Ford Lays Off 600 Workers at Plant Targeted by UAW Strike
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Ford is laying off workers while the UAW is striking against Ford, GM, and Stellantis. This is getting complicated.

Ford lays off 600 workers at plant targeted by UAW strike::Ford is laying off workers while the UAW is striking against Ford, GM, and Stellantis. This is getting complicated.

  • whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1190·
    10 months ago

    Making cars in the US makes no sense. The cost of living is too high. It’s much easier to make them in Mexico and ship them.

    • ALavaPulsar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      752·
      10 months ago

      If they want their new EVs to be eligible federal tax credit, the cars need to undergo final assembly in the US. Not to mention we just went through a pandemic that showed us the weaknesses of shipping all our manufacturing to third world countries.

            • Harvey656@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              10 months ago

              Then you have no idea why things NEED to be made here too. Everywhere needs jobs regardless of the country. People need money to spend on things, old things need replaced with new ones sometimes, and the economy fails with no jobs at all. Your comments are short sighted and fail to recognize to unique circumstances of the USA and its needs as you are not a citizen, you don’t know how it actually is here or why Union jobs are important to the working class.

              You read too many sensational ‘America Bad’ articles and it shows.

    • alvvayson@lemmy.worldEnglish
      583·
      10 months ago

      That makes sense for a techbro or a financebro, but turning the blue collar labour force into a horde of minimum wage slaves serving coffee and delivering UPS packages isn’t exactly the future that those people want.

    • MrSpArkle@lemmy.caEnglish
      18·
      10 months ago

      Yeah, we shouldn’t make anything expensive in the US. We should make them abroad and then the unemployed hordes will buy those goods!

      Your statement is too stupid to be anything but a troll.

    • orphiebaby@lemm.eeEnglish
      81·
      10 months ago

      You’d have a point, if it weren’t for the fact that you’re targeting the wrong issues.

    • 50MYT@aussie.zoneEnglish
      826·
      10 months ago

      Bingo

      Watch ford agree to terms and then just close the plants afterwards once they have setup new ones elsewhere

        • Ducks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          10 months ago

          You mean you can’t just pick up hundreds of millions of dollars worth of heavy machinery and move it to another factory down the road overnight?

          • Uncle_Bagel@midwest.socialEnglish
            101·
            10 months ago

            Idiots clearly have never even be to SE Michigan, let alone Detroit, and have no clue how automotive supply chains work. Just about every factory and industrial site from Flint to Toledo is producing parts that either get put into Big 3 cars directly or are used to make equipment that are then used. They have had 30 years of NAFTA to figure out how to move that complicated supply chain to Mexico with success, but are still reliant on American industrial might.