I worked for an international manufacturing company years ago, many plants being non-union and some plants were union. There were also international plants in South America and Asia.
If there was a strike at a union plant, there would be massive irrecoverable job losses at that plant. The strike would be resolved, but possibly 1/2 the workers will actually return to work. Production equipment can be (and was) unbolted from the floor and shipped to an overseas plant, or to a non-union plant. It wasn't coming back either. Gone is gone.
Entire product lines, up to an entire half of a facility worth of production equipment could be crated and shipped to other facilities. The product lines might take a few months to get back into full operation. One plant went from nearly 4,000 workers before a strike to less than 1,500 workers returning to jobs after the strike. Most of that machinery and jobs went overseas.
I worked for an international manufacturing company years ago, many plants being non-union and some plants were union. There were also international plants in South America and Asia.
If there was a strike at a union plant, there would be massive irrecoverable job losses at that plant. The strike would be resolved, but possibly 1/2 the workers will actually return to work. Production equipment can be (and was) unbolted from the floor and shipped to an overseas plant, or to a non-union plant. It wasn't coming back either. Gone is gone.
Entire product lines, up to an entire half of a facility worth of production equipment could be crated and shipped to other facilities. The product lines might take a few months to get back into full operation. One plant went from nearly 4,000 workers before a strike to less than 1,500 workers returning to jobs after the strike. Most of that machinery and jobs went overseas.
The UAW is on shaky ground already.