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Excerpts from an article today:

Autoworkers begin returning en masse to factories and other production facilities around the US today. The auto giants, with the support of state governments and the Trump administration, have pushed ahead with their reopening plans despite the uncontrolled spread of the coronavirus pandemic and widespread opposition by workers to a premature and life-threatening return to work...

The ruling class views the auto industry reopening both as a test run to gauge the level of resistance by workers and key to restarting the flow of profits for America’s corporate and financial elite...

Workers have widely shared the understanding that it is not yet safe to return to work. A worker at a Lear auto parts plant in Michigan said, “We have a Facebook group and have been talking about it. We sent a survey that got 200 responses, and only three people wanted to go back, just because they didn’t want to be stuck at home anymore...

The auto companies, the UAW and the government are also attempting to use extreme financial pressure, including the threat of losing unemployment benefits or permanently losing their jobs, to strongarm the workers back into the plants. The companies in particular hope to blackmail temporary workers, who receive less unemployment pay and have fewer benefits, key concessions given up by the UAW in recent contracts.

This was published today in what everyone knows is the most respected journalism source - World Socialist Web Site.:LOL:
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Excerpts from an article today:

Autoworkers begin returning en masse to factories and other production facilities around the US today. The auto giants, with the support of state governments and the Trump administration, have pushed ahead with their reopening plans despite the uncontrolled spread of the coronavirus pandemic and widespread opposition by workers to a premature and life-threatening return to work...

The ruling class views the auto industry reopening both as a test run to gauge the level of resistance by workers and key to restarting the flow of profits for America’s corporate and financial elite...

Workers have widely shared the understanding that it is not yet safe to return to work. A worker at a Lear auto parts plant in Michigan said, “We have a Facebook group and have been talking about it. We sent a survey that got 200 responses, and only three people wanted to go back, just because they didn’t want to be stuck at home anymore...

The auto companies, the UAW and the government are also attempting to use extreme financial pressure, including the threat of losing unemployment benefits or permanently losing their jobs, to strongarm the workers back into the plants. The companies in particular hope to blackmail temporary workers, who receive less unemployment pay and have fewer benefits, key concessions given up by the UAW in recent contracts.

This was published today in what everyone knows is the most respected journalism source - World Socialist Web Site.:LOL:
Just another crock of shit! The country needs to get back to work.
 

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Well fuck it is so financially rewarding to not be at work, who the hell would want to go back.
 

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God Bless the World Socialists! I hear that they have a new tag line:

‘Impoverishing one country at a time, over and over, for 100 years.”
 
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Well, if AOC gets her way we won't have to worry about buying Wranglers anymore with her Green New Deal. They will be banned. That would be an interesting poll question for the forum, how many Wrangler owners are socialist.
 

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Well, if AOC gets her way we won't have to worry about buying Wranglers anymore with her Green New Deal. They will be banned. That would be an interesting poll question for the forum, how many Wrangler owners are socialist.
You can tell how well these environmentalists think things through.....we've known for years that our power grid is aging rapidly and needs tremendous upgrades. How do you convert all vehicles over to electric if your power grid isn't up to the task? So if the power grid is disrupted, not only do we go back to the stone age but we wouldn't be able to get there anyway. AOC needs to relocated someplace where she can't be heard. Let's not turn this forum into political sides or there isn't enough popcorn to watch the exchanges.
 
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You can tell how well these environmentalists think things through.....we've known for years that our power grid is aging rapidly and needs tremendous upgrades. How do you convert all vehicles over to electric if your power grid isn't up to the task? So if the power grid is disrupted, not only do we go back to the stone age but we wouldn't be able to get there anyway. AOC needs to relocated someplace where she can't be heard. Let's not turn this forum into political sides or there isn't enough popcorn to watch the exchanges.
The grid isn't a problem. She says no cars, trucks, planes, boats or cows. Just trains.
 

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How do you convert all vehicles over to electric if your power grid isn't up to the task?
sheesh. Details. Details. What are you some kind of engineer?

the answer is easy: “we will do it the same way we will get electric 787 airplanes.’’ Simple.

/sarcasm.

i have a brother in law. Retired 35-years with Exxon. Went around the world with them. Lived in 10 different countries...... here is what he would say: “you want everything electric? Terrific! Get me a battery light enough for an airplane, a power grid capable of handling the juice, and about 20 trillion acres of land for the solar panels and you can have your plane fly........ as long as it’s not cloudy.’
 

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Well fuck it is so financially rewarding to not be at work, who the hell would want to go back.
No joke. I know people who are making more on furlough/unemployment than they did working - so zero desire to go back to work.
 

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Well, if AOC gets her way we won't have to worry about buying Wranglers anymore with her Green New Deal. They will be banned. That would be an interesting poll question for the forum, how many Wrangler owners are socialist.
She will be back to bartending and polishing the pole in the local cabaret come November.
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