Volkswagen workers ignore Ford CEO Jim Farley's ominous warning
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- Volkswagen workers ignore Ford CEO Jim Farley's ominous warning
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Here in the UK the unions destroyed our car industry in the 1970s and 1980s. Rather than responding to massively more efficient Japanese manufacturers by improving productivity they did the opposite. They sucked the lifeblood out of the employer with endless strikes as destructive parasites do.
Now we have no British owned car manufacturers. Mini is German now, Jaguar was sold to. MG is now Chinese owned. The rest died and the industry now employs just 10% of the numbers it once did.
My great job where I used to have “weekends” after working sometimes 7 days a week was destroyed when the unions decided to close our warehouse rather than getting free money to put into a 401k plan vs the pension that looses money each year!! Oh well!! I hope those same people love driving two hours to work each day!! It was like working at a funeral home after they said we were closing! Now I’m back to the job with no weekends! Yay!!
An example of when unions do a bad job, their goals should be fair pay, reasonable working hours, good working environment, fair number of holidays, maternity leave and fair warnings for unemployment and pension, they should not limit the company in any way otherwise.
Unfortunately Americans have never studied history or learned anything from the past. They are like children discovering things for the very first time.
Unions only ever destroy worker incentives, labour relations and ultimately the unionized company.
Spot On, the Uk now has a low wage low skill "burger flippers" economy thanks to the likes of Red Robbo in the 70's.
The problems with the UK car industry predate the 1970s and the disastrous industrial relations. Lack of investment, short termism, Ill thought out mergers all contributed. BAE shafting Honda and selling out to BMW was the last nail in the coffin for the Rover Group.
"The UAW saved us from Bankruptcy!!" said no business ever.
Except during the 2008+ Great Recession, when they agreed to benefit and compensation cuts to avoid bankruptcy.
VW will have no choice but to pull manufacturing out of the US...
But if they do they are out of the worlds biggest car market?
@@jsanders100 China is the worlds largest car market about double the US size..
@@firstbigbarney No surprise here, the guy is ignorant of VW revenue 50% globally comes from China.
@@jsanders100Ironically, not so.
People buy on price and don't really care where it's made
There aren't many plant workers anymore and less each year. Robotics automation.
And as a controls engineer myself, I can tell you it is no joke to get a plant up and running.
These Unskilled Auto Workers think they can't be replaced !
The UK had “Red Robbo” in the 1970’s and the British motor industry had 523 car factory strikes (BBC Source) and eventually went down the pan by 1980…
Derek was the sole reason the UK auto industry had so many issues. very acidic figure who did so much harm. harm that is still being felt today
@@DwainDwight They were painful times to witness.
Strikes and poooor quality.
The production lines in the video seem to be very labour intensive. How would they compete against Tesla and China?
QC in China sucks to put it lightly. There is a limit to the quality that can be had by what are essentially slaves for the CCP. Free people will always outperform slaves.
I was aghast at the complexity of the wiring c/w what I've seen with Teslas.
Price of vehicles skyrocketed prior to the union strike and settlement in November. Those increases can't be blamed on the unions. Also, paying these people a wage high enough to afford new vehicles, will also help increase new car sales. However, with a higher wage/benefits, companies should expect an improvement in productivity and quality of product.
was VW paying less then the union was?
Their biggests costs are decidedly NOT staff. Last I heard was that only about 5% of the cost of a new GM car was the labor.
VW needs to save $30 billiuon dollare in less than 3 years. The are getting rid of both collar, and blue colar emplyees. About 20,000 of them just staring. Reducing that 5% is very imprtant, since plant utilities are constan value.
That's what the UAW says - voodoo book keeping...
labor is always very high in cost.
Maybe 20 years ago
The biggest cost are the errors and wrong decisions by the Board.
Don't drink the cool aid!
30 Mar 2023 - Volkswagen's supervisory board proposed raising the maximum pay for executive board members to 25% from €12 million to €15 million,
So why can't they pay their workers?
100% agree mate
This is typical class warfare tactics: point at the straw-man of high executive compensation as justification for raising worker pay. One has nothing to do with the other. That said, for someone like Mary Barra to earn $70m a year is clearly an unjustifiable compensation level, given GM's continuing decline in stock price and shrinking market share. But that doesn't mean the factory workers deserve higher pay, nor would higher pay help pull GM out of its slump. On the contrary.
This is what capitalism is all about, bosses take the big share while general hands do most of the work. Do follow the communist China in taking care of workers..
