Standing on the picket line was Virginia Williams, a retired Wayne assembly worker. The 65-year-old worked as a laborer for 28 years and is now chair pro tem of the Romulus City Council. Williams retired 10 years ago, but has three children and a grandson working at Ford.
“We can’t have workers making cars they can’t afford to buy,” she said. “It makes them feel angry.”
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What are UAW’s other demands?
The four-day workweek is just one part of the UAW’s demands for the Big Three – Ford, General Motors and Stellantis, formerly Fiat Chrysler. The union also wants big pay raises – which Fain says the Big Three can afford, since their CEOs saw a 40% pay increase on average in the last four years. They also want more paid time off and a benefit pension, among other things.
They also want to restore COLA – cost of living adjustments – that ensure the working class receives the benefits needed to survive in the current economy. COLA is used by the Social Security Administration, which increased benefits for 70 million people by 8.7 percent in 2023.
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Credit card and car loan delinquencies pass pre-Covid levels as consumers get squeezed
The rate of new auto loan delinquencies is also on the rise, hitting 7.3% in the second quarter, compared with 6.9% in the first quarter. That’s also above pre-Covid levels.
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I was considering buying a new car last year but there was no supply. That is fine since I doubt I would pay $45,000 (and up) for a car. Plus 7% tax for the all intrusive state. I did get a letter from the local Ford dealership telling me that they would pay me over blue book value for my 2014 F150.
I understand that inflation has purposefully killed the American Dream. I also understand that not many people can afford to buy a new car (or even a used car). I believe that is the point: the government wants all gas powered transportation to be eliminated. Unrestricted transportation is a measure of freedom. It also is a natural law right. Fifteen minute Democrat arbitoir cities are nothing more than concentration camps (if you survive).
Think about the elimination of the auto industry, petroleum industry and tourism on what is left of the American economy. It is very telling that the “list of demands” from the UAW changes depending on the source.
The majority of my life was dedicated to starting and running a small business. No pension, 401K, unemployment benefits or even 50 hour weeks for me. Going Galt was the epitome of the measure of my success. I define success differently than most people: food on the table, no debt and a firm reliance on Divine Providence.
As for the auto workers’ demands: people cannot buy cars and trucks at current prices. I must admit it is fun to watch Democrat led union workers shoot themselves in the foot. I suspect this “strike” will be long since most working patriots are suffering worse economic conditions than these autoworkers. Then again, no one seems to care about the actors’ and writers’ strike. Another sector of the economy that has no clue about the people who made this country great.
David DeGerolamo
They are cutting their own throat with these demands, these unions are under socialist control, or better yet communist.
They are trying to kill what remains of American automotive manufacturing. Soon it will all be foreign built.
No, I could care less about them and there communist led democratic union leaders who always throw their support at every election cycle for democrats. the members might not be as so inclined to vote democrat but many of the idiots still do, they have been voting themselves out of jobs for the last forty years and longer and it will continue until the majority of the plants are closed down. Their corporate heads have all become WOKE pro-gay/Transgender/BLM/antifa morons and are self-destructing their own companies and stockholders.
Mayhaps it’s time to buy a horse and some tack. Works for the Amish.
It will affect me as I work for a car manufacturer which is not o e of the big 3. So if they give them a good pay raise my company will have to do the same.
maybe you guys should walk off the job when the corporate master tries forcing you guys to build electric cars and cutting all of your throats, that would be the time to say NO and Walk.
should have fired everyone before they had the opportunity to strike.
Does any one care?
Well it has been said that for every one person that is on strike this could affect 6 more down the job chain. This affects more people than just the immediate self centered clowns whos only thought is me, me, me.
The Globalist know what they are doing!
I think your last sentence really nails it.
It toes in with what I have been saying about this current malaise -- one side is centered in reality, the other is manufacturing their own as they see fit.
Mother Nature, Laws of Thermodynamics, Darwin, use whatever label you wish, but that side always wins -- thats why they are called the LAWS of Thermodynamics. Cannot be broken, no matter how much one wishes so. Just like all the other BS, gender bending, etc. That is why it seems like our side is not acting. We’re sitting back and waiting for reality to be the stone cold bitch she is.
These people in the unions, running the UAW, Execs at the companies, they literally live in a totally different reality from the rest of us. Through various means they have insulated themselves from what they are manufacturing (aka border crisis). As we are now seeing, reality is baaaaaack, in a big way, and suddenly open borders and wide open immigration ISN’T a good thing?
She’s a stone cold bitch, ain’t she..? The snap-back has started. The pendulum has begun to swing back the other way, and it was at quite an extreme, so buckle up, going to swing just as far to the other side.
this is a smidge off topic but not really, get rid of the majority of electric cars