The “good paying green jobs” in Lordstown pay half the money the old auto jobs paid, and “we’ve had a couple of fires”.
United Auto Workers Call Out Biden’s Green Agenda for Cutting Wages, Showering Automakers with Billions
By JOHN BINDER 10 Jul 2023
The United Auto Workers (UAW) is going after President Joe Biden’s so-called “green energy” agenda for its wage-cutting outcomes while showering billions in American taxpayer money on the three largest automakers in the nation: Ford, General Motors (GM), and Stellantis.
As part of Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, passed last year, automakers are set to enjoy a massive windfall via tax credits for electric vehicles (EVs) made in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
UAW President Shawn Fain, as well as the union’s members in Lordstown, Ohio, are sounding the alarm on severe cuts to auto workers’ wages as a result of the Biden administration’s push to steer automakers towards EVs, enticing them with federal subsidies.
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Read more: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/07/10/united-auto-workers-biden-green-agenda-cutting-wages/
The video released by the United Auto Workers focuses on the impact on Lordstown, of an internal combustion vehicle plant closure followed by a new green factory, which pays a lot less than the old jobs.
The video also seems to claim the new green automobile jobs are dangerous – “there have been fires”.
I sure hope those workers got themselves checked out for exposure to Lithium after dousing any battery fires. Lithium exposure can cause acute and long term health issues, up to and including dementia like brain injuries.
UAW President Shawn Fain also criticised Biden’s subsidies for billionaires, which don’t seem to be “trickling down” to members.
This is a real challenge to Biden’s administration, for one of his allies to come out and criticise him like this.
Shawn Fain is not criticising the principle of Biden’s green transition. But he’d definitely like a lot more of that just transition Biden keeps promising to flow to his members.