I heard this morning that the Stellantis negotiations are likely going to be a complete shitshow. They’re already planning to move / shutdown several plants and it appears to be a major pain-point in the UAW negotiations.
Labor negotiations in the U.S. should be EASY for Stelantis. They’re Dutch. All they really need to do is say, “Hey, we’ll treat our U.S. workers just like our European workers, give them good pay & benefits.” I’m sure UAW would be more than happy to accept European quality pay & benefits
It’s not like companies are less greedy in Europe, they just know the culture won’t let them fuck around with Union busting.
If they think they can get away with it here they absolutely will.
You’re correct of course. I would think that the company that is already adapted to European workers and are themselves European, could see the benefit of saying, “these American workers would like more pay and benefits. Let’s give them those”, rather than “We aren’t as good as Hyundai at EVs yet, let’s shut down plants and lay people off.”
Why the executives can’t understand that giving a little bit to help others, helps them, I’m not sure. I guess greed and fear get in the way somewhere in their minds. If they would meet the unions demands, and especially if they would actually take the climate crisis seriously, consumers would be falling over themselves to buy those cars.
