren't worth a damn, most of them don't know what a spark plug is or where it goes, and they check on you every 10 minutes to see if you have the trans swapped yet. All the good ones are gone.
While I was a Union man I can and will say this. They keep pushing this hard and they will be replaced in the very near future with robots. Their jobs are not that difficult and are asking for so much. I did construction and my life was on the line every day. Which is why I got paid because it was dangerous work.
I agree with you 100 percent. I'm a farmer I work 7days a week with no price guarantee of what I sell the way the truck prices are right now I'll probably never buy another new truck and if this strike raises the prices like I've heard they will nobody will buy a truck. as far as I'm concerned just go ahead and get robots to replace them
@@itsallminor6133 then you should try farming especially last summer when diesel fuel was over 6 dollars a gallon and fertilizer prices doubled all because of Biden. my diesel fuel cost in 2022 was a little over 38 thousand dollars
@@jamesmcclanahan4091 ukraine war and russian fertilizer exports did some damage i had heard. I didn't know how much or the extent. You are the first farmer I've talked too since. Before it seemed farmers were raking in the cash leasing growing fields for solar panels and ethanol. So in all seriousness, how are you doing? We talking "not a good year" or "this is seriously bad, negative, can't pay bills " year?
@@itsallminor6133no farmers are not do good! Don’t know where you get your information.. CNN, mnbc… this solar crap is about control some ppl are fooled by it! The carbon level has been the same since late 60’s.. it’s 0.04 without carbon you won’t have plants!
Is this one of the biggest real-life examples of, “Biting the hand that feeds you?” Or is it an example of, “Cutting off your nose to spite your face?” Or it a situation of, “How fast can we automate more and eliminate as many humans from the process as possible?”
Hilarious, the workers can't even afford what they're making. WTF does that tell you. Damn, people like you are Illiterates on what is going on in the country.
And he sits at home watching football while the membership is out in the cold and rain doing circles, and gets his $200000 salary. Wake up people or it's under the bus you go once again.
yep! greedy union ceo gets a commission of everyones check so more union employees and more they make the more the union corporation and ceo makes. just like any other corporation
My company is going to be laying off workers soon due to this. None of us have a say in this fight or benefit in any way. So what do we do if we do not like being along for the ride? We find new jobs to get out of this industry so that it's ripple affect isn't felt as much. it's time for me to move my family from Michigan and for me to manage projects for a company that is not auto related.
I'm not convinced the UAW will ever accept an offer. I could see this being one of those strikes where the union remains on strike long after the company shuts down. Hoping a new owner picks up the contract.
UAW hasn't been keeping score. Their numbers have been decimated the last couple of decades and will only continue to get smaller. Won't be much longer when it will be 'Remember when we made refrigerators, tvs, and CARS here'?
A 40% pay raised and getting paid for five days of work when you were only working four days is insanity. He is over playing his hand he’s totally out of line and eventually all they’re gonna do is replace more human jobs with robots as they should if they try to hold these companies hostage pretty soon the standard pick up truck will retail for 100 K this is insanity.
Shawn Fain - who was elected to lead UAW in March and has been a firebrand proponent of autoworkers - has at least two significant streams of revenue, the filings showed, earning $187,259 a year leading a UAW non-profit training program and another $160,130 per year in his previous role of administrative assistant at the union. Fain's UAW salary likely jumped well above $200,000 per year upon taking over as the union's president earlier this year. Compare that to a UAW auto plant worker. How much does he give up during the strike?
yeah, he is the president. everything, everyone is voted. he is out on the picket line. he works there too. he has to travel all over doing negotiations.
Middle-class people can't afford anything the big three produces. Strike forever, I will never be able to buy your products no matter how this ends. Good luck. I just hope my old Honda Fit can run another 10 years. I don't blame the workers for the insane prices but that's where we are. Millions are in the same place I am.
Wow, you do know that a large portion of the price of these vehicle is to cover the wage and all the benefits these UAW members get right? RIGHT? The higher the UAW members wages get and the more benefits they get the higher the manufacture has to raise their prices to cover their costs.
It's just what they did to property, scalp all the property in this country reducing the quantity on the market, increasing it's value beyond a working wage.
@@mustangecoboosthpp3869 bro you can’t be serious. Workers account for 3%-5% of the price of a vehicle. Paying an autoworker will not increase the price of vehicles at all. Toyota is non union and pay their workers considerably less and a Tundra is just as expensive as a union made Ram 1500. So stop it with the fake news.
@mustangecoboosthpp3869 WOW! You do know your information is WRONG, RIGHT!? So since you're stating this as a fact you think you know, that just tells me that you have no idea what this strike is even really about. Wages and benefits for the employees is 5% of their cost of business. Its a statistical fact that you should look up. And while you're at it you should maybe look up the other issues that you clearly have no idea of
@sundancer3700 you're right. Sad part is they don't necessarily have to bail out on America, just the UAW. The Asian and European auto plants in the U.S. are non union and more than competitive with American automakers.
I was a union man for a long time. I was a union steward for the USPS for a few years but the way unions operate just frustrated me to no end. I had to go to the mat for people who should’ve been fired because the unions position was nobody gets fired. They always endorsed the democratic part nominee no matter how terrible, and stupid, they were. Crooked Hillary was the last straw. Unions are crooked and never gave a hoot about the workers.
My brother said the same thing with his union. He said the union never did anything for the workers and when you brought issues up, they looked at you like you were bothering them. He was asked to go on strike and risk his job for workers who were so damn lazy, always on the phone and barely did any work. He stopped paying his dues and got himself out of the union and they called him a traitor. He still works there but just not in the union.
Happen to know some of the ins and outs of the situation can tell you the moment they walked out on strike is the moment they condemned themselves The big three were already trying to find a way to “trim the fat”
Yeah the ripple affect sucks. I got laid off until further notice 😠 today. At some point. Ya gotta wonder what about those of us who didn't have uaw covering our backs. We will just lose our jobs ..... at this point it is hurting us more than helping.
Not getting you in the Union means you have taken the step towards the company store and 60 hour work weeks. You get a paycheck but they deducted the living expenses you got on credit from the company store. They called it feudalism in the Dark Ages.
Sorry you lost your job to these entitled unskilled mob action a$$holes... Can't wait for inflation to kick them in the dick because of this and others doing the same thing...
At least the striking UAW workers get $500 a week to support themselves. Most regular people are lucky to get $500 a week at their jobs. Just shows the difference in how much they are making and then asking for more compared to the normal person who can’t make enough to buy the vehicle that the UAW is making because the price will be adjusted for all of these added benefits the UAW is asking for.
The offers that companies have on the table are amazing. Most Americans would LOVE that kind of raise! Fain is simply trying to make a point now because he doesn’t like corporate America. Do I think CEOs need the bloated salaries? No, but the UAW has most of what they want. Don’t screw over thousands of workers because you want more. Shawn Fain knows a 32 hour work week isn’t viable, he knows pensions can’t be brought back. He seems like an intelligent person that now just has a vendetta against corporations that provide jobs for hundreds of thousands of people.
This. He doesn't care about the lowly members anyway. He's just trying to become richer himself. If he can get the members more, he can then tax them even more and his wealth will rise...
We all agree with u, the workers are greedy fat cats that just want more. The CEO's on the other hand worked hard for that 40 percent wage increase. The strike needs to stop
These poor auto workers already make as much as people with college degrees and real skills. Let them work at McDonalds and see how they like it, they would probably need some extra training to do the work properly.
The best thing Ford can do is shut all of the plants down and send the union workers home. Fain will then have to pay everyone $500 and those funds will dry up quick forcing him to negotiate. This creates an even playing field with both sides having a vested interest in coming to an equitable (for both sides) agreement.
also, as a benefit, dealers will have time to sell the overstock of trucks nobody wants or can afford. epa needs to be shut down and quit telling makers what kind of vehicles they have to buy.
They can’t if they are signatory to the union. At least not immediately. It would take some time. that’s why there are union contracts. So your employer just can’t throw you away because he thinks he’s overpaying you.
The only thing that the UAW and the strikers are accomplishing are there own lay offs. Once an agreement is reached Ford and the other legacy auto makers will just invest more into automation which will eliminate these workers jobs.
@@CombatSport777 Just off the top of my head, I can think of at least 8 Big Three auto plants within a 100 mile radius of where I live that have closed and moved overseas during the past 35 years. It's pretty clear to me that the workers are pricing themselves out of a job. The union keeps talking about corporate greed. I think there is greed on both sides of the bargaining table.
Workers at this point are not concerned about holidays until they get what’s owed to them! It’s a sacrifice they are willing to make & I respect them for that
@@timothyhunt5721nothings owed to them, they should be lucky to have a job. Now they will all get replaced by automation and moving plants outside USA.
I used to pickup containers at KTP to chicago and back to louisville!! Im sure you got plenty of other people that would take that 20+ an hour job for you! Problem is nobody wants to work now and when they do they want unrealistic pay for a simple job
The people at the top(ceo,coo,cfo etc.) are stewards of the company. They didn't start these companies, they didn't take a big gamble with their own money, they have nothing at risk even if they fail. If they are replaced, they get a severence package worth 20 times their salary for doing a horrible job. Remember Home Depots Robert Nardelli? It's all a wall street, ivy league club they belong to. Elon Musk is the only guy in the auto industry who deserves his wealth in my opinion. This whole system needs a reset. The people making the product deserve their fair share. Not just in the auto world, but every sector. When america sold out, or was bought out by the walmarts, the home depots, the walgreens and cvs, the krogers and such 20+ years ago, i don't think anybody realized what they were setting this country up for. Total control of every facet of our goods and services is owned by huge corporations who are just assaulting us with savage markups in prices since covid. Time to stand up to them all and quit buying overpriced products for a few quarters, see how their stock prices react.
They are INHERITORS not CREATORS they've merely steered the ship that any reasonably competent person could do. Greedily clenching to all their money because they know damn well it's the only thing they're good at!
This is the worst possible time for the UAW to be doing this because there's already a vehicle shortage. Makers like Honda and Toyota don't have access to the chips and parts that they need and smaller makers like Mazda aren't going to be able to make up for the volume. That basically leaves the germans, who are struggling because of the war in Ukraine and then the koreans, who obviously can't Supply the entire world with vehicles. Add to that the fact that the public is already fed up with being unable to get parts and vehicles and this is just spelling a public relations disaster for the uaw. I don't think this is going to end well for them.
