I don’t know that it’s any wonder autoworkers went for Donald Trump in big numbers. They might talk a union line in the shop, but holy smokes.
Democrats have not come through for them on the assembly line. The job slashing at Stellantis, parent company of Dodge and Jeep, started in August.
Michigan union members blame Biden electric-vehicle mandates for auto-industry layoffs: ‘Want to slit our throats’
The auto industry is big business in Michigan, and a major round of layoffs is revving the election into high gear for industry workers in the critical swing state — who blame the Biden-Harris administration’s heavy-handed electric-vehicle mandates for the painful job losses.
Stellantis, which manufactures Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge vehicles, announced last month it will lay off 2,450 workers at its Warren plant. While industry jobs in the state have been declining since 1990, Michigan autoworkers explained to The Post why Team Biden’s green-energy rules are at fault this time.
It’s going to be a Grinchy Christmas for a fair number of American autoworkers, as the company is looking at shaving another 1100+ jobs from a facility in Toledo, Ohio.
…Following a disturbing trend of recent auto worker layoffs, auto giant Stellantis notified 1,100 Toledo workers, members of UAW Local 12, that they will be indefinitely laid off. These layoffs at the Toledo Assembly Plant, where they produce the Jeep Wrangler, Jeep Wrangler 4xe, and Gladiator, are coming after cutting jobs at Warren Truck in southeast Michigan, where they build the Tradesman pickup truck.
Additionally, workers at the Freud Street parts sequencing facility in Detroit, Indiana Transmission, and Detroit Assembly Complex-Mack are also facing indefinite layoffs. Stellantis is also trying to move the Dodge Durango out of the U.S. to a plant in Windsor, Ontario. The union has had enough with the broken promises, they said, and are ready to engage in strike activity to hold the company accountable to its end of the bargain. […]
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