Well said ✊

IDK, I've always looked for the family vibe wherever I've worked and have usually not been disappointed until later when the CEO makes some bonehead decisions or I get a supervisor that doesn't look out for me.

Yup. Hairs on my neck stood up as soon as I heard that

The best you can do is bring the care that you wish to be expressed to you to your career with you.

Psychopaths and Sociopaths do

Yes and no. This is democrat green movement garbage. They are forcing this stuff and not backing it up like you pointed out. Thus, climate change is a scam to push leftist policies.

But why not both

@@Tehnameless1 What benefits the workers, by extension benefits the Companies!

Why not? You think Tesla treats any of their employees well? FFS they wouldn't even allow OSHA to inspect their Nevada factory.

Yeah, electric cars are still bad though.

Exactly this. When you’re cared for by your union the employees are more productive and able to live without struggling.

Wrong, electric cars are selling more than ever.

@@communismisthefuture6503 Did you miss the first part of their comment? The ev didn’t fail executives failed their employees.

@@BakuganBrawler211 no

*!STRIKE!*

No, there are situations were getting something started in a field with allot of players already is such a high investment cost that government should be part of the investment process if needed. HOWEVER, with that the deal should be such so NATIONAL interests are upheld. Building and retaining a middle class is of national interest to retain good domestic demand for future goods and services. So it would be easy for the gov to add stuff that would enable a living wage or better and that Union deal was respect. If the company in question did not like that. Okay, lets talk to some Japanese companies then. They also make cars. Point is, as long as something makes a profit. There is always people interested.

I have no problem with taxpayer money being used to help small entrepreneurs. It should NOT be going to vast corporations that pay little to no taxes, however. Vast corporations like GM and LG.

@@coderamen666 That has nothing to do with the subject. Stop introducing your Communist ideas as if they were functional. You go and do nothing, if you want. I rather see a well regulated and functional economy that provides goods and services that people want, rather than a total command economy that decides what kind of plastic toy or car people "want". While having shops more worried about selling their really wanted wares on the black market for higher profits than the government dictate the "price" is. Middle class is not a "middle of something" or "average something". Middle class MEANS you have enough buying power for the basics AND a given amount more, in context of consumer price index, to use on "insert entrainment" or other "none essentials". However, just like my SURPLUS NATIONAL BUDGET nation has found out. You need work to drive the economy and unfortunately it is NOT feasible to have none working people (outside of children and to some degree pensioners) be middle class. It isnt just about "affording it", but the aspect of working people making more regardless of what they none working get and if the sums are too close. Few would want to work and that in turn would mean there wouldnt be enough economic activity (yes, its not a fiat currency thing) to retain a liquid economy as long as labor is really needed, which it is because Ai or robots will not do that work any time soon. Ca best one can do for unemployed is 60% of their working income and none job seekers must expect to live on less than that. When humanity gets to space, ai and robots do all the work and resources are in practicality, when government space transport handle the cost of mining and transport raw material (cost will be astronomical for any company, I think, but not for nations). Then we can talk about making middle class the actual "none working class" and the minority that have jobs the upper middle or "company runner" as a tier above that to ensure people wanting to be efficient with the resources provided, but until then. The middle class will be a working class.

@@TechBearSeattle that's right.

@@coderamen666 yes. Gross isn't it

These Corporations have the lobbyists/ lawyers that are the actual ones who write 99% of Legislation. These are the same Corporations who provide Tax Exempt contributions to Super Pacs and election funding for politicians. This is what happens when there are only two highly funded viable political parties. Neither party nor politician has the interests of the masses on their agenda. Democracy, like Christianity is a Greek Myth.

Need Gm Lordstown UAW 1112 shop chairman Al Alli re elected 70's-90's

Corporations only do the right thing at the point of a gun.

Hard paraphrase of idk who: Capitalism is ok when you tie it down so hard only its little pinky toe can wiggle. Regulations are the enemy of corporations but a most important ally of labor.

