This Could Revolutionize the Auto Industry
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- Опубліковано 6 чер 2024
- Volkswagen workers in Tennessee could win a union at a non-union car company for the first time in decades. This week, they vote on joining the UAW. If they win, it'll change the course of history and set the American labor movement on a new path.
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You'd think for a company named folk's car would already have a union...
Well, they also have a history of preferring only certain "folk"
@@unoriginalname4321😭😭😭
@@unoriginalname4321yep that
Well, they have, just not in the US (because there was heavy opposition when VW wanted to find a mutually beneficial agreement to bring UAW into this plant in 2013).
Because only the land of the free would not want a union that allows for more freedom
Without its workers, Volkswagen would be nothing. Unite!
Without us workers, the entire planet would be nothing! Socialism is not only possible, it's in the palm of our hand. All we have to do is wrap our fingers around it.
ahh yes.. without those laborer's, who would be designing the cars, machines and whatever else is needed for them to assemble them...
@@FJB2020those are also workers
It goes both ways.
VW has supported unionization from the beginning. The workers were not "fighting" the company to get a union, they were fighting America, the state and other businesses meddling.
They won! The first car union in the South since the 40's!
A lot of lorry & school bus plants in the south are union like the one where the Shawn Fain's predecessor came from & there are Detroit three plants in the south that are union like Ford's plants in Louisville & GM's plants in Tennessee, Kentucky & Texas.
"BuT uNiOnS wIlL mAkE tHiNgS cOsT mOrE!"
Things already cost more without unions.
That’s due in a large part to more consumption and less production. We have been handing out more and more money each year for people to sit on their buttocks yet still have the buying power of a common worker.
@@EMan-cu5zo And where exactly are you getting this information or have you just been regurgitating spoonfed nonsense from incompetent leadership you shill.😂😂😂
That's not logic! " It's bad already so let's make it worse"??
@@VinceroAlpha common sense and basic understanding of economics.
@@EMan-cu5zo Both traits in which you severely lack. At least you’re honest about it.👍🏿
The people united will never be defeated!
I'm really sick of companies pocketing billions while screwing over their workers.
Then they should just stop running them.. Without them, you don't have jobs.. Period.. and it does go both ways.. Without workers, they have no company to run, but there is always workers...
The employee chooses to work for them. I agree that many if not most companies try to get the most bang for their buck just like people buying things. The pay gaps is where I find the problem. The head of a company many times makes more in a hour than the employee makes in a year. Leadership roles obviously deserve more pay but not to that degree. At the same time nobody forces anyone to work somewhere, like the guy said if you want to get something done you have to put in the work. That is more of a saying for someone who wants to create something from nothing not play politics in a job. I think the pay gap is the problem whether it means raising wages for the people who work for the company or lowering the wages to offset the absurdly large pay gap the corporate workers get paid. I personally believe that lowering the wage of the people on top would help people the most. When these workers demand a pay raise without producing more than they did before that just creates higher prices and the increase in pay will effectively do nothing. Also if the company lowers the top of the company’s workers they will find better offers and the company will have crappy leadership. It’s a pain in the ass world we live in. The best option is to work for yourself. Then you can’t point the finger at anyone but yourself.
@@FJB2020 What point are you trying to make? Sure, these billion-dollar corporations provide a lot of jobs but at what cost to their workers? They aren't paying them enough to live. They get injured routinely, have to put a decent amount of their hard-earned money toward rising healthcare costs for insurance companies who will try to get out of paying claims left and right, they work long hours with short breaks and have to live with the threat of "wage fraud" punishment looming over their heads (all the while they themselves suffer from wage theft by the top of the company), and they don't get paid anywhere near what the CEO makes despite doing the most of the work. I understand that companies are essential to the job market but what they're doing is just plain disgusting. If they treated people fairly and like humans, we wouldn't have to unionize. Your comment ignores the entirety of the situation.
As a fellow working class I hear you and I hope this sentiment grows across the country.
