Nobody bring up brake pads
Most media outlets do not acknowledge that only one transplant factory in the United States is unionized. The former Diamond-Star Motors now only Mitsubishi plant in Normal, Illinois remains represented by the United Auto Workers. Also, the plant won a contract to build the Mitsubishi Outlander Sport starting in 2012 which saved it from closing.
There are really few benefits for unionizing auto workers---workers pay the union bosses who will likely bankrupt the company, and consumers pay more for vehicles that are no better than those made by non-union plants run by Asian companies here. Many would argue Toyotas, Nissans, and Hyundais are better made than domestic vehicles which have overpaid union workers. If Walmart gave in to the union organizers, they might end up like KMart and Sears.
Looks like the German automakers will be the next ones to go bankrupt...
The only beneficiary of unionizing German or Asian manufacturing is the UAW. Remember the car capital of the world, Detroit? Yeah, look how the union helped implode that auto production there...
Dear UAW, suck it. You jackwads had a hand in the destruction of Detroit (it goes hand in hand with the big 3's own incompetence, aided by your own). Leave the companies that do things right alone. You see, Honda, Toyota and Hyundai have no use for you. They treat their employees right, pay them fair and have zero use antiquated thug tactics.
Those that appreciate cars you have no hand in building, thus destroying..
Before joining up with them the plant workers should think about how many members the UAW used to have and how many of them lost their job. They should also consider what the monthly dues cost and the reduced interest the company will have in increasing the plant size, especially when Mexico is so close.
The UAW is a leech on our society, if they are not kept in check, say bye- bye to high quality and innovative designs because the auto companies wont have any money left over.
"The group has previously organized a German automaker’s factory: in 1977, workers at Volkswagen’s plant in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, joined the UAW. The VW plant was later closed in 1988". If we can just get the same results in all the plants across the entire US that would be awsome.
The UAW has a better chance of playing pick-up sticks with their butt cheeks than they do of unionizing the foreign automaker plants in the South. And rightfully so, given the UAW's destructive history.
oh UAW please just go away...
Good luck to'em. Southerners tend to be too worried about losing their jobs when talk of unionization comes up.