I came here for this comment! “We’re a family that’s why we pay you garbage, expect the world, and will replace you minutes after you’re dead, you know, family stuff!”

Exactly we expect our employees to bend over backwards for us, like we're their family. But when it's what they can do for their employees? Just business, nothing personal.

@@jon9103 Absolutely. Always 1 sided. For example the “2 week notice thing.” They just walk you out almost immediately.

U-Haul does that. Terrible company with the lowest prices.

Yep. I have learned that the hard way.

Rivian is not owned or operated by Amazon

Amazon workers get paid more and got covid bonuses. Regular warehouse workers have to deal with the same conditions but less pay and many got federal minimum during covid. If you want to slave and make a load of money Amazon is the place to be. If you want to slave and make peanuts work in a random warehouse.

@@thomaspeng6805 Yes, it literally is part owned by Amazon.

@@thomaspeng6805Not WHOLLY owned by Amazon. They do own 20% and going up of the company which means that they have a big say in things.

@@thomaspeng6805You two fight like cats and dogs 😂

Also financially abusive.

unfortunately, that's not uncommon in america either

@@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr Thats why yoUwilLonlyHavEcatS (KAREN/

And mother.

That’s exactly what I said when they made that claim…

He is referring to the stocks market cap.. which is way way down this year., but they also have bozo’s amacon money

Value and probability are two completely different things.

Say you don’t understand valuation without actually saying it.

@@n4lgaming772 "Say you don’t understand valuation without actually saying it." Say something in a pointlessly condescending and unproductive way. Then do the right thing.

They went up 2020 a lot and stayed there, mainly due to the pandemic.

its all the tech they put even in the most basic “budget” vehicles Examples Toyota corolla, camry Nissan versa, altima Chevy trax, malibu etc

@@curedham2963Our Versa has roll down windows, old fashioned door locks and a 5 speed manual transmission.

​​​@@JakeobE Not just pandemic, a 40% increase in money supply during the Trump administration is a huge factor.

Good starting point for prices is 2019, pre-pandemic. Money supply increase thanks to our government's lack of a modern system to evaluate which citizens and businesses actually needed funds during the pandemic. No system in place, so almost everyone gets a few checks! Lax auto loan lending during the pandemic. Greedflation throughout the economy, but specific to autos, we had dealer markups with buyers willing to pay 10s of thousands over MSRP. Now the rubberband isn't stretched to the demand extreme anymore. Prices are and will continue to correct and many dealers will go out of business. I saw Rivian had a 10% layoff announced yesterday and Stellantis laid off all north american workers (hat tip to the UAW). Meanwhile electric cars have caused insurance prices to skyrocket. Banks have tightened lending standards and now require A1 credit and/or a significant down payment or have stopped auto lending altogether. The pendulum is swinging the other way now, but rank-and-file workers will bear the brunt while business cuts costs (layoffs) and looks for ways to be more efficient with remaining workforce, while investing in A.I.. It's a story as old as time itself. Workers always get the shaft...especially in America. It is by design.

Yeah, but union people will endlessly find things to complain about until it becomes ridiculous.

hows that boot taste?@@taylorc2542

The company is constantly in the reds...I am surprised that more of them are not fired...the company is trying to survive. Quit if you don't want to be part to make it survive.

@@taylorc2542 so not wanting to get killed or injured and be paid fairly is complaining?

@@thomaslong8448 without workers no co. can survive. have a heart why dont you.

@@boyblue3270I strongly agree

@@boyblue3270 The main advantage the US had was that after WWII most of Europe was utterly ravaged by two wars. The disadvantage now is that the US has severely stagnated while Europe and the rest of the world have had time to rebuild with lessons learned through the intervening decades.

Yup, Jidoka is literally the most simple system to implement into the production chain, legit let your workers understand the production process and their role and then if they see an issue shut their side of the production down to save on wasted material.

@@boyblue3270 stay mad redcoat

@@boyblue3270 salty redcoat

So you rather them sell an expansive car which prices out the vast majority of the population (loosing more money) thus bankrupting the business (ppl loose their jobs) instead of shareholders barely making money (their stock price has plummeted thus shareholders LOOSE money) and production continues so workers can get paid and the company can stay afloat longer to possible continue for the current staff. You seem to barely know how shareholders make money. In addition many rivian employees in the factory are shareholders due to their stock compensation. But hey not many ppl would research what they say b4 blabering bs

@@homieinthesky8919 you have drawn many conclusions from my comment that suggest you have a big imagination, because the logic fails to explain how such conclusions/connections could be made... Ps. look up in the dictionary 'loose' vs 'lose'

@@homieinthesky8919 their comment wasn't saying how it should be or that they would like it to work this way. It's saying it's how it's going to go & is working currently. You're not offended at what they said. You're offended that they're right about the state of the business & the pursuit of constant growth in profits.