@@ChickensAndGardeningcan you see how you’ve contradicted yourself?
Unions first priority is to keep themselves in business. They do this by playing the company and workers against each other.
Absolutely they lost all ties to workers and became a MAFIA of its own that NOWHERE add anything to a company to survive. The worst that happened to Elon in Germany so far, where they also sabotaged the company and organized destructive ecologist groups. But not against dirty Volkswagen, Audi, Mercedes or BMW factories. Is that really by miracle that they chosen Tesla? Think where so much money is involved the truth is like with Diesel cheating no issue🤬🤔😎
I live in Chattanooga near the VW plant. We have a highly competitive cost of living and 80% of Americans pay more for electricity than we do.
If the union raises wages as they always do VW will have no other choice but to close the plant.
VW themselves have pushed for years for their staff to unionize... if this was so bad i dont think they would have done it
the top VW management are from a very woke, liberal country where they now have a 32-hour work week and benefits that are beyond generous. To them, unionization simply means joining the civilized world.
@@ChickensAndGardeningyet the quality of life for the average person in Germany is better than in the USA where you work to death and make 100k but all goes towards taxes and the cost of living...
@@stefanhaeussler821 I don't disagree about quality of life, but I think America is better for entrepreneurs, even today when taxation and regulation is almost as bad as Europe. There is a "cowboy" mentality in the US that makes it possible to take a crazy idea and build a company. Most such companies fail, but a few succeed, and a very few strike it rich and change the world.
@@ChickensAndGardening you're clearly not living in germany, you'd be surprised how not liberal Germany is especially the weathier south is conservative af
we dont have 32 hr work weeks at least not for fulltime salarys, dunno what is benjond generous benefits for you but wouldnt say that at all and retirement is at 67
UK lost it's motor industry because of unions driving up costs, losing working days thanks to strikes and quality driven down, because of the poison spewed by unions that used the us and them tactic to cause a rift and to win over workers
along with coal, steel, ship building, and just about every other major industry Britain used to be a leader in.
@@ChickensAndGardening It all moved to countries where Labour was cheaper and werent afraid of making production changes to reduce Labour hours.
Some how we lost our courage to make changes and the Unions made sure changes couldnt happen, work to rule was quite popular when I was a lad.
I worked on a machine that blew a fuse, it took 2 days to repair as different maintenance men were required to open the fuse box, replace the fuse and to close the box up. I could have replaced it myself in 2 minutes but the unions wouldnt allow it
@@stevehayward1854 That's a problem in the U.S. as well. A friend of mine was a physicist working in a research institute and he was not allowed to change a fluorescent ceiling light that he could have done in 2 minutes because the union custodial staff had to do it (two weeks later).
@@ChickensAndGardening Thats how these communists work, by pretending to be worker friendly, ie protecting jobs, they throttle businesses and kill them, most union leaders are anti capitalism.
Why is it that no one wants to talk about the salary at the top. The workers are not the problem the top is.
No workers no production
The labor unions are not monopolizes. They are national and then unions have districts and locals. I'm a member of the IBEW ( International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) it only represents in the electrical industry. It's not a monopoly.
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International?
@@user-it7lf7kk8m yes, they are international unions. The IBEW is not just in the United States.
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Er, what am I missing here? The opening line contains "…worker at Volkswagen's Chattanooga plant in Tennessee in Texas in America" Which state is it? Texas, Tennessee, or both? Their only Texas presence seems to be designated as a regional office, not a plant.
😂That is something need to be clarified for sure. But in the remote chance of possibilities. The professional in R&D center can be unionlize as well.
The UAW executives ALL make over One Million Dollars a year in pay, kickbacks and benefits. When the UAW goes on strike and workers lose pay and benefits the UAW executive get FULL PAY. So who benefits most from the UAW ? EXECUTIVES - not the working members.
Exactly
It’s yet another example of the complete failure of rampant and unchecked capitalism. America needs to understand this.
Please cite your sources. Also look at how much money share holders and ceos at the Detroit 3 have made and compare that to the workers. Workers are understaffed, underpaid, overworked, have less benefits than they did 30 years ago, and can be fired at the drop of a hat in most states. Unions are the only answer to protecting the rights and lives of workers.
Are you in acid? There is multiple sub $25k EV models coming from VAG within 12 months. Automotive manufactring lines are highly automated, already. Including European manufacturers. It can be debated if Tesla had higher automation level compared to others.