Then....we can unite on common economic grounds, organize and COLLECTIVELY take *democratic* action
- Vote in all those that represent the economic concerns of the people
- Begin creating PUBLIC owned or nationalize critical industries
- Transfer all the Socialism away from mega corporations and their shareholders i.e. tax breaks, bailouts, exclusive contracts and pass some of those tax breaks to small/medium local businesses so they
1. help pay their workers living wages
2. they can better compete against corporate monopolies.
There is a lot WE can all do when we unite.
"The 1% are powerful, when the 99% are *organized* and *prepared* to fight they (WE/US) are way more powerful" ~ Bernie Sanders.
@@FJB2020hahhaha
This is so important for North America as a whole. My industry isn't related to automotive at all, but all these victories feel like they are giving existing unions more power too!
Which is bad..
You should join forces and start a company that creates competition for the one you work for. That is the best option to get ahead. We need more production not necessarily more money. The more we produce the cheaper things become. If we just raise wages yet produce the same it just raises prices therefore you make no progress.
@@EMan-cu5zo prices are going up regardless if you didn't notice. These companies don't "play fair"
@@swagtrocity nobody plays fair especially if the rules aren’t enforced. Monopolies used to get broken up, that doesn’t happen much anymore. Look at Google, Microsoft, Amazon and many more. They simply buy out their competition or they will drive them out of business because they have the ability to lose money over a short term so everyone flocks away from the starting business and bleeds them dry.
The reason why these companies run to the south is because they know in the north east, and the Midwest the unions are strong but weak labor laws in the south allow them to take advantage. The only way to fight back is to stand together. I’m pro union. I’m for the union let’s go union.
Yup. They're trying to pay their workers less while selling the car at the same price. The UAW wants to make sure they can't run to the south to escape labor rights.
Guess what? I'm not pro union. Let's go Br**don!
@@dancarlton7973 You're an idiot. Fact is when people make better wages more gets invested in the economy. Union workers have better benefits including retirement funds.
@@dancarlton7973Congrats on the willful ignorance. Enjoy your "right to work" for lower wages and few to no benefits while the CEO (who ONLY has to make sure shareholders are happy) gets that money workers should get and benefits. Gods you guys are dumb AF!!!
That’s exactly right! UAW retired. Unite, organize!
Solidarity from Australia! United you bargain, Divided you beg!
Image being a Mayor elected by the very people voting /wanting union representation and then maligning the union because it’s more important to protect the interests of VW and not your constituents. This world is f’d up!!!
If you live local, vote local. Spread info about what local politicians are doing & VOTE !! The US used to famous for organizing against injustice & evil. What happened ??
But the politicians never malign the fire and police unions.
Without workers there are no Millionaires and Billionaires.
VOTE UNION YES
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Solidarity with these workers. Keep up the work, More Perfect Union
Unions bring dignity to workers.
Unions ship jobs overseas... unions are why Audi built their plant in Mexico vs. building here for fear of unionization...
Yeah but VW management would rather cheat and lie. See Diesel Gate.
@@FJB2020the companies say they and yet employment is at. Record high.
@allergy5634 That's not true as data shows year over year auto manufacturers under UAW are cutting jobs.. you can't keep paying people more and more without making drastic staff cuts.. and the shift to EV is even worse for American jobs as most if not all the work can be automated..
@@allergy5634employment is at record high? Do you mean unemployment?
Boilermakers have to strike a deal with Honeywell in a year or so would be nice to see something on that
Lesson to be learned.
You won a landmark victory. Be proud of it.
But be no complacent. You won the battle , there is still a war to be fought.
Monterrey, Mexico is not far, and robotics are encroaching on your line of work. The plant in Monterrey is overwhelmingly big. And their pay rate is a fraction of what you earn.
So make sure , from now on, that every vehicle rolling out the assembly line matters. Germans are obsessed, consumed by perfection. Be your own German in your blackness.
From a guy who grew up around an unionized VW Plant in Sao Bernardo do Campo in Brazil. And seen it decimated from 40,000 workers in the early 80’s , down to 6,000 nowadays.
Hoping for the best. You all earned it.