@@johnw3772 dude. The company is a complete shit show and should be gone. Im just saying stating how cursing shareholders alao curses regular employees. I also am showingthat financially for most of the workers its better for this to happen instead of all of them being out of the job. The shareholders (executives, investors and employees) have all lost money and continue to do so. Im just stating the overal facts. You apparently couldnt understand that. Filing for bankrupcy gives the ceos and institutional inveators a gigantic paypout while employees get actual scraps. It quite litterally would still benifit the rich immensly in the company if they fall apart.

Those shares are barely worth anything. I've been there over two years and it's not even worth over $2k. That's laughable. And I have to wait another 3 years for those shares to vest so I can actually sell them. Do I think my shares are magically going to 20x what they are worth now in three years? No, not at all. Lmao

When it wasn't viable, the union bankrupted GM. Then the Obamanation stole the bond holders' money to pay the bankrupt union.

Mack only did that for near terms. Their future is all about AI, robots, and automation. Mexico could be in their sights.

My comment on history of union failure agreed by GM was deleted

@@artsmith103 YT has been sketchy the past few days. I've had a dozen comments just vanish into thin air.

@@yossarian6799 When the Tucker/Putin interview landed, YT was deleting dozens of comments.

Isn't Teslla the 1st valuable EV.....?🤔

Wrong Tesla is worth more than 50 times Rivian

Well, and you see, this is the beauty of not baking an incorrect statement into a video, because you're correct and I made a typo I can fix :D@er2088

Typical modern day reporting

It's not "reporting" it's an opinion piece to promote the UAW. @@shawnlocker5691

They make at least 3 different vehicles.

They aren't the 3rd most valuable auto company serious misreporting. Unless they are talking about that city

An electric delivery vehicle which is only sold to one company

This is not a "units sold" evaluation, this is an "investment made in" reference.

Even though Rivian loses 40,000 dollars for every vehicle they sell. Wall Street sees them as a multibillion dollar company in the distant future. Tesla doesn't have the funds to be the most wealthy auto maker in the world. The investors made them the wealthiest and they will be in the next few years.

Exactly.....,

Unfortunately I believe you. Lol

FEDERAL LAW REQUIRES 12 WEEKS of FMLA!!! GET a LAWYER!!!

You ever seen that video floating around youtube about a dude with a dent on the number of his rivian? The dealership wanted to charge 40 flippin grand to ‘fix’ the bumper….so he was left to his own devices in order to fix his truck. He got some dude with a heat gun to fix it.

I worked at ppg for 6 months and witnessed so many Osha violations. They just hire anybody at rivian, ex cons, addicts anybody. That's why so many damn accidents happen, half the fork drivers are high or on harder drugs because rivian doesn't test

True. I don't know how the government allows these

My brother works in a unionized Honda plant in Ohio…he loves it for whatever reason. LOVES IT.

Vast majority of Japanese automakers in the US are not unionized and while using TPS and other quality systems maker superior quality cars and trucks to unionized workers at unionized factories. Toyota and Honda do not have unionized workers .

UAW is great! Except for the fact that most auto plants in the US are going broke!

The only way we’ll get anywhere close to that is by striking and unionizing. People are getting fed up. We’re all starting to crack. What would happen to those profits if every worker went on strike for a week? They can afford to pay us all a decent wage but refuse to unless they’re forced. We don’t even have capitalism anymore. We’re moving towards a techofuedalistic society. Where technology will be used to bind us into wage slavery. We have to refuse. We all have to say no more. It’s the only way

Yeah. Adjusted for inflation using the cpi calculator, he was making $72.63 an hour 30 years ago. These UAW guys are a joke. They want primo money for low skill work. It’s literally color by numbers and you only have one number to color all day. It’s no wonder you often see UAW guys slamming beers and smoking weed in the parking lots on lunch. It’s a mindless job.