I just drove back from Florida and was very surprised on how many brand new Kia's where on the road. Some of the Kia's where as big as suburbans. Most of the Kia's where being driven by young people ! Brand loyalty last a very long time. I have to say the Kia's has the styling and look nailed. All the older men on my street own 4 door pickups and to a person they say most likely it's their last one. I think the big US truck makers of half ton trucks are in for a shock! It appears to me all the young people starting out and making some coin are buying small good looking economical cars. The one's that are moving up fast and making big coin are buying Teslas and BMW's. The big three days are numbered. just my opinion.
@@Bigfoot2025 Most people can't spend $80 to $150 for a F350 or similar truck. And that is sold at the dealer prices not some made up suggested retail price that always gets pushed around. This is also pre UAW strike. Can you imagine what the strike is going to do to vehicle prices. Who the heck can go out and spend $100k+ on a new vehicle. So of course people are going to be pushed into Kia's and the like because they are still affordable to the average working middle to low end class.
Guess who out numbers the UAW, all the people involved in "Making the parts" and "Shipping the parts" to the assembly plants. All those people and their families get devastated by this strike. This strike hurts millions of innocent people. Shame on the UAW! Find another way to get your point across!
Want to know how much the parts those people are marked up to the dealer cost? Back in my days working the parts counter for a motorcycle shop, our cost was 33% of the cost you would pay. The company we got them from had the same markup. I doubt it has changed much judging from the infomercial auto repair insurance on the TV.
Once upon a time at a far off company a strike was formed. The math was done and it was discovered that no rank and file worker would ever re-coup the money lost while on strike. Well then, who does? All the higher echelon of the union from shop stewards up. Striking is the only power a union has over a company.
My wifes Ford Explorer has been in the shop mulitiple times. Still has an electrical issue where it randomly won't start which they can't figure out. American vehicles are not worth the prices their asking and yet the workers want more money to build substandard vehicles. You want more money, then do a better job.
I remember all the GOOD jobs at G.E. in upstate NY for over 40 years and the families that were supported by those jobs, the markets and ancillary services that thrived as a result of EVERYONE having a GOOD job and benefits. Then the Unions and their members decided it was time to flip it all on it's head. Now no one has jobs and the nearby communities are filled with welfare recipients and single parent houses (can't call them homes) and all the mom & pop shops lost the ability to remain open and serving their local families, so those building are abandoned. Gas stations, convenient stores, and local restaurants are closed/gone too. I know what brought this change to our region and it was not "corporate greed" - it was Unions. G.E. is just one example. Unions are destroying jobs and communities for their LEFTIST masters and you're all taking part in it, like good little lemmings. So don't complain when you don't make your regular income while not working. Some day, a few of you will grow up and realize that YOU don't give anyone anything for nothing.....and you should not expect others to give you EVERYTHING you want for nothing. It's called give & take and the sooner you grow up, the sooner you all start working together with all of us and get this thing back on the tracks so WE ALL WIN.
Better Pensions are not good for the UAW, because if Ford goes into Bankruptcy court, then the Pensions are lost. I know this after working in the Steel Mill for 30 years. My father took an early retirement. LTV Steel went bankrupt. My father lost his pension, and for went into a Federal Pension Insurance Fund. This gave him a fraction of his Pension.
Most of us don’t have pensions bc of the recession. During that time the UAW HELPED the big 3 by giving it away and the companies said “we will give it back when we’re back on our feet” they have been back on their feet the last 10+ years
What about taking your finances into your own hands. I did it on my own with no guaranteed pension. I lived within my means and saved for the future. @@Kalinbuggs
@@Kalinbuggs Being an ex Steel worker, I feel your pain. You are going through what Steel Workers went through in the 70's. As I see it, your best option is when they close a plant get the plant, and equipment to produce car. EV's are a bust. So let them go on the dream to produce EV's. When they close the plant, get the plant and equipment to produce cars. Then create a Workers owned Company. Went GM & Ford dump the Union, there next step will go bankrupt. My father worked for LTV Steel. He worked in the Steel Mill for 30 years. He got an early retirement. Soon after LTV went bankrupt and his pension was grabbed by the bankruptcy court. This is why a severance package is worthless. After the Steel Mills shutdown, 200,000 people left Pittsburgh. (That is why you see so many Steelers fans at Steelers away games) So if you think, you can work at another company in your area, it not going to happen. Because those little companies are depend on the Big 3. You know going EV's is a stupid move. So I think taking over the plant is a good idea. Except don't produce the plastic, gadget filled car. Go the route of the old VW. The VW came to America in the 50's, it was basically a 30's car with few upgrades. It sold very well, because people needed a cheap, easy to maintain car. Today cars are too expensive. Middle class people need a cheap 2nd car. Young people need a cheap car also. So if you can get a Worker owned Car Company, then you will become one of the largest car manufacturers. While GM & FORD will go bankrupt making EV's or over priced gadget cars
I doubt you have ever worked on a shop floor never mind doing skilled labor there. It takes longer than a few days to train someone on the assembly line. Try walking in their shoes for one day, I dare you.
@@bikerkat01 HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!’ You’re doubt is wrong! I have never worked on a floor either. I rebuild equipment that turns 30+ thousand rpm just a few thousandths of an inch from a cover. Nothing you can say is anything but pathetic. This is the retort that people like you get when you assume and imply that you know anything about someone you’re only guessing about. Nothing that you do is not planned by an engineer and scripted by management. And performed by zero gravity pr low impact equipment.
@@reubenmorris487 For most companies they can manipulate their stock, which makes investors money if they choose to sell. For ford that’s not the case their stock hasn’t reached over $15 in my entire adult life.
That is what bureaucracy does, buy their own stock in lieu of increasing production by improving facilities. Just an artificial inflation of value that should be criminal. What do they do with the profit? give it to just a few at the top- tens of millions of dollars. Billions in profit, where did it go?
Has anyone watched these guys “build cars”? They guide parts like instrument panels and seats into cars with machines that do all the work. All they do is plug things in (not always) and install and tighten bolts (sometimes but not always). This is no longer a skilled labor. Almost anyone that can tune a screwdriver can do it!
@@Cityboifresh LOL. I fix their fuckups daily at the dealer for 8 hours. Pulling dashes, engines and transmissions after they’ve been installed. Would Love to see these guys do that kind of work for 8 hours a day!
@@dodgeguyz they do you fucking moron lmao how you think the shit got in there.🤣🤣🤣🤣 be careful dissin UAW dealer mechanic, a guy was fired for his “fuck UAW” comment . You’re probably just the oil change guy in real life.Just stfu please you’re embarrassing yourself at this point.
Yes, every station has fixtures, guides, lifts, etc to make assembly as quick, easy and fool proof as possible. The automakers spend a huge amount of money on those work aids.
6% pay raise over the last 4 years (1.5% per year). Loss of pensions for new workers in 2007. Meanwhile 40% raise for executives over the same 4 years. $5 BILLION spent on stock buybacks to drive up executive stock bonuses. $21 billion profit this year, $ 250 billion over the last ten years. The production workers made all that profit and executives got the reward. That is how it is "not fair".
@@toddtheisen8386 Boo-hoo-hoo. Most people would love to have gotten a 6% pay raise over the last four years. How much the bosses make is none of the workers' business. 🙄
Ford offered the UAW a sweetheart deal, and they walked away? The UAW has lost its way. Greedy in a time while most Americans don't make anything near what auto workers do.
These people make way more money than the average person, and they want more money? This crap is just like politicians, giving themselves raises every year 🤦🏻♂️🙄
I have a bad taste in my mouth for unions. 20 years worth. But i also don’t like what’s going on with this. I feel that today there is just way to many lazy union employees who want everything for nothing ! Not saying every facility is that way either. Or maybe i just feel this way because of getting poor representation. Maybe ufcw 🤮
If a company is making billions and every year they keep increasing investor dividends to keep investors then the money is there. They’re more worried about keeping investors more than workers. Unions help regardless of if you like them or not. America is gonna be jobless in 40 years because of automation
If it were truly about the economy then top heavy management would allllll take pay cuts and pause raises. Instead they make their own raises and leave the workers stagnant. Blame the stock holder culture in America not the workers
@@Kalinbuggs people who think unions ruin everything annoys the shit out of me. I work for the railroad and the government fucked us over. Forcing a contract down our throats. people are happy about making it easier for a company to make billions and claim workers are selfish and then turn around and bitch about billion dollar companies. Imbeciles. Crazy world we’re in
@@NoVaRedactedPlus illegals and refugees ie Burma etc . I had over 15 years at a Kroger non union warehouse and lost my job because of the illegals and my other friends as well . They wasn't happy paying me 16 bucks an hour which took me all of them years to make . The other side of the warehouse went all automated with a machine called WITRON . The worker can't win with a union or not . Even white collar jobs are being replaced with AI . I was talking with a AI person the other day on the phone thinking it was a real person until it told me it didn't understand what I wanted and told me to stay on the line for a real person .
95% OF UAW JOBS CAN BE REPLACED BY PEOPLE WITH 1-2 WEEKS OF TRAINING. These are not skilled positions. These people are lucky they still have good paying jobs doing such low skill work. Hopefully, the big 3 invest in automation and rid themselves completely of this ridiculous union and the problems they cause.
@@MUCKFOOT399 Union contract stipulations mostly. Plus, the big 3 are not exactly run efficiently. They are definitely using more robotics these days however.
@@mikenimmick3920 they should make it all temp service workers. all minimum wage no benefits make single bedroom apartments can fire and replace them any reason
Shawn needs to be fired! This is absolutely ridiculous! These people are already making well over $100,000 plus one hell of a benefits package! Apparently they want no job instead of a really good job!🤬
Who makes 100k? Nobody does working 40 hours. Maybe 70 hours 52 weeks a year 🥱 Redo your math $32 current cap x 40 hours x 52 weeks $66k. So after taxes, 401k, if you have other deductions like child support you’re making even less. My CS is $8800 a year. So after taxes a 66k income is $50k. If you do 8% 401k for the year that’s another $5k or more off. So now you’re at $45k. After CS $37k. Learn something instead of blabbing. Now you have to live off $37k for 12 months which is $3k. say a mortgage is 1000-1500. Do the math dummy 🥱
It’s hard for many people to understand why these people would purposely do something to harm the company that provided a job for them. And it’s hard many people to understand how a company could every trust those people again, enough to allow them back through their doors.
