UAW Files Federal Labor Charges Against Donald Trump and Elon Musk for Attempting to Intimidate and Threaten Workers - UAW | Uni...
The UAW has filed federal labor charges against disgraced billionaires Donald Trump and Elon Musk for their illegal attempts to threaten and intimidate workers who stand up for themselves by engaging in protected concerted activity, such as strikes. After...
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.