Tell me straight up you want the slaves back. Whatever it is you do for a living, if you’re making more than minimum wage and have any benefits you are getting too much! And when you are old and sore don’t you dare collect a dime of Social Security or Medicare! One more thing. The Bosses are who we work for. They most definitely don’t manage The Union!

Oddly, there's nothing normal about that factory.

Lol was thinking the same thing. I'm a heavy diesel tech and work exclusively in the field, if I hurt myself in any way in the course of my work day it's because I am being a moron and not using my brain correctly. I have one black finger nail because I was being a moron that day. Stupid is as stupid does.

Lol 80 an hr wtf

Robots will not buy automobiles ! Henry Ford learned this concept many years ago .

I agree. One problem is there are always more problems than people available to fix them.

Bro, I saw the process when line calls would happen, they send the parts to PPG and have crackheads rework them. The engineers don't give a shit about the parts or how they work. There was 0 communication between the two companies, and they lost 1 billion dollars in 4th quarter and laid off 10 percent of management positions

I was going to say the same thing, I didn't think that central Illinois was now a part of the south. Even though a surprisingly high proportion of the people who live there speak with a drawl

@@charlesjenkins8506 Also it's about one of the most union friendly states in the country.

Not even close. Literally as high north as a state can get

As a black person who works here I agree. They make me do the same job every single day but anytime anybody else does they whine and complain that the job is tough. The hardest job on the line. And they slave me at it everyday. My group lead got fired so now I’m sure things will change

Were in central illinois, its about 120 miles south from downtown ​chiraq. 90 percent of the employees come from other states or chicago or theyre illegals. @ISureDont

Well said!

Wrong. Unionize.

The engineers might not have much say in how things are implemented. Often times, it is the management that have the final say in how things are to be done. Just look at Boeing and their 737 MAX fiasco.

worker safety nets? like the ones china has between buildings for iphone slaves trying to jump off the roof? you have an iphone right?

​@@SgtJoeSmith Where is Apple from? Who let Apple make phones in China? USA, USA, USA

@@Moses_VII FIFY: "Where is (insert name of US company here) from? Who let (company name here) make (product) in China?" Global capitalism and unregulated private enterprise brought us this reward, mostly started by Saint Reagan.

@@SgtJoeSmith…ask yourself who let apple make their products in china. Go look up the answer.

⁠@@dudeonbike800…it’s saint reagans fault? Oh man, then why didn’t democrats fix everything when they had the house and senate for 2 years? Why didn’t your liberal uni-party make everything ALLLLL better?

How do you think the condition are at the normal plant for their employees? I worked 10 hours shifts on edv line for 8 months. Unfortunately had to file my first work comp claim because I had to have restrictions to not be placed on the seat pedestal install. I'm 5 foot 127 lbs. The part weighs almost 40lbs. Lifting from a cart that for me is almost chest high. For 20/25 vans roughly before break. Needless to say my lower back is shot now. Oh and they fired me 30 days after another incident. I could go on and on. It sad because it could of been an amazing employer

I think the condition of the was plant hectic. It felt like a bomb just dropped and everyone was just scrambling around. I feel for you, it sucks that they made you do that and without any mechanical assistance to lift the parts to prevent you from being injured.

@@MarlosCartinez this constant scrambling was/is company wide imho

@@TheoPhilpot you are very correct. Its half informed, half baked ideas throughout the whole company

@@MarlosCartinez and from experience when people have good ideas that need to move swiftly, they’re delayed in perpetuity by layers of middle management

I wouldn't want to use a phone while using a forklift. It's dangerous and too distracting.

@@dancarlton7973 nah it's fun

Tesla safety is pretty horrible too

Happy workers produce more so it’s feasible. Electronic vehicles are currently unsustainable anyway. They keep pushing it but the grid can’t handle it. It would lead to more fossil fuel emissions anyway from increased electricity requirements. Lithium mining is super destructive as well. All the chemicals they’re dumping are terrible. It’s not a solution to our current problems yet it’s being treated as one because the ones that created the problems have a vested interest in selling the solutions as well. The only ones benefiting from all of this are the ones that hold the keys to production. We need cars to get to work but no one ever asks why we have to work. The whole system is broken and they tell us it’s our fault.

Oh good, more Chinese plastic crap in the US.