I bet your ass ain't never worked for Kentucky Truck! It's always the people who have never worked inside a plant who want to blame the workers. Bet you don't know about the work conditions. Do you know why Ford never had to ask for a bail out? That's because the workers decided to take the hit for the company. And we still haven't received what was promised to us. When a worker can die on Ford property, and Ford lies and says that the person died on the way to the hospital to avoid a major lawsuit and media coverage, that says a he'll of a lot about a company. This was confirmed to me by a Morgan & Morgan lawyer a year ago. There's a lot of shit that goes on inside those Ford plants you all don't have a clue about. But you damn sure don't mind driving the vehicles that are made from literal blood, sweat, and tears! Bet you sit behind some nice cushy desk. The hardest work most people want is keeping from having a damn paper - cut at the end of the day! To each his own. But don't dare open your mouth against Ford employees! Or any UAW member for that matter! Ford doesn't even allow the police to come anywhere near KTP. IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW MANY ACCIDENTS HAPPEN IN FRONT OF THE PLANT. WHEN YOU CAN TELL THE COMMISSIONER THAT TICKETING HIS EMPLOYEES COMING INTO WORK FOR WHAT EVER REASON IS CUTTING IN TO HIS "LINE- TIME" IN THE PLANT AND YOU NO LONGER SEE POLICE NEAR THE PLANT.....THATS A LOT OF FREAK'N PULL! IT'S LIKE IT'S OWN LITTLE CITY AROUND THERE, AND NO ONE INTERFERES! KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT AND TRY TO GIVE TWO SHITS ABOUT THE WORKERS BEFORE OPENING YOUR MOUTH! BETTER YET, TAKE YOUR ASS INSIDE OF KTP AND WORK A YEAR OR TWO UNTIL YOU START NEEDING SURGERY ON YOUE SHOULDERS, KNEES OR BACK! APPRECIATE A COMPANY FOR GIVING THEM A JOB......SOME FUCK'N NERVE MAN!
It's not intentional harm. Striking is about increasing the scarcity of labor in the immediate market. Labor IS the company. No labor, no company. It is a critical resource that a company cannot do without. If an oil company's wells dry up they have to spend more money to move, find and drill etc. What happens if the oil company cannot afford the higher price of doing business? Labor is just another resource, an input. It is the most important one. You think Ford didn't know this strike was coming a year ago? They have had plenty of time to solve this problem. Blaming labor for their concerns like they are, is like the oil company blaming oil because it dried up where they were located.
Ford made $25 billion last year? How much did they give away to shareholders? How much in bone us money? And the folks doing the work got? SCREWED AGAIN. Morons like you that think poor people don't deserve a fair share of the pie they help make need to be shipped of to an iceberge at the North Pole.
The government has made it so they can't keep the unions out. If they want to keep the unions out they are going to have to move production to another country. That is why Ford built their massive plant with supplier integration in Brazil and not the US. They wanted to build it in the US but the UAW said no to the supplier integration and several other things Ford wanted in the new plant. So they built it in Brazil. Was the largest Ford plant at the time, still may be.
I bought a 1999 F150 it was 9yr old; with a 8'ft bed with fiberglass Cap... Two wheel drive, 4.6 V8 with 73,000 miles on it when I bought it. I've had it for 15yrs it has 218,000 miles on it now. When I bought it, cost $5,900. There selling 10yr old trucks for $10,000 or more. New Trucks forget it! I'm convinced this is my last pick-up-truck. The BIG 3 are out of touch!
it's the epa outlawing small trucks. also, the gen z-x ??? can't have manual transmissions, manual windows, no ac, ps,cruise, cheap radio, alarms, buzzers, keyless,-all junk and $$$ and problems. Can't buy a new vehicle without that crap
It seems like the UAW is doing the auto manufacturers a favor by pulling their workers off when they're not needed anyway. I think they're working together
First off, a simple google search "why are car prices so high" will tell you that it's because of the global health crisis that has affected supply chains dramatically. I don't expect you to know this because you haven't worked ten years in an automotive assembly plant like I have. There has been MANY days called off because we simply did not have enough parts. For every delay, every part shortage, they try to compensate by raising prices. We have NOT striked them like this or asked for more for a DECADE. You are no different than the CEOs. We make up a small fraction of the total cost of manufacturing. We literally have to fight for more because there is ZERO incentive for the companies to pay their workers a fair wage. Their bottom line is profits, not people. That's why unions are fundamental in a capitalist society, because, at their best, the bottom line of unions are PEOPLE not profits. It's a simple balancing act. Furthermore, taylorsutherland6973, we are currently bargaining with the current prices on vehicles, so blame the company if they raise prices. I only ask that you go forward not commenting from emotion, but to seek the logic and knowledge behind everything and not to make second hand passing remarks on the lives of close to 500,000 tax paying, hard working, Americans. Whom I am proud to call brother and sister.
Labor to build a vehicle is 5% or less. Vehicle prices went up 30% over the last few years and pay has went up 6% over the last 13 years....are you serious? Vehicles are expensive because they want to maximize profits period.
How much will the price of a vehicle increase if you move to 32 hour weeks and get a 40% pay raise will have to figure that into the price I guess? Doesn't matter to me I'll never buy that overpriced junk again.
Cars and trucks are made with cheaper materials and foreign labor, they are more expensive than ever CEO'S make more money than ever these companies are bailed out with our tax dollars & people still don't get it ?
I can’t believe all the comments against American workers. The ceo of gm sat on tv & admitting making $29m last year. But the workers can’t get a better wage? Greed is ruining this country. Enough!
I have to agree. If you can RANDOMLY give yourself a 40% raise, you can give your employees a 40% raise as well. These ceos aren't struggling to keep food on the table or a roof over their heads, it's a shame how out of touch they are.
The reality is pensions are not going to come back pensions are too damn expensive. That’s why they have 401(k)s for a reason. People who’s been working not just at Ford but other places before they got rid of pension are the only people they’re only gonna have a pension
@@balor7 That depends how do you spend your money and how much you save your money how much do you invest your money and even if you do retire will see you retire with her for a 1K you’re good for I. don’t know some of years but you can work on the side. There’s nothing wrong with that to make a little extra cash here and there.
Every government employee has a pension. Pro-rated at 100% of their wages! That goes for elected officials, too. They only need around 12 years to be vested. When union workers need 30 years for a 65% return. Way better than a 401K, though!
The Big Three need to fire all of these people drop your Union contract and hire non-union workers not only will the price of production drop the price of vehicles will also drop.
Your an idiot. Unions are great for the working man. Prices wouldn’t go down because your employees aren’t union. The owners of ford don’t give a shit about me, you, or our neighbors. Prices will continue to rise on vehicles no matter what.
No one told Ford to get involved in a Chinese joint venture for the Battery supply plants...Nor did they twist Ford's arm into accepting large amounts of Tax Payer money for the Battery Plant investments... I mean, after much negotiation, GM has no such issue with UAW Representation for their present and future Battery Plants..
I believe the UAW needs to have a talk with the dealerships. Seeing how they've marked up vehicle's so high and no one can afford them. I guess they'll all be out of jobs soon.
I think its kind of funny that everyone is talking about how expensive everything is. The reason everything keeps going up is that the companies employees hold the companies hostage for higher wages then the companies jack the prices up. Its a vicious cycle and will have to stop somewhere. Probably like the 80's when nobody could find a job because everything got shipped to Mexico and overseas. Luckily im out of the labor force now and i can just sit back and watch everybody grovel for their pennies. Which wont matter because whatever they want will just keep going up. Have fun with your $150,000 truck!
Ignorant. A simple google search would show you "The global health crisis and supply chain problems caused a shortage of new cars, which led to limited supply and record-breaking prices."
Funny how you bring up the Mexico built vehicles....have you ever checked the prices on those $100 per week employees? Did you save money from buying one of those vehicles??? Nope! They raised those prices up 30 percent too. Learn what you are talking about before you utter ignorant verbal diarrhea.
Several reasons for high vehicle cost: 1) Mandated gov't EPA regulations requiring expensive hardware to comply. 2) Overload of useless gadgetry on vehicles, i.e. cheap you don't need, by consumers gobble it up. 3) Inflation due to excessive govt spending For those who are complaining about how little they make, what holds you from leaving to a better job of its so bad? A: Its still the best game in town for an unskilled, uneducated person. While the pay increases have been marginal, UAW still pays no medical monthly insurance co-pay, and year over year that's a big increase.
Get your facts straight! These kids are working for $16 an hour. Union hater? Fine. Your business. But don't talk about what you don't know about. YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM IN THIS COUNTRY !
I hope the UAW does to the American auto industry what the unions did to Hostess. Then the world will see for themselves the fruits of opening yourself up to a union. Unions literally resent the company they force the company to use. It’s a sick and disgusting situation. Think about it for a minute. These guys literally believe that companies are taking advantage of them. Yet instead of just moving on to greener pastures and letting the free market decide, they force the companies to hire only them and the employees can therefore only keep working for the union. Unions literally remove competition and fight the free market
And the free market is nothing but a battle to the bottom. The lowest bid. Unions built this country, I find it odd you think that if someone is getting paid at union pay scale you think that’s the problem? The problem is corporate greed. The millions, and billions of dollars a handful of people make at the top. The problem is what they’re asking for in this particular strike is downright ridiculous. 40% pay increase? Complete nonsense. A four day work week on top of that pay, again, complete nonsense. Being in a union myself, it boggles my mind that the workers would actually agree, or even think they could pull something like this off. They’re already making what, $90,000 a year? Now they want a $40,000 a year raise and work 32 hours less a month. This will never happen. And people, thousands of people will lose their job, and be replaced by automation, whoever is running this union should be removed.
@@Maynardd unions did not build this country. The entrepreneurs whom the union members like to vilify, along with people who wanted the safety of working the someone else built this country. Everyone helped build this country. The unions are like parasites who hate their hosts … without the people who actually put skin in the game (entrepreneurs) and risked everything, the unions would have no one to work for and therefore no one to vilify except their neighbors who hustled and made a like for themselves…
@@Maynardd the unions care nothing about the companies they work for and we can all see it in their workmanship. They have no pride in their work. They are too busy being victims to the corporations and envying them to actually have pride in the work they do. The mentality is “unless you pay me what I think I’m worth, then I’m not going to put 100% in”. You can see now where unions have gotten us. There are zero successful corporations which hire unions left.
unions are the reason we have 40 hour work weeks, health insurance and weekends. it will be a very quick backsliding if there isn't anyone looking after the rights of the workers.
@@bobloblaw9679 they’re also the reason for massive off shoring, automation accelerating, and slow wage growth. The benefits come out of something nothing is free.
I hope they fire everyone that is on strike, they make so much money and benefits, that's why vehicles are priced so high. Just fire them all and go non union.