@@thoughtlesskills agreed. Look I'm not against businesses existing, some Leftists are and well you know maybe in the future but we can have that but now obviously that's not going to be possible, so I don't have any problem with businesses up to certain size existing and operating however I just want to put a set of hard-and-fast ground rules in place. This shouldn't be so hard I know my ethics and morals are not askew so there must be a problem with the shit that's going on and those who are currently making policy. Fukn crooks Hard labor protections Hard environmental protections Real oversight Maximum size limit (10,000 persons maybe) And that's it Everyone can go out and do as much business as they want provided these four requirements are in place

Home depots owner is known to be anti union. He gives money to coservatice PACs

God damn that's so gross

Way to go lot of ethics at Home Depot I can see. Hiring a cop fired for some kind of violence or criminality. Lot of standards they have.

Billion dollar company firing a single co-worker for not wanting to supply his promised healthcare. That's absolutely disgraceful. He should have tried to sue for wrongful termination.

Rich gotta rich. Poor gotta serve (and suffer). It is what it is. Stay in your lane. Social and financial classes are non-negotiable. 💪😎✌️

yep! one need only look at companies like Amazon or Tyson or any other company that has essentially a monopoly on not just the market for their products but also a monopoly on jobs in their area. This country has been on a race to the wage bottom since the 1980s.

The fact that gm can make such relatively cost effective EVs made me curious. The new ultium blazer ev starts like around $30k. For a nice car too. The only way to get that kind of pricing is with cost cutting, whether its in materials or wages

In my state they send students a letter saying we demand you repay your tuition because you unionized.

Excellent observation!

Yeah it is, but they want to act like the USA government when someone whistleblows them. They want to punish and secure their own future profits. We need to change the incentive structure so they don't want to do that.

I was fired for reporting my employer not following covid mandates. Office job, no windows, no masks, people coughing all over each other. I had an entire email thread with state lawyers looking into my employer. Nothing ever happened. Illegality doesn't matter when employers aren't ever held accountable anyways.

We need fewer cars (even electric cars) and more metro systems and high speed rail. They can create good jobs too. Car infrastructure is a big economic drain. Many roads are in disrepair because of the enormous costs. The Katy Freeway in Texas is 26-lanes wide and still transports dramatically less people than a typical 2-track metro system. Texas is planning a high speed rail line between Dallas and Texas. The U.S. was literally developed due to train networks.

@@barryrobbins7694 Amen to that! The US had streetcar systems in many cities 100 years ago, back when they were small towns compared to the giant metropolises they are now. The auto industry created shell companies, bought out the streetcars, and dismantled them. Despite being convicted of criminal conspiracy they received nothing but a mere fine. Decades upon decades of lobbying congress to create a national highway system and here we are in this mess today. Roads are going to make this country bankrupt if we don't switch to alternative forms of transportation.

@@dmike3507 Yes, car-centric Los Angeles once had the most extensive streetcar network in the world.

​@@barryrobbins7694Thank you for admitting that your centrally planned future includes a lower standard of living with decreased personal freedom of movement.

​@@gregorymalchuk272How does having a train actually impact you having a car? You act like the train is going to burst right through your house playing "La Internationale" to round you up to take you to the commie factory and not make a stop by the bourgeoisie Starbucks.

You forgot offices saying they are contributing to your 401k, but all of their AND your contributions go into their own investment account and only get transferred into your account when you quit, usually far less than you were supposed to get to begin with, PLUS no interest for you! If you have a 401k and you have never looked at it, look at it sometime...

Also remember, governments only understand one virtue: power.

Capitalism can be brutal. Everything has pros and cons.

​@slowanddeliberate6893 the curse of capitalism

CAPITILISM IS NOT THE PROBLEM!!! Sorry for the caps :) The problem is shareholder/owner capitalism. The idea that a businesses sole reason for existence is to make ownership money. The solution is stakeholder capitalism where the existence of the business is to make life better for the owner/customer/employee/neighbors/city/nation/environment. It was corporate raiders (today's hedge funds) that changed the way business was done in the 1980's. Since Stakeholder Capitalism at the time was a gentlemen's agreement and not law and corporate raiders were definitely not gentleman then it was easy for them to take over businesses using shareholder capitalism. Those practices were frowned upon but never illegal. Now you hear so many people say the reason a business exists is to make money. But how much money and at what expense to others? If the answer is as much as possible. What is "possible" What can I do to make it possible? Can I lie? Can I kill? Can I poison? Can I bribe? Can I change the rules? The market is a set of rules that people will except in business/capitalism whether they are written or not. Our laws are the written rules so they need to be updated to match the unwritten rules that the corporate raiders ignored.

