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They’ll be successful. Because of the UAW’s recent contract gains for the Big 3 automakers.
Maybe. If…and only if…the UAW’s inevitable price increase doesn’t cause a crater in demand for the American lemons.
For many years, American cars could survive on the notion that they were more affordable than their Japanese counterparts. Lower quality, of course (that was a given), but, even in the 2000s, it was reasonable for a 24-year-old on a <$30K salary to be able to buy or at least finance a new Ford Taurus, or Dodge Neon, or Chevy Impala.
Now those are unaffordable to that same age/income bracket, and there's no evidence that the quality has improved. American cars still depreciate much faster than Japanese/German/Korean/Italian counterparts. A five-year-old Ford or GM with 40K miles is almost certainly going to have major problems within 18 months.
Do you ever get nostalgic for the days when the average working-class person could still afford a modest car? Will those days ever return? Not given the current social and political priorities.
Honda and Subaru have already announced wage increases. That wasn’t done in a vacuum.
I’m still waiting on those pro-life politicians to deliver the wage and social changes required to enable the ability for either stay-at-home parenting or the ability to send a child to childcare without it being more expensive than a college education.
Yes, Joe, and Honda and Subaru also offer stronger brands because of the perception that they are higher quality cars. I’m not sure your point. There’s already greater demand elasticity–they’re more resistant to shedding demand with price hikes–because they have a better reputation than GM or Ford. It wasn’t always this way, but since at least the mid/late 1990s, manufacturers like Ford, Pontiac, Chevrolet, and Chrysler have been the working-class alternative to Honda, Toyota, Subaru, Volvo, VW. Fundamentally, they still are, but working-class wages haven’t increased commensurate with the prices. And if it’s impossible to buy a no-frills Chevy for even $12K, are the unions only sabotaging their market? Should we anticipate another bailout in a few years? If the predictably corporate friendly Democrats are in power, we should count on it.
Not sure what stay-at-home parenting and pro-life has to do with any of this, but aren’t our newly ethically aware corporations making unprecedented commitments to women to help pay for their abortions if they live in an anti-abortion state–up to and including transportation to an abortion hospital? So generous of them. They’ve decided that abortions are cheaper than maternity leave, daycare, or savings bonds to pay for that kid’s education.
Don’t worry about college education. Trey Parker and Matt Stone were totally right. It just makes you stupid. At the way things are going, the working-class will be the rich ones in 10+ years because they actually have marketable skills, while the college educated imbeciles will still be saddled with huge debts for their worthless degrees…while being incapable of changing a tire or sewing a button.
The point is, all automakers are going to face increased labor costs regardless of UAW affiliation.
The same union should not be representing so many auto companies.
Its a monopoly and should be regulated as such.
The UAW had a very unfair advantage in the negotiating process with the
big three.
Never going to happen.
Joe B, live within your means for a (1) income family, or make more money to afford the childcare and lifestyle you wish to live.
It is not government or taxpayer responsibility to subsidize your responsibilities.
Open your own childcare facility and provide the service for free, that would be a solution to your dilemma and help other people at the same time! Very noble.
Do you have the same attitude if you take the perspective of those future generations being needed to fund the healthcare and government benefits used by the elderly?
Because if you tell the kids of today “tough nuts”, you’re likely to feel the impact someday in the future.
It’s all interconnected when you think about it.
I mean, Joe, we could always euthanize the geriatrics and the folks of working age who are unproductive due to injury. Like they do in Canada (MAID – Medical Assistance In Death)
We already do in Indiana, Lauren … we steal the money intended for the care of the elderly and use it to build big shiny hospitals and pay large CEO salaries.
Lauren, please read up and don’t clutter a significant conversation, with off-subject inaccurate analysis. The subject here was/is: auto manufacturing and unions.
Here–go read about Canada’s assisted-death law and how it’s used in real time. It’s highly selective, it requires a lot of approvals and it’s not for everyone. But it is for some.
https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/cj-jp/ad-am/bk-di.html