This strike is going to cost ALL US autoworkers their job. It's really a stupid move on their part, especially right now when the pricing of vehicles has made them unaffordable to the majority of potential customers. And the pay the autoworkers receive from the last contract still allows them to live in luxury compared to the average American. There's no reason to strike. Just because a certain percentage of Ford revenue comes from Louisville doesn't mean the products can't be built in another country. The union is being absolutely foolish. American auto companies must respond to market conditions, and they would be very correct to close all US plants down now, sell the land for cash, and build plants in other countries.
If that's what we have to do to take the message of end corporate greed then that's what needs to be done!! We don't find for just us...but for the middle class. Most of us are tired of letting the rich take advantage of us.
@@jasonharvey8896 You don't deserve the companies profits, you only do a very small job you don't run the company. You take zero out of pocket risks, you have clearly never own a business.
@@mustangecoboosthpp3869 Exactly, Anyone working for someone else is being compensated for their work in the form of a paycheck. They are not entitled to a profit sharing check.
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Bad time to strike when your product is already unaffordable.
Exactly...this isn't the economy to strike ..they don't have an upper hand
That's on ford not the employees
@@trejohnson8014It’s on the employees if Ford goes bankrupt or decides to move production to Mexico isn’t it?
I agree in a economy that's already bad at this time, they're striking which Harms the auto companies and everybody else around it.
@@Texas2Step79 lol are you crazy the U.S. economy is so strong the feds have been raising rates every chance they get to slow it down!
I already lost my job to this strike. I hauled parts to KTP and Chicago Assembly. My employer closed our terminal.If and when this settles good luck getting parts and getting them delivered.
Aww to bad, sorry about the uaw being greedy asses once again....
@@johnt6673so you think it’s ok for the company to post 20 billion in profits and not pay the employees? Seems like your an idiot to me
Where we ever find a driver with a chauffeur license or CDL B... Oh right everywhere
These mofos are affecting my job also I hope the big 3 can get rid of this union BS they make already 30 per hr to put a tire on a truck
likely then your subcontractor boss was already on the chopping block
Why doesn’t the UAW call on their members to vote for politicians that don’t make poor decisions that cause inflation?
Or ones who don't support greedy ass companies that cause artificial inflation with price gouging.
Exactly. They have control of the unions just like the minorities. These people better wake up
Exactly
Meanwhile in reality, inflation is GLOBAL and ours is the lowest of any comparable country.
@@ranma36keep believing that, illegal immigrants are everywhere in the world,wake up
30yrs of dues toUSW was a waste of money,union officials are the only ones that benefit😢
If you stayed 30yrs, it must not of been that bad !!!!
So you don’t have a full pension, amazing health insurance?
No the usw fqked me out of 2yrs pension
12 yrs pension
The only thing the UAW helps is the UAW
Decades ago unions were necessary to combat unfair labor practices. Today , all they do is drive the cost of their product through the roof with REDICULOUS monetary and benefit demands. I hope they strike themselves right out of a job! They endorsed this president which coincidentally is THE reason for their struggles to "make ends meet" because of his inflationary policies!
I'm taking a guess you've never worked in an auto plant?
Probably not just one of those idiots that knows how to run his big mouth
I totally agree!
I'm taking a guess that you voted for Biden and you still don't see the correlation between this strike and Biden policies. @@BloodySoup74
If you were right then why are cars made in Mexico not discounted? You sound stupid
Can't afford a Ford truck now anyways, base model starts at ~$32,000 and modestly outfitted runs closer to ~$40,000. About to price themselves out of the market.
Thanks Joe.....FJB
Absolutely. Grocery bill jumped (4 people) from ~180 every 2 weeks to ~300.
A new 24 is about 38k for a base model
The UAW is about to drive that cost up a few thousand dollars per vehicle with their unreasonable demands. I will never buy a UAW manufactured vehicle again in my life, I will boycott the UAW.
Toyota non union
If they dont want there good jobs at Ford, plenty of other people would be happy to work them.
Lmao it's a revolving door bring in 20 temps buy the end of the week 2 left at my plant!
No one wants to work anymore
@@robertwoodward4525 especiAlly the uaw ?
@@indianapublicland7429 this is everywhere. The recent generations have been raised toward technology and automation. But industry hasn't caught up yet. So when they see a manual assembly line they are horrified. It'll change as industry catches up
Very true
unskilled labor does not deserve the higher pay that they already have.... vehicle prices are way too high as it is
yes,...it's true.
I'm not sure how much unskilled labor is in an auto manufacturing plant. There are a lot of sysyems and subsystems in every car that take a certain amount of skill and experience to assemble correctly (some more than others). This is to say nothing of the people that maintain the infrastructure of the plant itself.
If it were unskilled labor then you’d be able to build a brand new car in your own garage in a week
@@NoVaRedacted 😂
Meanwhile the highest paid of all are the CEO'S and no one has a clue what they actually do..
Meanwhile, engineers and management are looking at further automation in auto manufacturing.
Good for them. They will prii on babky automate it in China or Mexico , I would if I were them. The democrats and unions have went full out commie at this point
Since day one they have so that's no surprise
@@kristopherhilton8065right, but whiney, under skilled, over paid, under worked, over protected, over benefited "workers" are just fanning the flames.
@@NonTypicalRacing le time ask you a simple question. If there was an affordable robot that could do your job would your employer replace you. Don't give me B's about skilled either I'm an electrician I install the robots, cncs, cameras, ECT that take the place of workers trust me it's a no brainier humans are the weakness we need breaks, we need to be taught, we fuck up. They are always looking to automate for higher profit margins
@@NonTypicalRacing in fact I'm currently installing 6 robots that replace over 29 jobs at a cost of 40k a robot
When the UAW union finally breaks the car companies, I wonder how the workers will like having NO JOB ??
Companies broke themselves.
The taxpayer will end up being on the hook to bail these companies and the unions out.
There will be other jobs. The consumers will just take care of Fords greed as usual.
Companies giving their CEOs enough bonus money to double each employees salary yet you want to place blame on the workers that gave up so many benefits to make sure these companies could stay afloat during the US recession. They broke themselves.
Forget the union and hire individuals who are happy to work. A 40% raise demand is ridiculous for any business.🇺🇸
Yes it is, especially with the economy already bad this is going to harmit even more because when the Auto plants go down everything else collapses around it
@@constancefinley4556 u.a.w. isnt that big a part of the market. 40% of u.s. auto. Compared to covid shutdown its nothing
Totally agree
Railroads got a 24% raise after they pocketed billions. Soooo what’s your point.
Fuckin a
Fire them! Fire them all!!!! Replace them with non-union workers who just be happy to have a job!
Why? Around 2008 ford cried to them saying can we just temporarily stop the inflation pay increase in order to save the company, they worked agreed to stop it temporarily and to later have it back. The company never did put it back company was making profit and never made a pay increase or changes. You really shouldn’t support billion dollar companies, remember you’re just a number.
If they don’t want to work,on the wages they’re getting walk away and let someone that wants to work without whining about it!!!
For real
Problem is, they know they cant earn what they do now somewhere else.
@@Ulfstigandr yup get back to work dumb asses
How much do you make an hour?
@@davidjones7544 23 50
These people are spoiled and just because they can't afford all their toys doesn't mean they should demand more money?? Live within your means.
yes, $32 Hour. I would not complain. Very hard to recover that.
So should the ceos who the hell deserves $29m?
@@shaymalchione809Running a global company is far and away more important then bolting on fenders. Most assembly jobs can be done with minimal training time and virtually no education. Stop crying and go work your shift son.
@@LayzeeGiant You can’t justify someone giving themselves $29m while paying their workers crap no matter how hard you try. Check your bank account & see which side you stand with. I stand with American workers against corporate greed.
@@shaymalchione809CEOs don’t pay themselves, the board of directors and shareholders decide their pay. And all this Rah Rah patriotic BS just leads to jobs being sent to Mexico or China. Wake up and realize there is no loyalty from employers OR employees in this country. I own my own business and employ a crew of 6. I pay them current wages for the work I need done. If it’s not enough, they can go elsewhere. But they stay because it’s good pay and steady work. Unions are bullshit organizations that have made workers lazy and overpaid all the while causing manufacturing jobs to be shipped abroad or automated. There’s plenty of people to fill those striking worker jobs that would be happy for a paycheck. Spewing rhetoric and walking in circles waving signs has never benefitted anyone.
I always thought there was something wrong with an assembly line worker earning more than an engineer.
Or an ICU nurse that takes care of heart bypass patients….
If you worked on some of the stuff these people have "engineered"? It Aint That Big Of A Strech.
@@jdcustom4655 The engineers have to adhere to company efficiency policies that tend to complicate otherwise simple systems and are under infinitely more pressure than the line workers. You couldn't pay me enough to do their job.
@@danstory4286 Absolutely, SO "company policy" is how things have gone the way they have and how things got to be the way they are.
The engineers aren't worth a damn, most of them don't know what a spark plug is or where it goes, and they check on you every 10 minutes to see if you have the trans swapped yet. All the good ones are gone.
What happens to vehicle prices if the UAW gets all its demands met? Higher vehicle prices for sure.
While I was a Union man I can and will say this. They keep pushing this hard and they will be replaced in the very near future with robots. Their jobs are not that difficult and are asking for so much. I did construction and my life was on the line every day. Which is why I got paid because it was dangerous work.
I agree with you 100 percent. I'm a farmer I work 7days a week with no price guarantee of what I sell the way the truck prices are right now I'll probably never buy another new truck and if this strike raises the prices like I've heard they will nobody will buy a truck. as far as I'm concerned just go ahead and get robots to replace them
@@jamesmcclanahan4091 betweek windmills. Solar panels and ethanol i didn't think a broke farmer still existed.
@@itsallminor6133 then you should try farming especially last summer when diesel fuel was over 6 dollars a gallon and fertilizer prices doubled all because of Biden. my diesel fuel cost in 2022 was a little over 38 thousand dollars
@@jamesmcclanahan4091 ukraine war and russian fertilizer exports did some damage i had heard. I didn't know how much or the extent. You are the first farmer I've talked too since. Before it seemed farmers were raking in the cash leasing growing fields for solar panels and ethanol.
So in all seriousness, how are you doing? We talking "not a good year" or "this is seriously bad, negative, can't pay bills " year?
@@itsallminor6133no farmers are not do good! Don’t know where you get your information.. CNN, mnbc… this solar crap is about control some ppl are fooled by it! The carbon level has been the same since late 60’s.. it’s 0.04 without carbon you won’t have plants!
Like vehicle prices are not expensive enough now…lock them out and hire replacements
That has to do with wages dummy. They haven't kept up with inflation since the 1970's. Inflation is a global issue, wages are a local issue.
not dump he's right there are a lot of people living with less@@davidjones7544
Is this one of the biggest real-life examples of, “Biting the hand that feeds you?” Or is it an example of, “Cutting off your nose to spite your face?” Or it a situation of, “How fast can we automate more and eliminate as many humans from the process as possible?”
