The entertainment unions went on strike. Now they got a big pay raise and more benefits. In exchange, 17% of the workers no longer have a job. In California, starting on January 1, fast food workers will get, at the control and mandate of government higher pay and more benefits. Watch as stores close and most chains reduce employment.
The UAW went on strike for about 100 days, where people did not get paid. Now they have a big contract, more money and benefits. But, the results are coming in. GM is firing 1300 workers. Ford is cutting in half its production of F-150 trucks—more people laid off.
The unions wanted higher wages—and got them. But the result is that many are getting fired. When a company can not afford workers, they fire them. That is what the unions have done. Some workers get rich—others go on unemployment.
General Motors Laying Off 1,300 Michigan Auto Workers After Raking in Millions from State’s Taxpayers
JOHN BINDER, Breitbart, 12/15/23 https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2023/12/15/general-motors-laying-off-1300-michigan-auto-workers-after-raking-in-millions-from-states-taxpayers/
General Motors (GM) will lay off more than 1,300 auto workers across Michigan right after the Christmas holiday, executives announced this week. Those layoffs come even as GM raked in hundreds of millions of dollars from the state’s taxpayers through deals with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D).
In two separate state filings, GM executives said they are laying off 945 auto workers starting January 1, 2024, who are currently employed at its Orion Assembly Plant in Orion Township, Michigan.
The layoffs at the Orion plant are the result of GM’s delaying its conversion to produce Electric Vehicles (EVs) like the Chevrolet Silverado EV and GMC Sierra EV.
At GM’s Lansing Grand River Assembly/Stamping plant in Lansing, Michigan, executives said 369 auto workers will be laid off starting January 1, 2024, through March of next year. The layoffs come as GM ends production of the Camaro.
In January 2022, Whitmer announced a massive financial agreement with GM, which ultimately saw Michigan taxpayers footing an $824 million bill to have the automaker promise to invest billions in auto jobs across the state.
“GM’s $7 billion investment in Michigan — the largest in their history — will create and retain 5,000 good-paying jobs and enable us to build on our legacy as the place that put the world on wheels,” Whitmer said at the time.
As part of that agreement, GM promised to convert its Orion plant to produce EVs with a $4 billion investment while investing millions in the Lansing plant. The agreement vowed to create 4,000 auto jobs in Michigan.
GM CEO Mary Barra said at the time that the investments “would not have been possible” without Whitmer’s helping shore up taxpayer money to give the automakers big tax breaks.