Most automakers only have 20% of the labor for a car done by robotics. Last year Tesla was 80% by fixed robots. Now Tesla will start using humanoid robots at their factories this year, and later sold tom other manufacturers A regular automaker will be very happy with a 1 car per minute production rate (60 seconds) Tesla is now running at 1 car each 38 seconds, limited by human labor. Just try to imagine the car rate per seconds when humanoids robots start to work in the manufacturing lines.
@@EnriqueThiele Lol. You have clearly not seen European car production lines.
And Tesla will have a hard time keeping the workers, when they finally realize that company screws them $20-$25/hour every hour. That imaginary stock option bonus will never materialize to them, if the stock price does not go up four years in a row. Not to mention, that Tesla does not even offer stock options to the factory floor workers for example in Germany. They are only 'planning to do so'. And yes, 20-30% less pay per work hour there too.
Wet dream buddy
@@mikapeltokorpi7671 Is that why it takes VW three times as long to build an EV as Tesla? Also, selling a car for $25k doesn't mean anything when you're selling them at a loss.
Does management cutting wages by increasing them lower than inflation get any blame here?
Ive seen vw management get blamed for not investing in new production but rarely see the underinvestment in workers get blamed.
Stop putting shareholders and executives ahead of the people who actually build the products of your business, VW!
Spoken like a true simpleton.
Can't blame the workers for wanting better wages after this wave of massive inflation.
Yep! Soooo "higher production costs" assists with lowering inflation🙄
@@ianrundle5862production cost is 5-20% of most automotive companies. Do better than simping for the autocrats
I support auto workers and the UAW, and so should you (unless you’re a Billionaire)! Every worker should be treated and paid fairly. And the holiday issue at VW Chattanooga is real and documented!
More fool you.
Cost of labor for automobile manufacturing - 7%, while still significant, is nothing compared to service or financial industries, where the cost of labor is 25+%.
Tenesee is not in Texas.
Unions are in the business of representing their members interests when dealing with employers who are more concerned about their owners ever increasing need for higher profit earning as well as the leaderships need to satisfy their own personal importance. Its also important to understand that unions are very conscious about the need to safeguard their members future by not being overly demanding but instead reasonable in their discussions with the company’s representatives. No one is interested in the company going under or being incapable of making future investments.
Not much will happen in the USA before the November elections, apart from a lot of posturing by Companies, Unions, and Politicians. After that widespread automation will kick in and the workforce will lose thousands of jobs. When, and it might take a year or two one of the big three can work out a joint venture with a major Chinese producer the job losses will be in the tens of thousands. The American Industry at the moment produces poor quality products (Trucks excepted) at grossly excessive government subsidized prices and sells them through a ludicrously expensive network of parasites called dealers. Major re-structuring is essential, it will be painful, very painful.
they go to cheaper countries and again sell at high prices in usa and dealers are full of unsolded cars in usa
Tesla Berlin just said no to the union with a vote.No new start up will allow unions or dealerships in their businesses. The unions showed they are nothing but extra costs and troubles
It’s all over for workers on factory floors once robots are introduced. All competing companies will be forced to follow or fail miserably. Where will people find work or afford products made by machines? If governments and banks fail to address this we have very big upheaval coming to our societies.
The only justification for being the highest priced labor is being the highest skilled and most productive labor. If that doesn't happen, it's game over.
So, besides the UAW, will we get an UAR (United American Robots) ?
The concept behind unions is that companies should not be able to with each other by dumping worker conditions and wages. But Evans is right: this fails if companies can move production to Mexico or China.
So what conclusion should we draw from this? That unions are bad?
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Same old argument. Do we help workers protect themselves or do we allow management and technology to take over?
The same people who badmouth the UAW whine about workers not having good jobs anymore in Coalmining.
Maybe when truckers start losing their jobs due to automation, they might understand a little bit about protecting other Worker jobs, jobs that don’t pollute the environment and are losing to better industries.
Just know that every single manager if the shoe was on the other foot ie working on the ground floor would jump at union membership. Remember Scandinavian vehicle manufacturer's are union & those members have good wages, good work environment & happy lives.
good luck for tomorrow
They could pay the CEO less and you'll still be able to do it.
Electric motors are so much more efficient than combustion engines. Most of the fuels energy is lost as heat from the ICE. Electrifying everything is one important aspect of a sustainable energy usage. Fossil fuel dependency is the highway to global devastation and pain.