All of the above !
Hilarious, the workers can't even afford what they're making. WTF does that tell you. Damn, people like you are Illiterates on what is going on in the country.
How fast can jobs move Mexico?
This is an example of rich getting richer and everybody else pays for it period.
@@rogerleonard5351they are moving mexico here
The union president is not living on $500 a week. It’s just a big chess game to him.
And he sits at home watching football while the membership is out in the cold and rain doing circles, and gets his $200000 salary. Wake up people or it's under the bus you go once again.
Yea and not counting the monies Ford Exec paid him to get the UAW go on strike so they could halt production, wonder how much that was?
yep! greedy union ceo gets a commission of everyones check so more union employees and more they make the more the union corporation and ceo makes. just like any other corporation
My company is going to be laying off workers soon due to this. None of us have a say in this fight or benefit in any way. So what do we do if we do not like being along for the ride? We find new jobs to get out of this industry so that it's ripple affect isn't felt as much. it's time for me to move my family from Michigan and for me to manage projects for a company that is not auto related.
do what's best for your first and always
There are many jobs covered by the UAW, cars are a small part
The union is telling us that our being out of work for their strike is for our benefit.
Taking too long
Best of luck, sorry to read this, man. Strike needs to end soon.
If the union gets what they want, expect layoffs soon after.
I'm not convinced the UAW will ever accept an offer. I could see this being one of those strikes where the union remains on strike long after the company shuts down. Hoping a new owner picks up the contract.
good
Hey it is a long winter up north this way they can lay up in the crib, the beer is cold, and their joints are not subject to any wind inside.
lawyers, victims, entitled. that simple. blame the rich white guy or owner/ investor.
UAW hasn't been keeping score. Their numbers have been decimated the last couple of decades and will only continue to get smaller. Won't be much longer when it will be 'Remember when we made refrigerators, tvs, and CARS here'?
or: remember when auto assembly workers owned a winter home in Miami?
A 40% pay raised and getting paid for five days of work when you were only working four days is insanity. He is over playing his hand he’s totally out of line and eventually all they’re gonna do is replace more human jobs with robots as they should if they try to hold these companies hostage pretty soon the standard pick up truck will retail for 100 K this is insanity.
It is called negotiations. The company pays its admin level way too much for no physical work.
Shawn Fain - who was elected to lead UAW in March and has been a firebrand proponent of autoworkers - has at least two significant streams of revenue, the filings showed, earning $187,259 a year leading a UAW non-profit training program and another $160,130 per year in his previous role of administrative assistant at the union. Fain's UAW salary likely jumped well above $200,000 per year upon taking over as the union's president earlier this year. Compare that to a UAW auto plant worker. How much does he give up during the strike?
And he can be voted out at an election unlike CEOs
yeah, he is the president.
everything, everyone is voted.
he is out on the picket line.
he works there too.
he has to travel all over doing negotiations.
trying to single out one person from the union.
Nothing...
Middle-class people can't afford anything the big three produces. Strike forever, I will never be able to buy your products no matter how this ends. Good luck. I just hope my old Honda Fit can run another 10 years. I don't blame the workers for the insane prices but that's where we are. Millions are in the same place I am.
Wow, you do know that a large portion of the price of these vehicle is to cover the wage and all the benefits these UAW members get right? RIGHT? The higher the UAW members wages get and the more benefits they get the higher the manufacture has to raise their prices to cover their costs.
Idk what you're hoping lol if you keep update on maintenance shouldn't be a problem
It's just what they did to property, scalp all the property in this country reducing the quantity on the market, increasing it's value beyond a working wage.
@@mustangecoboosthpp3869 bro you can’t be serious. Workers account for 3%-5% of the price of a vehicle. Paying an autoworker will not increase the price of vehicles at all. Toyota is non union and pay their workers considerably less and a Tundra is just as expensive as a union made Ram 1500. So stop it with the fake news.
@mustangecoboosthpp3869 WOW! You do know your information is WRONG, RIGHT!? So since you're stating this as a fact you think you know, that just tells me that you have no idea what this strike is even really about. Wages and benefits for the employees is 5% of their cost of business. Its a statistical fact that you should look up. And while you're at it you should maybe look up the other issues that you clearly have no idea of
The American auto manufacturers need to tell the UAW to kick rocks.
They will in time as they move everything out of the USA. This is why Tesla stays far away, he told them to FO.
@sundancer3700 you're right. Sad part is they don't necessarily have to bail out on America, just the UAW. The Asian and European auto plants in the U.S. are non union and more than competitive with American automakers.
@@sundancer3700 - 60% of Tesla's vehicles are made in Shanghai
@@michaelanderson3543 - Washington is currently subsidizing union plants
Haters y’all KICK ROCKS 😂
I was a union man for a long time. I was a union steward for the USPS for a few years but the way unions operate just frustrated me to no end. I had to go to the mat for people who should’ve been fired because the unions position was nobody gets fired. They always endorsed the democratic part nominee no matter how terrible, and stupid, they were. Crooked Hillary was the last straw. Unions are crooked and never gave a hoot about the workers.
Crooked Trump would've been so much better.
@@northerniltreeyou don't know what crooked means.
My brother said the same thing with his union. He said the union never did anything for the workers and when you brought issues up, they looked at you like you were bothering them. He was asked to go on strike and risk his job for workers who were so damn lazy, always on the phone and barely did any work. He stopped paying his dues and got himself out of the union and they called him a traitor. He still works there but just not in the union.
Happen to know some of the ins and outs of the situation can tell you the moment they walked out on strike is the moment they condemned themselves
The big three were already trying to find a way to “trim the fat”
Yeah the ripple affect sucks. I got laid off until further notice 😠 today. At some point. Ya gotta wonder what about those of us who didn't have uaw covering our backs. We will just lose our jobs ..... at this point it is hurting us more than helping.
Not getting you in the Union means you have taken the step towards the company store and 60 hour work weeks.
You get a paycheck but they deducted the living expenses you got on credit from the company store.
They called it feudalism in the Dark Ages.
Sorry you lost your job to these entitled unskilled mob action a$$holes... Can't wait for inflation to kick them in the dick because of this and others doing the same thing...
According to the UAW, that is a feature of the strike, not a flaw. They say their strike is to help all of us.
@@rcpcash idiot commie
At least the striking UAW workers get $500 a week to support themselves. Most regular people are lucky to get $500 a week at their jobs. Just shows the difference in how much they are making and then asking for more compared to the normal person who can’t make enough to buy the vehicle that the UAW is making because the price will be adjusted for all of these added benefits the UAW is asking for.
The offers that companies have on the table are amazing. Most Americans would LOVE that kind of raise! Fain is simply trying to make a point now because he doesn’t like corporate America. Do I think CEOs need the bloated salaries? No, but the UAW has most of what they want. Don’t screw over thousands of workers because you want more. Shawn Fain knows a 32 hour work week isn’t viable, he knows pensions can’t be brought back. He seems like an intelligent person that now just has a vendetta against corporations that provide jobs for hundreds of thousands of people.
This. He doesn't care about the lowly members anyway. He's just trying to become richer himself. If he can get the members more, he can then tax them even more and his wealth will rise...
We all agree with u, the workers are greedy fat cats that just want more. The CEO's on the other hand worked hard for that 40 percent wage increase. The strike needs to stop
Well what u think is irrelevant a hole!
“Please sir may I have another?”
Begging for a seat at a table your building? Sorry if some of us actually want to get our fair slice of the pie!
@@ranma36 "fair" changes depending on the individual. There are people that would do your job for less and consider it fair
In solidarity with the automotive companies, do not be bullied by UAW gang members. UAW, unions against work. Union Buster's local 69 🇺🇲
Guess that could go for any union right?
@@vicgeier3482 yes. If you got a corrupt Union, in your neighborhood. Who you gonna call?
@@Michael-fl1tmit was corrupt until Fain, time will tell, the Teamsters had their time too.
Lots of unions out there, some good, some bad
These poor auto workers already make as much as people with college degrees and real skills. Let them work at McDonalds and see how they like it, they would probably need some extra training to do the work properly.
Eh... There is a lot of worthless college degrees with no real skills. Tough argument you make
There’s no education that is worthless.
Then they should be getting paid more lol you can’t blame us
LMFAO, I agree
hahaha
The best thing Ford can do is shut all of the plants down and send the union workers home. Fain will then have to pay everyone $500 and those funds will dry up quick forcing him to negotiate. This creates an even playing field with both sides having a vested interest in coming to an equitable (for both sides) agreement.
And move everything to Mexico.
The UAW only had 12 weeks of strike fund money to cover everyone. Cant wait to see when its gone, and so will the jobs
also, as a benefit, dealers will have time to sell the overstock of trucks nobody wants or can afford. epa needs to be shut down and quit telling makers what kind of vehicles they have to buy.
Fire the workers and hire new employees. Simple fix!
Cope and seethe, genocider
They can’t if they are signatory to the union. At least not immediately. It would take some time. that’s why there are union contracts. So your employer just can’t throw you away because he thinks he’s overpaying you.
They will just move to Mexico and be done with the UAW terrorist group
They do have the right to replace you. Temporarily of course.
Unions that's why not.
The only thing that the UAW and the strikers are accomplishing are there own lay offs. Once an agreement is reached Ford and the other legacy auto makers will just invest more into automation which will eliminate these workers jobs.
Or close down American plants and expand overseas
@@CombatSport777 I wouldn't be surprised if that happens. A lot of companies are looking at mexico, vietnam and india for plants now.
@@CombatSport777or get bought out by Chinese companies.
The uaw is killing their own jobs...DUMMIES
@@CombatSport777 Just off the top of my head, I can think of at least 8 Big Three auto plants within a 100 mile radius of where I live that have closed and moved overseas during the past 35 years. It's pretty clear to me that the workers are pricing themselves out of a job. The union keeps talking about corporate greed. I think there is greed on both sides of the bargaining table.
This is going to be a long strike until someone gives in.
With the holiday season coming up and winter, it's going to be a long cold season
Workers at this point are not concerned about holidays until they get what’s owed to them! It’s a sacrifice they are willing to make & I respect them for that
@@timothyhunt5721nothings owed to them, they should be lucky to have a job. Now they will all get replaced by automation and moving plants outside USA.
wrong. @@eplugplay8409
@@timothyhunt5721 not sure being unemployed is a good thing...That's where it's headed..8 quick weeks
@@eplugplay8409 youre owed nothing and your job should be automated or replaced.