Government admin aren’t trained to create efficient manufacturing processes, so a lot of money would go to waste (on committees and pencil pushers) and not to operators. How do I know? I was a public school teacher. I think it should be given to manufacturing companies but with regulations on worker pay and benefits

​@@SkySpiral8lol. "The efficiency of the free market" is a bold faced lie used to sell us the idea that corporations and CEOs deserve all of the money and tax cuts they get.

@@SkySpiral8they should be the incentives but they have required labor rights and high wages

As long as it’s progressives I don’t mind

True. Sometimes

True always

Clickbait 101

Pretty sure tailpipe emissions are by far the biggest contributor... but at least you're right about the solution.

This is all bunk

​@@dmike3507Not since the catalytic converter.

@@gregorymalchuk272they still pollute, don’t get it wrong.

@@dmike3507 from what I’ve read it’s about 12-15% now. Considering everyone has an agenda, who do you believe?

Or NAFTA residuals

Scotty Kilmer is a hack

Trouble is, his "critiques" against EVs have been nothing but nectar to the NIMBY bees. And MPU should know better than to have a tagline that will give those opposed to electrification more fuel. Why can't MPU just point to how these car manufacturers are repackaging old business tactics? Leave the EVs out of the picture.

​@@ElderStatesman Blood Batteries. The Dark Side Of Electric Cars. WION report. m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iKx4qdRendTUYaM.html So if they get bumped they burst into torrential flames so fast the passengers usually can’t get out live the 2 ill-fated late car reviewers from a auto magazine, they burst into flames just sitting & will also burst into flames if they get water logged…but it’s not about the environment or air pollution or anything else it’s about removing your ability to escape from the smart city the UN agenda claims all people must live in under their 2030 agenda. California is modeling what will be done to everyone else with the “must buy a EV, now not allowed to charge EV. ” It’s about removing the freedom to leave a bad situation & remain trapped in their mega city. I’m reminded of Judge Dredd & Escape from New York.

@@ElderStatesman Ya it bugged the hell out of me seeing electrocution in the title. Ya Scotty is old and a Libertarian. Now not the Musk and Tesla don't deserve a lot of criticism as Common Sense Skeptic and Thunderf00t have shown the insanity of perception of a product that is poorly made.

@@ElderStatesmanprecisely, this is standard corporate practice to union-bust, not provide proper training and safety measures in their production processes, and intimidating / strong-arming employees into silence that are trying to improve conditions. At the end of the day it has very little to do with EVs, it’s simply the new industry that is behaving exactly as old industries have with regard to employee rights, safety and compensation.

Yes. Child labor in Kia

Try "tools down!"

@@octothorpian_nightmare when he was explaining how bad the safety was. I was just like, wow.

This is why I'm concerned that we only have one person commenting, and some of what he's relaying is hearsay (e.g., Were the employees working in the cathode mixing department actually suspected of purposeful sabotage? It's possible, but not something that's shared from his perspective.). The thing to keep in mind is that this facility is just a scaled up version of an identical assembly plant that's been operating in South Korea for over two years now, so we have a direct point of comparison. To me, there are three separate issues here: unionizing, wages, and safety. The safety issues shouldn't be predicated on whether or not the plant is unionized. If these are actual safety issues, these problems would still be happening even if the workers were UAW making $60/hr, so if the assertion of this video is that higher wages would magically make these safety issues go away, I have to question whether there are ulterior motives. So yes, I agree. Address the safety issues. Also, yes, pay a decent wage and allow the employees to join the UAW. However, if it turns out that any of these safety issues were the result of intentional acts of disruption, terminate those employees who were responsible for cause.

When did this happen?

I'd be interested in hearing more about them. As a Texan, HEB tends to be something of a positive role model for the state, so hearing about their bad side would be nice once in a while.

I hope they stayed with it.