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Any added costs from unionized car manufacturing in Australia were off set by heavy government subsidies. It was the rise of Asian car manufacturing, a reduction in trade tariffs and small Australian population that killed local auto companies which where all foreign based anyway. The bubble burst basically.
it was uneconomic to build 30,000 cars just for the australian market. The OEMs certainly didnt want to invest in australia. It takes a lot of things to work in your favour to make cars, but any part that doesnt carry its weight certainly adds to its demise. In Australia's case, the cars stopped being compelling to buy. Something we now see with all OEMs globally. In some ways, australia was ahead of the curve, lol.
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@@andyfreeze4072Clearly explained, well done.
I don't see how any American factories can compete with China. Chinese labor is cheaper than American labor and environmental standards are lower keeping material costs down. The only way we can compete is to have Chinese level wages and low environmental controls. Short of automating everything and / or High tariffs the future of US Manufacturing seems doomed.
Been a UAW worker, worked in an auto plant, seen the toxic dangerous conditions first-hand: auto workers NEED a union in most companies. That said, union-mgmt relations are everywhere toxic, lead to decline of the companies involved. So those companies WILL roboticize ASAP, even more likely move as much to Mexico as possible. Mexico is a much less well-regulated (read: dangerous) place for labor.
What's the solution? Don't know. But I understand why Tesla is working hard to avoid unionizing. If the union were to succeed in somehow forcing it (political pressure), the US would lose Tesla: it'd move wholesale to Mexico. They'd kill their golden goose. And anyhow Tesla's workers don't want a union, have voted consistently to reject it. So long as Tesla provides sufficient benefits (esp stock options) & decent management, safety conditions, it appears unlikely the UAW will be able to unionize the place.
The big risk to workers long-term is robotics + AI. So I don't think you want to drive management to seek that any faster than they are.
Safety & Quality are at the heart of efficiency, which leads to increased productivity.
No longer likely SHORT TERM, and with AMERICAN and GERMAN labor.
But there is the XPENG synergy!!!!!!
Sam, I’ve worked at BMW MANUFACTURING for 28 years. There is a lot of chatter about unions. I don’t think they will succeed here. BMW has ordered Figure robots. So we’ll see.
The biggest laugh is buying a VAG and thinking you’re getting a quality vehicle that will last.
Both Unions (who fought for people to give all their work rights) and Employers need to be realistic about the Transition to new ways of manufacturing. If both are willing to embrace new technologies then they can manage the transition so that everyone comes out of it for the better. This is another reason why a Universal Income that people can live on has to be looked at...unless Humans who buy the products are considered redundant.
If you figure an employee with wages and benefits makes is $150,000.... With two shifts that position is $ 300,000 a year. In 5 years that position cost the company $1.5 million. Yep sounds like that pays for a robot. The bigger question is why they have any people at all
Drum Rear Brakes? Sheesh
At this point, the US troubles are far more profound than people realize. If the auto manufacturing plants unionize, they are doomed, if they don't, they are still doomed, but they may be able to extend operations a little longer!
Thanks for all your hard work Sam
My pleasure!
Speed-up has always been a goal of the bosses, regardless of the impact on workers. The question of quality is tied up with the degree to which workers feel *enfranchised*. If you're poorly paid, and overworked... and generally regarded as a *cog* by the boss... where's the motivation for *quality*. It's a fundamental contradiction of capitalism: benefits are not equally shared.
Businesses die if they don't produce profit, since profit is now a dirty word perhaps we should call it something else like not dying...
do you also want union mandated weed breaks?
Americans need to decide if they want cheap cars or an auto industry. They can’t have both.
It's the workers that create the wealth, they have a right to take as big a share of that wealth as they can get.
A career with legacy auto under the UAW won't last long.
Bring in the union, plant shuts down. It’s the UAW effect.
Regardless of labor cost, the big three have not innovated in manufacturing. Look at everything Tesla has done to streamline manufacturing with things like gigacasting.
So, Tennessee is in Texas?
VW ist doing extremely well with a 100% unionized staff in Germany since the beginnings of the company. Including a workers council that is part of all big company decisions.
They did well before they suddenly had to compete with Japan and, later, China. Now they only survive because of protectionism.
UAW takes care of members
Unfortunately if may be how to "turn a good job at VW" into a job at McDonalds. It's good for Mexico though.