UAW is hurting more than helping. They are asking too much.
I used to pickup containers at KTP to chicago and back to louisville!! Im sure you got plenty of other people that would take that 20+ an hour job for you! Problem is nobody wants to work now and when they do they want unrealistic pay for a simple job
The people at the top(ceo,coo,cfo etc.) are stewards of the company. They didn't start these companies, they didn't take a big gamble with their own money, they have nothing at risk even if they fail. If they are replaced, they get a severence package worth 20 times their salary for doing a horrible job. Remember Home Depots Robert Nardelli? It's all a wall street, ivy league club they belong to. Elon Musk is the only guy in the auto industry who deserves his wealth in my opinion. This whole system needs a reset. The people making the product deserve their fair share. Not just in the auto world, but every sector. When america sold out, or was bought out by the walmarts, the home depots, the walgreens and cvs, the krogers and such 20+ years ago, i don't think anybody realized what they were setting this country up for. Total control of every facet of our goods and services is owned by huge corporations who are just assaulting us with savage markups in prices since covid. Time to stand up to them all and quit buying overpriced products for a few quarters, see how their stock prices react.
Robert nardelli was past over for for top spot at G.E. , THERE'S REASONING FORTHAT MOVE. TOOOO RADICAL
Sounds good, but reality in america is buy now pay later. Credit card debt is over one trillion dollars for fiscal year 2023.
They are INHERITORS not CREATORS they've merely steered the ship that any reasonably competent person could do. Greedily clenching to all their money because they know damn well it's the only thing they're good at!
define "fair share"
They employ you, not you Ford. Just because your employed by FORD DOESN'T MEAN THEY RESPECT YOU.
This is the worst possible time for the UAW to be doing this because there's already a vehicle shortage. Makers like Honda and Toyota don't have access to the chips and parts that they need and smaller makers like Mazda aren't going to be able to make up for the volume. That basically leaves the germans, who are struggling because of the war in Ukraine and then the koreans, who obviously can't Supply the entire world with vehicles. Add to that the fact that the public is already fed up with being unable to get parts and vehicles and this is just spelling a public relations disaster for the uaw. I don't think this is going to end well for them.
I just drove back from Florida and was very surprised on how many brand new Kia's where on the road. Some of the Kia's where as big as suburbans. Most of the Kia's where being driven by young people ! Brand loyalty last a very long time. I have to say the Kia's has the styling and look nailed. All the older men on my street own 4 door pickups and to a person they say most likely it's their last one. I think the big US truck makers of half ton trucks are in for a shock! It appears to me all the young people starting out and making some coin are buying small good looking economical cars. The one's that are moving up fast and making big coin are buying Teslas and BMW's. The big three days are numbered. just my opinion.
@@Bigfoot2025 Most people can't spend $80 to $150 for a F350 or similar truck. And that is sold at the dealer prices not some made up suggested retail price that always gets pushed around. This is also pre UAW strike. Can you imagine what the strike is going to do to vehicle prices. Who the heck can go out and spend $100k+ on a new vehicle.
So of course people are going to be pushed into Kia's and the like because they are still affordable to the average working middle to low end class.
@@Toom316 Auto makers are only putting out what people want and will pay the stupid prices for. All the bells and whistles don't come cheap.
Guess who out numbers the UAW, all the people involved in "Making the parts" and "Shipping the parts" to the assembly plants. All those people and their families get devastated by this strike. This strike hurts millions of innocent people.
Shame on the UAW! Find another way to get your point across!
Want to know how much the parts those people are marked up to the dealer cost?
Back in my days working the parts counter for a motorcycle shop, our cost was 33% of the cost you would pay. The company we got them from had the same markup.
I doubt it has changed much judging from the infomercial auto repair insurance on the TV.
cant fix stupid
Sounds like they should start sending migrant buses to Kentucky
Commie.
Call Joe , he's shipping them all over even if some state ships them somewhere he doesn't care.
@@stick9648 commie.
Once upon a time at a far off company a strike was formed. The math was done and it was discovered that no rank and file worker would ever re-coup the money lost while on strike.
Well then, who does? All the higher echelon of the union from shop stewards up.
Striking is the only power a union has over a company.
They say 5 out of 4 people are bad with fractions and math in general..
My wifes Ford Explorer has been in the shop mulitiple times. Still has an electrical issue where it randomly won't start which they can't figure out. American vehicles are not worth the prices their asking and yet the workers want more money to build substandard vehicles. You want more money, then do a better job.
Design and engineering issues?
@@vicgeier3482 NO...lazy drunk and high line workers building junk they don't take pride in the work they do anymore but want $100k plus a year
eat shtt.
support Japan
@@vicgeier3482workers who have poor work ethics and do a crappy job of what they’re working on.
Expedition and the Navigator; 2 vehicles that we can certainly live without.
And most people cant afford them anyway!
It makes up 1/6th of their entire income. It's gonna hurt.
Everybody likes big suvs wtf u talking about u probably can’t drive tf
Put the company out of business and you’ll have no job at all !!
All UAW built vehicles are worthless, built by lazy ignorant low-skilled union cry babies 😭
Not to worry. The auto making will move to Mexico , China or India. Dumb unions.
They need to move to nonunion states!
@@thomasrichards6245 the left won't allow that.
I remember all the GOOD jobs at G.E. in upstate NY for over 40 years and the families that were supported by those jobs, the markets and ancillary services that thrived as a result of EVERYONE having a GOOD job and benefits. Then the Unions and their members decided it was time to flip it all on it's head. Now no one has jobs and the nearby communities are filled with welfare recipients and single parent houses (can't call them homes) and all the mom & pop shops lost the ability to remain open and serving their local families, so those building are abandoned. Gas stations, convenient stores, and local restaurants are closed/gone too. I know what brought this change to our region and it was not "corporate greed" - it was Unions. G.E. is just one example. Unions are destroying jobs and communities for their LEFTIST masters and you're all taking part in it, like good little lemmings.
So don't complain when you don't make your regular income while not working. Some day, a few of you will grow up and realize that YOU don't give anyone anything for nothing.....and you should not expect others to give you EVERYTHING you want for nothing. It's called give & take and the sooner you grow up, the sooner you all start working together with all of us and get this thing back on the tracks so WE ALL WIN.
I'm from upstate and saw this happen also in New England.
These workers should hold this Biden administration high inflation! The company should hold off until the strikers start to feel it!
I was in a closed union shop for 19 years. They voted a strike. We got replaced.
was it worth it
Better Pensions are not good for the UAW, because if Ford goes into Bankruptcy court, then the Pensions are lost.
I know this after working in the Steel Mill for 30 years. My father took an early retirement. LTV Steel went bankrupt. My father lost his pension, and for went into a Federal Pension Insurance Fund. This gave him a fraction of his Pension.
Most of us don’t have pensions bc of the recession. During that time the UAW HELPED the big 3 by giving it away and the companies said “we will give it back when we’re back on our feet” they have been back on their feet the last 10+ years
What about taking your finances into your own hands. I did it on my own with no guaranteed pension. I lived within my means and saved for the future. @@Kalinbuggs
Yes. And they need to stay that way else they’ll be in trouble again.
@@Kalinbuggs Being an ex Steel worker, I feel your pain.
You are going through what Steel Workers went through in the 70's.
As I see it, your best option is when they close a plant get the plant, and equipment to produce car.
EV's are a bust. So let them go on the dream to produce EV's.
When they close the plant, get the plant and equipment to produce cars. Then create a Workers owned Company.
Went GM & Ford dump the Union, there next step will go bankrupt.
My father worked for LTV Steel. He worked in the Steel Mill for 30 years.
He got an early retirement. Soon after LTV went bankrupt and his pension was grabbed by the bankruptcy court.
This is why a severance package is worthless.
After the Steel Mills shutdown, 200,000 people left Pittsburgh.
(That is why you see so many Steelers fans at Steelers away games)
So if you think, you can work at another company in your area, it not going to happen. Because those little companies are
depend on the Big 3.
You know going EV's is a stupid move. So I think taking over the plant is a good idea.
Except don't produce the plastic, gadget filled car.
Go the route of the old VW. The VW came to America in the 50's, it was basically a 30's car with few upgrades. It sold very well, because people needed a cheap, easy to maintain car.
Today cars are too expensive. Middle class people need a cheap 2nd car. Young people need a cheap car also.
So if you can get a Worker owned Car Company, then you will become one of the largest car manufacturers.
While GM & FORD will go bankrupt making EV's or over priced gadget cars
Ev is a flash is the pan. EV is the new Edsel
Edsel was a good man, just an ugly car!!!
I've owned every brand of truck built in America plus two jeeps and I'm sticking with Toyota
If you don't need performance or going to work it hard toyota is a good choice.
Commie
This is what happens when a worker can be trained in a few days to do one job and then demands skilled labor wages.
I doubt you have ever worked on a shop floor never mind doing skilled labor there. It takes longer than a few days to train someone on the assembly line. Try walking in their shoes for one day, I dare you.
@@bikerkat01 HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!’ You’re doubt is wrong! I have never worked on a floor either. I rebuild equipment that turns 30+ thousand rpm just a few thousandths of an inch from a cover. Nothing you can say is anything but pathetic. This is the retort that people like you get when you assume and imply that you know anything about someone you’re only guessing about. Nothing that you do is not planned by an engineer and scripted by management. And performed by zero gravity pr low impact equipment.
But this is going to make it too difficult to contunue spending billions of dollars doing buybacks
Exactly! Fk those CEOs
Noooooooo not the buy backs!!! 😂
That's good. How do buybacks help again??
@@reubenmorris487
For most companies they can manipulate their stock, which makes investors money if they choose to sell. For ford that’s not the case their stock hasn’t reached over $15 in my entire adult life.
That is what bureaucracy does, buy their own stock in lieu of increasing production by improving facilities. Just an artificial inflation of value that should be criminal. What do they do with the profit? give it to just a few at the top- tens of millions of dollars. Billions in profit, where did it go?
Has anyone watched these guys “build cars”? They guide parts like instrument panels and seats into cars with machines that do all the work. All they do is plug things in (not always) and install and tighten bolts (sometimes but not always).
This is no longer a skilled labor. Almost anyone that can tune a screwdriver can do it!
Lmao I’d love to see you try it for 8 hours guarantee you cry and quit by lunch. 🤣
8hr... go work in a steel mill for 12-16hr
@@Cityboifresh
LOL. I fix their fuckups daily at the dealer for 8 hours. Pulling dashes, engines and transmissions after they’ve been installed. Would Love to see these guys do that kind of work for 8 hours a day!