Allow me to speed run ur journey to the truth: Capitalism. That's it. The Federal Reserve is just one of MANY banking institutions that are beholden to the global economic system we call Capitalism. Ya wanna find the root of 99% of the problems we have on this planet? Just follow the trail to where the profit is being made. That's it. No shadowy figures in a smokey backroom pulling the strings. It's just the maximization of profit by ANY means necessary motive.

The factory is not in northern Illinois

Where are the young just out of high school youthful workers ? Did rivian hire old fat and sickly workers cuz that's all I see in this video

I think you’re referring to Nikola Motors. Rivians are all over the place here in Arizona and they’re thriving too. This video is likely propaganda, sponsored by “the other guy”. Proud to have an electric truck manufacturer here in Arizona and my goodness they’re great looking too! This video had me uncheck that little bell… this channel should try to focus on the positive and ground-breaking achievements accomplished by Rivian rather than hyper-focusing on their trials and tribulations… Let’s not forget the great bail-out of the petroleum-powered vehicle industry not too long ago. Remember when ALL of the major auto manufacturers in the USA needed a hand-out??? Folks… try to name one other electric truck and SUV manufacturer who is this far ahead of the competition. This is some poor journalism if you ask me. They outa look into the electric vehicle company pushed by Heavy D Sparks and why they’ve failed to bring a vehicle to market. What’s up with Nikola’s CEO??? There are plenty of bad electric vehicle manufacturers out there, but Rivian isn’t one of them. Something is amiss with this “reporting”.

@@paraglidingprospector - I sincerely wish Rivian a great success. Thanks.

@@rogerbec5766 Same here! Hope to be able to buy one someday too. I like @JerryRigsEverything on KZfaq. He compares the electric Hummer to a Rivian, with a fully-loaded trailer, and in the snow too. He uses the Rivian to haul the Hummer and the other way around too. 🤣 Spoiler alert: he likes the Rivian a LOT.

What’s wrong with their products? My neighbor just bought their truck and first I’d heard of them

They make some of the best vehicles in the US today and have the highest owner satisfaction rating of any automaker.

I'm a very happy owner. The truck is great

Decent design. Quality materials and parts. How those parts are installed is a completely different story. All manual processes that aren't set up like a factory is supposed to be, equals parts constantly being banged around and very rough installs. I can't imagine it's great for electronics to get banged around like that and I suspect that will lead to quite the increase in warranty repairs being done on "defective" parts.

Bro their staff is a mix of ex cons, addicts, out of state and illegals. It's not the 'good working people of normal'. There are some people from normal but 90 percent of the staff is not from this area and they do not give 2 fucks about their jobs

Yeah tell that to tesla who sells 2 million cars a year now and never unionized

@@adam33555 Also, the worst reliablity of any vehicle on the road. Tesla is a piece of shit, hell they can't even get the paint to match.

Yes it will.

@@travisolander4749 right, and they are doing so well now. 😆

HELL YES LET'S MAKE CARS OPTIONAL!!!!!! Drivers win too because the only people who are on the road are people who need or really want to be on the road!

Not everyone wants to live on top of each other in dense cities. I like my yard space. I also like the freedom and comfort that comes with car ownership. It's also difficult to walk or bike in freezing Temps and snow on the ground.

@@KingJon513 Cars won't disappear, you just won't be forced to buy one to access basic necessities like groceries, education, etc. Walkable cities aren't a ploy to turn the world into a globalist dictatorship, lay off whatever you're snorting.

Suburbia is subsidized. Car-centrism costs America more than 4 trillion a year.@@KingJon513

@@KingJon513 thats the best part! We both get the freedom to choose. You would never be forced to live anywhere you didn't want to. Driving on roads for you when visiting the city would be less congested and traffic less dense and annoying because people like myself would prefer to not own a car if I don't need to because of the cost. That means someone like me won't be on the road for you to deal with in terms of traffic. I have bus stops close by but no buses service them. I want the actual option available to have viable and reliable transportation without requiring a car like in Japan.

Rivian is loosing boat loads. Titanic size boats

@@johnsutherland7561 Good

Then the same applies to the workers, yes? They should also try to make as much money as possible and use whatever tactics possible, from walk outs to factory takeovers, to make as much as possible.

@@Bob-bs9ok I agree. Now, I'd like to see a job market where these things were not necessary because people were negotiating and working together. But that is not how it is, so I am totally in favor of employees doing whatever to leverage more pay and better working conditions.