❤Unions 🇺🇸
As human-like robots are the future in auto production and already are a growing force in that sphere I think that they, too, should be able to vote in these elections, viz. whether to unionise or not. That way, I am sure, the numbers would go against workshops unionising. That is important because I hate unions and I don't want to experience anger and sour grapes every time a workplace votes to unionise.
Go UAW!
If workers get the UAW, VW will n ever be able to compete with Tesla in the US. VW is in very deep trouble as almost 50% of their profit comes from Cina sales of ICE cars. That income is dissapearing pretty fast, same but at a slower pace in the EU countries. The union will put similar cost to VWv as Ford. GM, and Stellantis. Rivian will also get a cost advantage against VW.
1:58 ... there it is... the UAWs $100k/yr skill set GAIN protege... snapping a gweat big plastic "Ford" panel on the gate. Didn't even need a phillips screwdriver. Must take a masters degree for that.
I can’t believe those cars being built still have drum brakes! How far behind is America?
You do know that Volkswagen is a German company, right?
if a company is turning out billions in profit, shouldn't they reward the people that made them that profit? They sure reward board members & senior management. Not saying the unions are always great etc... but on the whole, I would say pushing for a fairer dispersal of the pie is good thing.
You might want to look at their financials. VW is in debt up it's eyeballs.
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Is Volkswagen literally in trouble or just metaphorically?
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Sure
Auto Executives should take a significant cut in pay if they really want to keep their company viable along with their stock options and benefits.
If all automakers would be unionized then US will have a level playing field in terms of labor costs...problem solved
Cheap labour is great for profits/exports but not so great for having a vibrant consumer market in a country. China is a prime example, they are over reliant on exports and real estate for driving growth and are having a hard time moving to a consumer driven economy...
No it will worsen by a lot.
Why would it worsen? US market is walled off by tariffs so what would be the harm of paying workers decent wages? Hell, they could even be able to afford the cars they build...
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Sounds like it's all going batsh!t crazy
Thanks for the intel. But I don't see any numbers that lead to the idea that supports unionization being a reason for vehicle cost or vehicle sales price increases. Show the numbers then show correlation. Otherwise, this is all just rich people whining and spreading lies. Eat the rich, make a better world. Though it is going to take a lot more seasoning to cover the stench of them. Sickness never smells good.
Vw has burned themselves many times over the years. This is not that much of a surprise.
Union, make America great again 😅
Corporate greed or unions I think is both like a bad marriage.Hurry up robots UBI is here.
Who buys a car when no one has a job and no money. Robots do all the jobs and people have nothing. Can't see how you square the circle.
You Have Problems, Not Issues
Somewhere, at some point over the recent past, someone decided that it was no longer acceptable for a person to say what he or she means; it was no longer acceptable to speak in precise, direct words. And what’s worse, someone, somewhere decided that we should all be offended when someone calls a problem a problem. Everything has to be translated into some sort of euphemism. I don’t really know why it started, but can we please stop referring to every problem as an issue?
An employee no longer has a problem keeping up with production; he has an issue. A child no longer has a problem behaving in class; she has an issue. A married couple in therapy no longer has problems in their marriage; they have issues.
Even bad weather now causes performance issues on the football field and traffic issues on the road; and a basketball player with a sprained ankle has an ankle issue. I’m not sure what’s so offensive about discussing traffic problems, health problems, or a sloppy football game. Is it just me?
The problem-that is, what’s wrong-with substituting issue for problem is that those two words are not synonymous-and no amount of being politically correct, disingenuous, or even condescending-yes, it can be condescending-will make it so.
An issue is a topic, such as The candidates will discuss the issues at the debate. That means that the candidates will discuss the different topics, or subject areas, involved in running our country.
A problem is something negative. A problem is something that needs to be solved. A problem is something that we try to overcome. A problem is something that we don’t want. There, I’ve said it. And it feels great.
An issue is not a problem, but I’ll tell you what is a problem: the grammatically incorrect trend of telling someone that he has an issue when what you really mean is that he has a problem. Call it what it is, and it’ll be easier to solve.
Anti-union bootlickers here in full force. I'm all in on a green transition but it has to benefit everyone. Autoworkers build those cars and they are owed a share in that success.
VW execs are very well compensated. As are Ford execs. The workers deserve their share of what they built.
If you think you can build cars without workers, off you go. But i bet you can't.
Still using drum breaks? I thought those went out in the seventies.