@@dodgeguyz they do you fucking moron lmao how you think the shit got in there.🤣🤣🤣🤣 be careful dissin UAW dealer mechanic, a guy was fired for his “fuck UAW” comment . You’re probably just the oil change guy in real life.Just stfu please you’re embarrassing yourself at this point.
Yes, every station has fixtures, guides, lifts, etc to make assembly as quick, easy and fool proof as possible. The automakers spend a huge amount of money on those work aids.
The average UAW worker makes $56,000 a year plus profit-sharing plus benefits. How again is this not "fair"? 🤔
Lmao you go in their and do most of the jobs and see how your hands and knees feel
6% pay raise over the last 4 years (1.5% per year). Loss of pensions for new workers in 2007. Meanwhile 40% raise for executives over the same 4 years. $5 BILLION spent on stock buybacks to drive up executive stock bonuses. $21 billion profit this year, $ 250 billion over the last ten years. The production workers made all that profit and executives got the reward. That is how it is "not fair".
@@toddtheisen8386yep the executives who sit and spew bs get the big buck raise awhile the actual hard workers get peanuts or pizza parties
@@indianapublicland7429Apparently you should have got an education or learned a REAL trade…
@@toddtheisen8386 Boo-hoo-hoo. Most people would love to have gotten a 6% pay raise over the last four years. How much the bosses make is none of the workers' business. 🙄
Ford offered the UAW a sweetheart deal, and they walked away? The UAW has lost its way. Greedy in a time while most Americans don't make anything near what auto workers do.
These people make way more money than the average person, and they want more money? This crap is just like politicians, giving themselves raises every year 🤦🏻♂️🙄
Washington is currently subsidizing union plants
I have a bad taste in my mouth for unions. 20 years worth. But i also don’t like what’s going on with this. I feel that today there is just way to many lazy union employees who want everything for nothing ! Not saying every facility is that way either. Or maybe i just feel this way because of getting poor representation. Maybe ufcw 🤮
If a company is making billions and every year they keep increasing investor dividends to keep investors then the money is there. They’re more worried about keeping investors more than workers. Unions help regardless of if you like them or not. America is gonna be jobless in 40 years because of automation
If it were truly about the economy then top heavy management would allllll take pay cuts and pause raises. Instead they make their own raises and leave the workers stagnant. Blame the stock holder culture in America not the workers
@@NoVaRedacteddon’t waste your time bro
@@Kalinbuggs people who think unions ruin everything annoys the shit out of me. I work for the railroad and the government fucked us over. Forcing a contract down our throats. people are happy about making it easier for a company to make billions and claim workers are selfish and then turn around and bitch about billion dollar companies. Imbeciles.
Crazy world we’re in
@@NoVaRedactedPlus illegals and refugees ie Burma etc . I had over 15 years at a Kroger non union warehouse and lost my job because of the illegals and my other friends as well . They wasn't happy paying me 16 bucks an hour which took me all of them years to make . The other side of the warehouse went all automated with a machine called WITRON . The worker can't win with a union or not . Even white collar jobs are being replaced with AI . I was talking with a AI person the other day on the phone thinking it was a real person until it told me it didn't understand what I wanted and told me to stay on the line for a real person .
Get rid of union workers there are plenty of hard working Americans that would appreciate that job and would strive for better quality!!!
Like the hard working Tesla workers. How do you know their turn over rate? Can they afford a Model X?
95% OF UAW JOBS CAN BE REPLACED BY PEOPLE WITH 1-2 WEEKS OF TRAINING. These are not skilled positions. These people are lucky they still have good paying jobs doing such low skill work. Hopefully, the big 3 invest in automation and rid themselves completely of this ridiculous union and the problems they cause.
I have to agree with you 100 percent
why haven't they been replaced?
@@MUCKFOOT399 Union contract stipulations mostly. Plus, the big 3 are not exactly run efficiently. They are definitely using more robotics these days however.
@@mikenimmick3920 they should make it all temp service workers.
all minimum wage
no benefits
make single bedroom apartments
can fire and replace them any reason
@@mikenimmick3920 oh , and the 25 billion in profits from last year the CEOS made will double 👍👍👍✊️
Shawn needs to be fired! This is absolutely ridiculous! These people are already making well over $100,000 plus one hell of a benefits package! Apparently they want no job instead of a really good job!🤬
Who makes 100k? Nobody does working 40 hours. Maybe 70 hours 52 weeks a year 🥱
Redo your math $32 current cap x 40 hours x 52 weeks $66k. So after taxes, 401k, if you have other deductions like child support you’re making even less. My CS is $8800 a year. So after taxes a 66k income is $50k. If you do 8% 401k for the year that’s another $5k or more off. So now you’re at $45k. After CS $37k.
Learn something instead of blabbing. Now you have to live off $37k for 12 months which is $3k.
say a mortgage is 1000-1500.
Do the math dummy 🥱
It’s hard for many people to understand why these people would purposely do something to harm the company that provided a job for them. And it’s hard many people to understand how a company could every trust those people again, enough to allow them back through their doors.
I bet your ass ain't never worked for Kentucky Truck! It's always the people who have never worked inside a plant who want to blame the workers. Bet you don't know about the work conditions. Do you know why Ford never had to ask for a bail out? That's because the workers decided to take the hit for the company. And we still haven't received what was promised to us. When a worker can die on Ford property, and Ford lies and says that the person died on the way to the hospital to avoid a major lawsuit and media coverage, that says a he'll of a lot about a company. This was confirmed to me by a Morgan & Morgan lawyer a year ago. There's a lot of shit that goes on inside those Ford plants you all don't have a clue about. But you damn sure don't mind driving the vehicles that are made from literal blood, sweat, and tears! Bet you sit behind some nice cushy desk. The hardest work most people want is keeping from having a damn paper - cut at the end of the day! To each his own. But don't dare open your mouth against Ford employees! Or any UAW member for that matter! Ford doesn't even allow the police to come anywhere near KTP. IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW MANY ACCIDENTS HAPPEN IN FRONT OF THE PLANT. WHEN YOU CAN TELL THE COMMISSIONER THAT TICKETING HIS EMPLOYEES COMING INTO WORK FOR WHAT EVER REASON IS CUTTING IN TO HIS "LINE- TIME" IN THE PLANT AND YOU NO LONGER SEE POLICE NEAR THE PLANT.....THATS A LOT OF FREAK'N PULL! IT'S LIKE IT'S OWN LITTLE CITY AROUND THERE, AND NO ONE INTERFERES! KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT AND TRY TO GIVE TWO SHITS ABOUT THE WORKERS BEFORE OPENING YOUR MOUTH! BETTER YET, TAKE YOUR ASS INSIDE OF KTP AND WORK A YEAR OR TWO UNTIL YOU START NEEDING SURGERY ON YOUE SHOULDERS, KNEES OR BACK! APPRECIATE A COMPANY FOR GIVING THEM A JOB......SOME FUCK'N NERVE MAN!
It's not intentional harm. Striking is about increasing the scarcity of labor in the immediate market. Labor IS the company. No labor, no company. It is a critical resource that a company cannot do without.
If an oil company's wells dry up they have to spend more money to move, find and drill etc. What happens if the oil company cannot afford the higher price of doing business? Labor is just another resource, an input. It is the most important one.
You think Ford didn't know this strike was coming a year ago? They have had plenty of time to solve this problem.
Blaming labor for their concerns like they are, is like the oil company blaming oil because it dried up where they were located.
Seems like the strategy to strike certain sites before others disproportionately affects workers from those sites.
Like the old way that targets only one company, and it's still disproportionate?
I think it's OK to collapse everything so very few rough looking workers can get 67 an hour to put a sticker on a airbag
You know nothing about assembly plant work. Nothing !
No you know nothing about what this is going to do to the economy locally and nationally the union should’ve dealt dealt with this years ago
@@larrypruitt3919 I do and what that person wrote is true...they are LAZY
@@wood4278I did and they do more than one job like the 🤡 above said. I never said some ppl weren’t lazy. That’s america period.
@@larrypruitt3919 I just retired in April from Ford Motor Company 31 years...that place is full of want it all but don't want to work for it lazy bums
Simple shut it down, tell union kick rocks and open back up as non union
Ford made $25 billion last year?
How much did they give away to shareholders?
How much in bone us money?
And the folks doing the work got? SCREWED AGAIN.
Morons like you that think poor people don't deserve a fair share of the pie they help make need to be shipped of to an iceberge at the North Pole.
The government has made it so they can't keep the unions out. If they want to keep the unions out they are going to have to move production to another country. That is why Ford built their massive plant with supplier integration in Brazil and not the US. They wanted to build it in the US but the UAW said no to the supplier integration and several other things Ford wanted in the new plant. So they built it in Brazil. Was the largest Ford plant at the time, still may be.
I bought a 1999 F150 it was 9yr old; with a 8'ft bed with fiberglass Cap... Two wheel drive, 4.6 V8 with 73,000 miles on it when I bought it. I've had it for 15yrs it has 218,000 miles on it now. When I bought it, cost $5,900. There selling 10yr old trucks for $10,000 or more. New Trucks forget it! I'm convinced this is my last pick-up-truck. The BIG 3 are out of touch!
What you just described is a MARKET change more than a manufacturer issue.
@@LackeysBeTrippin MARKET change, Its called GREED$
I, like wise have a 2002 f 150 245500 miles runs great. Last truck for me. Look at all of the recalls on the new. Overpriced junk.😢
@@jimritter9769 YOU Nailed it! Computerized junk. No Pick-UP-Truck needs all this electronic garbage on it. I hand crank my windows LOL!
it's the epa outlawing small trucks. also, the gen z-x ??? can't have manual transmissions, manual windows, no ac, ps,cruise, cheap radio, alarms, buzzers, keyless,-all junk and $$$ and problems. Can't buy a new vehicle without that crap
Fire these labor extortionists and replace them with people who will honor their terms of employment.
Unions are like participation trophies for adults, hire people who WANTs to work and forget these goofs.
THAT IS FUNNY!!!!!!!
I wonder how fluid the UAW strike fund is. And how long its members are willing to walk the picket lines. The holidays aren’t that far away.
It seems like the UAW is doing the auto manufacturers a favor by pulling their workers off when they're not needed anyway. I think they're working together
🤔
Let’s be honest here… They could say screw it and hire all new employees easily and offer them your pay! Screw unions. They are for lazy people
Very true
And we wonder why a new vehicle costs as much as a house....
