Looming over the United Auto Workers strike: Automakers’ continued migration to the anti-union South.

Beginning in the 1970s and 1980s, the auto industry began shifting South, a region long characterized by hostility to labor unions and by low wages.

Since then, assembly lines of higher-paid UAW workers at Detroit’s Big Three – Ford, General Motors and Stellantis – have shrunk. And automakers such as Volvo, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Toyota and Hyundai have steadily hired nonunion autoworkers, who make less money for substantially the same work, in the South.

  • @MagicShel
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    Yeah, we’re about to be flooded with stories about how bad the UAW/ strike is for workers, business, the economy, and your Aunt Ethel. It’s all bullshit.

    • Flying Squid
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      2910 months ago

      The really sad part is that they don’t even have to astroturf. They have an army of useful idiots who will post all kinds of anti-labor propaganda and not even realize it’s all a lie.

      • snooggums
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        Those people exist because of the decades of anti union propaganda.

        • bluGill
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          -310 months ago

          And unions doing foolish things that make them a bad option.

          • snooggums
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            510 months ago

            Thanks, but we did not need an example of someone who has fallen for the anti-union propaganda.

            • bluGill
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              -310 months ago

              Why not? We have a number of examples here of someone who has fallen for pro-union propaganda.

              • norbert
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                010 months ago

                Yeah workers organizing for mutual benefit and negotiation is totally dumb.

                • bluGill
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                  210 months ago

                  You are putting words in my mouth that I never said. Unions as an idea are not bad. However their implementation over the years has done a number of things that are bad.

                  • norbert
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                    110 months ago

                    And unions doing foolish things that make them a bad option.