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UAW throws marines out of parking lot
George Grapman wrote:
>>> Took less than a minute to go to the UAW site to find this . Don't >>> you think they make this information available to their members? >>> >>> http://uaw.org/uawmade/cartruck2005.cfm >> >> >> >> %%%% They left out that Hondas, Toyotas, VWs, and Nissans are also built >> here but not in "union" plants. ) >> > > Toyatas in California are built in a union plant. The NMMI plant in Fremont is a joint Toyota/GM operation. It was originally built by GM in 1954, a relocation from Richmond, CA. When the plant originally opened the UAW came with it down from Richmond. When the joint venture commenced, in the 1980s I believe, a condition was keeping the union contract in place. It is the only Japanese automakers' plant in the US that is unionized. Of course, Detroit wasn't exactly pro-union either, and they worked to undercut the UAW by moving production to right-to-work states and rural areas as early as the '50s. I don't feel like making too many responses on this thread, so I'll just point out here that the other poster who found the UAW link is right, this information is definitely made available to members - even a member like me who is in a non-automaking section of the UAW. And if I know this stuff you can sure as hell bet that the UAW workers in auto plants know what cars are union-made and which aren't. -- Robert I. Cruickshank roadgeek, historian, progressive |
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In article >, Robert Cruickshank wrote:
> I don't feel like making too many responses on this thread, so I'll just > point out here that the other poster who found the UAW link is right, > this information is definitely made available to members - even a member > like me who is in a non-automaking section of the UAW. And if I know > this stuff you can sure as hell bet that the UAW workers in auto plants > know what cars are union-made and which aren't. So how do the guys with the baseball bats that enforce these sort of regulations tell the difference between say, a made-in-mexico focus and made-in-USA focus? At one time the kansas city plant put a little sticker on the cars, but that may or may not last. But other US plants didn't mark their production that way. I doubt they keep a cheat sheet going back ten or model years to refer to. This sort of thing is an emotional reaction, not some sort of rational, planed, and researched activity. |
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Brent P wrote:
> In article >, Robert Cruickshank wrote: > > >>I don't feel like making too many responses on this thread, so I'll just >>point out here that the other poster who found the UAW link is right, >>this information is definitely made available to members - even a member >>like me who is in a non-automaking section of the UAW. And if I know >>this stuff you can sure as hell bet that the UAW workers in auto plants >>know what cars are union-made and which aren't. > > > So how do the guys with the baseball bats that enforce these sort of regulations tell > the difference between say, a made-in-mexico focus and made-in-USA focus? At one time > the kansas city plant put a little sticker on the cars, but that may or may not last. > But other US plants didn't mark their production that way. I rented a Focus in Denver back in September, a 2004 model, and it had the sticker saying it was made in the USA by union labor (I don't remember which plant, exactly). So the stickers are still there. > I doubt they keep a cheat sheet going back ten or model years to refer to. This sort > of thing is an emotional reaction, not some sort of rational, planed, and researched > activity. You might be surprised. UAW members who work in auto plants, along with many who are in the union in other industries, are very knowledgable about this issue. Since it's their career, they make it a point to keep up with production, new models, etc. The union's monthly publication, Solidarity, is usually full of info about all this. The memories about this are VERY long. -- Robert I. Cruickshank roadgeek, historian, progressive |
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