Drum brakes are only used on EVs because disc brakes corrode from limited use because regenerative braking
Drum brakes are actually great for EVs, have less corrosion than disc brakes when they’re not used much since regen braking takes the brunt of the braking, less unsprung mass, and less rolling resistance since disc brake pads tend to drag. With the added benefit that disc brakes are cheaper to manufacturer and maintain.
90% of braking for EV's just use regen braking not mechanical braking. One pedal driving
I don’t mind paying for union wages if it means employing my neighborhood and for a quality job well done. Skill labor isn’t cheap. Cheap labor isn’t skilled.
Police unions seem to get their workers overpaid. And police can cost their cities so much more when they screw up. Which isn't that rare.
I quiit believing in Ford products when they became a foreign auto manufacturer. I'd rather buy a Toyota that is made here in the states, or a Tesla.
UNIONS ARE GOOD FOR SOCIETY
Unions are good for unions.
The UAW has not improved quality in the BIG 3😂
One America employee equal three or four Chinese or Mexican employees. China now use robot to assembled their car. Don't forget electric and other bill are much cheaper than America. Car industrial will face the same fate as ship buildings industrial in America. 😂😂😂😂
Will Tesla robots be able to take care of the elderly?
Pretty sure Canada is foreword thinking in this regard by deploying efficient "MAD: Medically Assisted Death" solutions to the problem of caring for the elderly..
Yes. They will fetch and carry, do shopping, pick things up, help them up make the bed also monitor them and call for help.
Yes. They will be trained at all skills. Once a single robot learns an skill,it willbe transfered to other robots. probably Tesla will sell hmanoid robots with different "skills" packages.
It's actually called "MAID" (Medical Assistance in Death). It's Trudeau's solution to reducing the high cost of "free health care" in Canada. 😢
They should only implement these robots to fill in temporarily when someone's sick. They are on vacation retired, etc. When building new plants, they should keep them in the United States and to cut cost, add some robots.
It will create market pressure for increased automation and drive inefficient weak corporations that are infected with unproductive employees out of business. The problem of inefficient labor is self resolving we should be eager for AI make its way like a bloody scythe through every sector of the economy purging the weak and stupid from the work they really don't like doing.
This is exactly why i support unions AND AI. Anyone willing to work and learn can absolutely deliver great profits while being paid well but business requires a fairly high minimum standard of production per employee so in not too long i predict it will be the star employees getting great wages and AI bots replacing the lazy ones. If you want an example of exactly this my father owned a construction company in the 80s and he told me how he replaced half of the crew with the best tools given to his best guys. He paid 30$ an hour in 1981 and eas faster with less guys who were more skilled and better paid. AI is going to be the best tools of the future that the automotive industry will use
It was always a bait and switch just every auto maker who promises a car "from" some figure where it is very clear that "from" will get you a terrible spec vehicle. And where the "from" omits various taxes or extras, like paint. Or where "from" doesn't even materialize (e.g. Tesla cars). I expect the same is true for the ID.2 when it turns up.
You are wrong on your opinion about how a working contract. When we have a contract it shall honour boths sides. Your concern is to work in a balanced way, so you still have energy for your family. Many stupid bosses want you to use all your energy on their project, but you are not in family with them and any person who use to munch energy in short time will have to rest to repeat that.
I have done good new things several times in my life without being inhuman.
WAKE UP
Workers who are valued and treated well (well paid, safe working conditions, don’t have an antagonist relationship with management ) don’t need to unionize.
You underestimate greed..
@@ohger1 bro thinks people wanting to unionize are the greedy ones, holy
@@ohger1Aren't the greedy ones sitting in the management?
I think part of the high salaries is the low unemployment rate in the USA.
The automotive industry must offer things that others can't do.
Just an example, when you look at people working, quite a lot of them are more or less overweight... "Later on" you get all kinds of health issues, and unfortunately most of the issues are very well known.
"Unfortunately " I have worked in the assembly, so I think I know some of the (health) problems people encounter. As long as you have a incompetent management, you will have issues.
At Volkswagen Germany the UNION and politicians mostly run the company ...😮
Jeez bit of a night owl Sam?
Hello mate
If you join UAW you will be out of a job!
Says every oligarch
What are you talking about with the PTO? The non-union workers at automobile plants have their PTO burned. That's really trashy. You get offered a job and they say, "We offer 2 weeks paid time off per year." You work there and find out they make you use it when the plant is down for maintenance, instead of during holidays when your family has time off to get together. That's pure garbage.
Unionize, go out of business in the next 5 years.
Hahaha 😂. Volks Palolk!