First off, a simple google search "why are car prices so high" will tell you that it's because of the global health crisis that has affected supply chains dramatically. I don't expect you to know this because you haven't worked ten years in an automotive assembly plant like I have. There has been MANY days called off because we simply did not have enough parts. For every delay, every part shortage, they try to compensate by raising prices.
We have NOT striked them like this or asked for more for a DECADE. You are no different than the CEOs. We make up a small fraction of the total cost of manufacturing. We literally have to fight for more because there is ZERO incentive for the companies to pay their workers a fair wage. Their bottom line is profits, not people. That's why unions are fundamental in a capitalist society, because, at their best, the bottom line of unions are PEOPLE not profits. It's a simple balancing act. Furthermore, taylorsutherland6973, we are currently bargaining with the current prices on vehicles, so blame the company if they raise prices.
I only ask that you go forward not commenting from emotion, but to seek the logic and knowledge behind everything and not to make second hand passing remarks on the lives of close to 500,000 tax paying, hard working, Americans. Whom I am proud to call brother and sister.
Labor to build a vehicle is 5% or less. Vehicle prices went up 30% over the last few years and pay has went up 6% over the last 13 years....are you serious? Vehicles are expensive because they want to maximize profits period.
@@regalkismet The auto industry has some of the lowest margins of any industry...
25 Billion every year for 3 years Ford has been making for a total of 75 billion in profits. That's nothing to laugh at.@@keco185
How much will the price of a vehicle increase if you move to 32 hour weeks and get a 40% pay raise will have to figure that into the price I guess? Doesn't matter to me I'll never buy that overpriced junk again.
Cars and trucks are made with cheaper materials and foreign labor, they are more expensive than ever CEO'S make more money than ever these companies are bailed out with our tax dollars & people still don't get it ?
Ford wasn't bailed out. Try again
@@andybales7318yes they were bailed out. They were bailed out by the UAW on the promise their concessions would be reinstated.
@@andybales7318 Ford did take government money. Don't let facts stand in your way.
But dodge and stellantis were so you try again😊
@@andybales7318they were bailed out by their workers and have received billions in taxpayer subsidies over the years.
Hell with it just close the doors for good
Being able to invest and profitably grow was not a concern while execs raised their own wages 40%....pay the people
I can’t believe all the comments against American workers. The ceo of gm sat on tv & admitting making $29m last year. But the workers can’t get a better wage? Greed is ruining this country. Enough!
I have to agree. If you can RANDOMLY give yourself a 40% raise, you can give your employees a 40% raise as well. These ceos aren't struggling to keep food on the table or a roof over their heads, it's a shame how out of touch they are.
The reality is pensions are not going to come back pensions are too damn expensive. That’s why they have 401(k)s for a reason. People who’s been working not just at Ford but other places before they got rid of pension are the only people they’re only gonna have a pension
Yes and will have a lot more poor Americans at retirement age.
@@balor7 That depends how do you spend your money and how much you save your money how much do you invest your money and even if you do retire will see you retire with her for a 1K you’re good for I. don’t know some of years but you can work on the side. There’s nothing wrong with that to make a little extra cash here and there.
Every government employee has a pension. Pro-rated at 100% of their wages! That goes for elected officials, too. They only need around 12 years to be vested. When union workers need 30 years for a 65% return. Way better than a 401K, though!
Lots of the strikers will never be able to go back to their jobs.
Just rename the plant, and start training new crews. "Only dead fish go with the flow"!
Moronic comment.
@@Spazticspaz Until it actually happens.
Let's come back in a few months and see who was right. @@oldsrocket8841
Modern problems require modern solutions.
@@Spazticspaz - What is moronic about that? I say, build plants in free states, hire non-union workers and F the mob mentality unions.
UAW is more worried about lining their own pockets and those of their political allies.
Crooked kickback kings, dont care about the membership
Fire them all! I’ll take that job at their current wage rate ALL DAY LONG!
The Big Three need to fire all of these people drop your Union contract and hire non-union workers not only will the price of production drop the price of vehicles will also drop.
Your an idiot. Unions are great for the working man. Prices wouldn’t go down because your employees aren’t union. The owners of ford don’t give a shit about me, you, or our neighbors. Prices will continue to rise on vehicles no matter what.
No one told Ford to get involved in a Chinese joint venture for the Battery supply plants...Nor did they twist Ford's arm into accepting large amounts of Tax Payer money for the Battery Plant investments...
I mean, after much negotiation, GM has no such issue with UAW Representation for their present and future Battery Plants..
The American government is mandating all electric crap vehicles. Your boy Fain is in on it.
AI and automation will fix that.
@@rustynail7866watch what happens
Chinese going to put chips in the batteries to track your life and sell the data
Nobody is forcing you to work there either it's called choices
They still make Expeditions and Navigators?
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I believe the UAW needs to have a talk with the dealerships. Seeing how they've marked up vehicle's so high and no one can afford them. I guess they'll all be out of jobs soon.
Because you’re greedy you make too much money for it needs to shut the plant down
I think its kind of funny that everyone is talking about how expensive everything is. The reason everything keeps going up is that the companies employees hold the companies hostage for higher wages then the companies jack the prices up. Its a vicious cycle and will have to stop somewhere. Probably like the 80's when nobody could find a job because everything got shipped to Mexico and overseas. Luckily im out of the labor force now and i can just sit back and watch everybody grovel for their pennies. Which wont matter because whatever they want will just keep going up. Have fun with your $150,000 truck!
Ignorant. A simple google search would show you "The global health crisis and supply chain problems caused a shortage of new cars, which led to limited supply and record-breaking prices."
Funny how you bring up the Mexico built vehicles....have you ever checked the prices on those $100 per week employees? Did you save money from buying one of those vehicles??? Nope! They raised those prices up 30 percent too.
Learn what you are talking about before you utter ignorant verbal diarrhea.
Several reasons for high vehicle cost:
1) Mandated gov't EPA regulations requiring expensive hardware to comply.
2) Overload of useless gadgetry on vehicles, i.e. cheap you don't need, by consumers gobble it up.
3) Inflation due to excessive govt spending
For those who are complaining about how little they make, what holds you from leaving to a better job of its so bad? A: Its still the best game in town for an unskilled, uneducated person. While the pay increases have been marginal, UAW still pays no medical monthly insurance co-pay, and year over year that's a big increase.
Get your facts straight! These kids are working for $16 an hour. Union hater? Fine. Your business. But don't talk about what you don't know about. YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM IN THIS COUNTRY !
Only between 5 and 6% of the vehicle price is labor wages. The cost of the vehicle is not the fault of labor.
I hope the UAW does to the American auto industry what the unions did to Hostess. Then the world will see for themselves the fruits of opening yourself up to a union. Unions literally resent the company they force the company to use. It’s a sick and disgusting situation. Think about it for a minute. These guys literally believe that companies are taking advantage of them. Yet instead of just moving on to greener pastures and letting the free market decide, they force the companies to hire only them and the employees can therefore only keep working for the union. Unions literally remove competition and fight the free market
And the free market is nothing but a battle to the bottom. The lowest bid. Unions built this country, I find it odd you think that if someone is getting paid at union pay scale you think that’s the problem? The problem is corporate greed. The millions, and billions of dollars a handful of people make at the top. The problem is what they’re asking for in this particular strike is downright ridiculous. 40% pay increase? Complete nonsense.
A four day work week on top of that pay, again, complete nonsense. Being in a union myself, it boggles my mind that the workers would actually agree, or even think they could pull something like this off. They’re already making what, $90,000 a year? Now they want a $40,000 a year raise and work 32 hours less a month. This will never happen. And people, thousands of people will lose their job, and be replaced by automation, whoever is running this union should be removed.
They think as high school educated line workers they are entitled to profit sharing. They dont deserve a dime more than McDonalds workers
@@Maynardd unions did not build this country. The entrepreneurs whom the union members like to vilify, along with people who wanted the safety of working the someone else built this country. Everyone helped build this country. The unions are like parasites who hate their hosts … without the people who actually put skin in the game (entrepreneurs) and risked everything, the unions would have no one to work for and therefore no one to vilify except their neighbors who hustled and made a like for themselves…
@@Maynardd the unions care nothing about the companies they work for and we can all see it in their workmanship. They have no pride in their work. They are too busy being victims to the corporations and envying them to actually have pride in the work they do. The mentality is “unless you pay me what I think I’m worth, then I’m not going to put 100% in”. You can see now where unions have gotten us. There are zero successful corporations which hire unions left.
@@JoeSchmoe-mp3pm that couldn’t be further from the truth. And you couldn’t be more wrong.
Ford needs to come to a right to work state and cut the pay to be inline with tesla and Toyota and just get it over with
Michigan used to be a right to work state.
@@vicgeier3482 But then the nasty liberals got power and it got booted
You would not have a fragile supply chain if more of the parts were made here.
Is fain still getting paid? Ill bet $50 he is. A good leader and management would suspended their pay till the strike is over, uaw and big three
Drop the union workers, then drop the prices on the cars.
unions are the reason we have 40 hour work weeks, health insurance and weekends. it will be a very quick backsliding if there isn't anyone looking after the rights of the workers.
@@bobloblaw9679 they’re also the reason for massive off shoring, automation accelerating, and slow wage growth. The benefits come out of something nothing is free.
I hope they fire everyone that is on strike, they make so much money and benefits, that's why vehicles are priced so high. Just fire them all and go non union.
This strike is going to cost ALL US autoworkers their job. It's really a stupid move on their part, especially right now when the pricing of vehicles has made them unaffordable to the majority of potential customers. And the pay the autoworkers receive from the last contract still allows them to live in luxury compared to the average American. There's no reason to strike.
Just because a certain percentage of Ford revenue comes from Louisville doesn't mean the products can't be built in another country. The union is being absolutely foolish.
American auto companies must respond to market conditions, and they would be very correct to close all US plants down now, sell the land for cash, and build plants in other countries.
Close it down for a year and reopen without the union.
When the kitchen is on fire and it is spreading fast, you don't go to the basement and start another fire.
They risk crashing the entire economy.
If that's what we have to do to take the message of end corporate greed then that's what needs to be done!!
We don't find for just us...but for the middle class. Most of us are tired of letting the rich take advantage of us.
I agree. This is incredibly irresponsible behavior by the Big 3.
@@jasonharvey8896 You don't deserve the companies profits, you only do a very small job you don't run the company. You take zero out of pocket risks, you have clearly never own a business.
@@mustangecoboosthpp3869 Exactly, Anyone working for someone else is being compensated for their work in the form of a paycheck. They are not entitled to a profit sharing check.
@@jasonharvey8896 I am out of work because of your strike. Explain to me and the bill collectors exactly how your strike is helping me?
Fire them all and hire people who want to work