Recently; in my state a lot of TAs unionized

The unions often don't do their job! When I have been a union employee in the past, they did nothing for us, while driving around in really expensive cars! When a former manager was talking about working in the grocery industry, he mentioned while he and his wife, working in the same industry, went on strike - the funds ran out - they were losing their home - and the union rep just bought a brand new expensive car! Often, there is no incentive for the union to really care about the workers -

Yeah, a temporary future. Unions suck businesses dry and then when they are bone dry the business dies. That just happened to Yellow Transportation. It happened to the entire auto industry, which is why so many went offshore or down to Mexico. It's why manufacturing died in America. Unions ate a cost that nobody in a global economy can afford anymore. How American manufacturing keep up with Chinese manufacturing when they don't have Unions? And they pay workers less, and they don't have all the regulations that we do? Answer: It can't. Unions are relics of the past. They should've died long ago. Everything they fought for has been put into law. The only purpose they serve now is to soak the employer. If YOU don't like the company that you work for voluntarily then leave voluntarily. No need for a strike, just find another job.

Yep. Trains now please.

Sadly, the HSR from Houston to Dallas has been mired in bureaucracy for years. And from what I can tell, the company has gone silent. There was a single statement made in July 2022, and that was after two years of nothing. By all appearances, the project is dead. I was so looking forward to it, but car industry wins again.

@@Flamebard Implementation of high speed rail and better public transit is going to take a lot of persistent advocacy and government involvement. The biggest obstacles are the attitude that government is always bad and that car travel equals freedom. Where is the uproar over bloated military spending (National Priorities Project)? How is car travel freedom when a large percentage of a person’s income is devoted to a depreciating asset that just sits most of the time? Less expensive travel options can be made available, but it has to be done wisely. Public transit needs to be affordable, clean, safe, frequent, available at all times, and have appropriate travel routes. Transit systems also need to be separated from car traffic to prevent delays. The federal government developed the national highway system and no one asks if it is profitable. People can still own a cars, or rent one when a true need arises. Fewer people will drive, not because they are forced away from cars, but because it will be a better option for many.

@@barryrobbins7694 Oh you won't have any argument from me on this. I am 100% with you. The evidence is pretty clear that a well-functioning public transit system made up of trains, trams, separated bus lines, and decent bike paths is by and large worth it to basically everyone. I genuinely wanted the HSR in Texas. I was hoping that a privately funded HSR would show the public that we can have nice things and would kickstart a new era for transit. Alas, profits had to be X, public perception was poor, etc etc etc and now we lose another one.

@@barryrobbins7694 sadly public transport is far from affordable for 80% of the country.

It’s just one of many examples that demonstrates that new technologies, despite how they’re marketed to us, won’t improve society so long as they’re privately owned and used for profit. (there are many other problems with electric cars, such as the heavy environmental cost of rare earth minerals, and the promotion of EVs in lieu of more efficient and sustainable alternatives like mass transit, but that’s a separate topic from what this video is covering)

Just the lazy "the elites are screwing you" clickbaity crap I've come to expect from this channel followed by no substance.

@@breearbor4275 that's a very good and simple answer.

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Image. “Look at what we’re doing”! 🤣🤣🤣 While the company holds the country hostage with insane tax breaks. Everyone does it.

And we have billionaires making like 60k an hour.

It is still only like 80k a year

​@@seanhartnett79$60 an hour is ~125k a year at 40 hours a week, I think your math is a little off

Who's your union?

@@WindowsXP_logon_sound_25yrsago AFSCME

@@edvvardcash6109 who are they?

For now yes

Yeah cities dont have to be designed for cars. They can be designed to be walkable. But the damage is already done, it takes a lot of energy and politics to tear down buildings, streets etc and rebuild it to be walkable.

With EV prices being so high I think they are doomed for sure. This is just a hail Mary attempt.

@@gormenfreeman499true.

@@gormenfreeman499 and money, which isn’t free.

Yeah, that whole team is eyeballs deep in EV stuff.

@@ninj4geekFr

Also Kyle from Out Of Spec

​​@@ninj4geekThey were crucial to covering EVs since the 2000s. They're reputable and long standing independent journalists

@@toyotaprius79 Shame they have such a small subscriber base

We’re about to see a Democratic landslide in 2024 so it’s happening