Hard working Americans and America coming DEAD LAST on the list of a FOREIGN company doing business in our country. This is class warfare. we need to stand up and take things back
In Germany, the homeland of Volkswagen. By law, all their workers are unionized. I don’t see an issue here in the states
In the US and UK, unions have been demonized since the Reagan-Thatcher days. That's why there are issues in the States. I am glad to see that changing with Millennials and Zoomers.
The issue is capitalism
@@RocketGator05 UNFETTERED capitalism.
@@kateoneal4215 the goal of capitalism will always be profit. We need a system that prioritizes people.
@@Comrade-Canuck Yes. I'm thinking how a hybrid system works so well for China and Russia. Necessities are communally supported; most others are capitalized and unionized.
That all those corporations moved the plants to other countries with cheaper labor as soon as they got the chance shows how they'll squeeze us for every red cent they can. Unionizing is a first step to employee ownership.
Unions are WHY they shipped overseas... they litterally priced themslves out of a job..
Loving this series. It’s really good to be reminded that yes, shit might be bad, but people are doing stuff about it.
Normalize worker coops and labour unions. Workers make America run, workers should run America.🏴Ⓐ🇺🇸
"The 1% are powerful, when the 99% are *organized* and *prepared* to fight they are way more powerful" ~ Bernie Sanders.
I've never had anyone explain what it is that the C-suite people do that's thousands of times more valuable than the workers who break their own bodies to manufacture the product. Why do they feel like they deserve bonuses larger than some workers' entire salaries?
They organize everything. The larger the process the more organization and planning that is necessary. The C-Suite are also workers too.
Entitlement and envy are just a poor person's form of greed.
@@seriouslyshortofnormal925 they organize fuck all. They are just part of the PMC
@Blackatchaproduction
I get that you're very emotional about the subject but the assertion that the C-Suite does "f*ck all" just isn't true. Pick a top 100 corporation on the stock market, go on their website, and just peruse the statement of work for any C-Suite employee, because no corporation would be paying them a salary to do "f*ck all" and it's irrational to believe that corporations screw all their workers except for a select few.
And what does PMC mean?
@@seriouslyshortofnormal925I agree to a certain extent. Many make in a hour what the worker makes in a year. The pay gap is ridiculously huge. Yes they deserve better pay but to that % of difference is where I disagree. Most of these CEOs didn’t start the business they just pillage it.
@@EMan-cu5zo
The average CEO in the fortune 500 makes around 250k a year.
It's only a very tiny minority of C-Suite employees that command such a high salary. Even then, there are so many employees at these corporations that reducing the pay to even the average wouldn't affect the workers in any meaningful way. I remember a study the did on the Waltons, the owners of Walmart, and they took the profit and wages to zero for everyone at the top and distributed it evenly among the regular workers: the grand result was something like 38 cents an hour raise.
It's not a zero sum game, and hating the people that employ millions of people is counterproductive. People take a lot for granted when they spew bigotry in the name of their own greed and entitlement, like the fact that their job even exists in the first place. A lot of humanity needs to honestly confront the truth that they're really not all that valuable, myself included, and try to find happiness and contentment in how relatively easy life is when compared to just a century ago because people seriously lack an honest perspective.
WE NEED TO UNIONIZED AMAZON DELIVERY DRIVERS they abuse us drivers way to much
They definitely are highly micromanaged. They are tracked constantly and have a camera watching them everywhere they go pointing right in their face. I wouldn’t want to work somewhere being so highly monitored. I am sure it’s for insurance savings for the company due to everyone love to make up lawsuits that are bull crap and many workers just suck so bad they shouldn’t be there in the first place due to laziness and other factors. I think people should be paid on productivity not a flat wage myself.
I was working for a small electronics company and I was always picked on by the new (real) nasty boss, Yell at me a lot (in front off the other workers), he made mistakes and blamed me, I got crappy pay hikes, I gave him 3 months notice for a week off, and he never did sign the form.. Near Xmas he told me that he couldn't let me go (I already paid for the trip).. I was told that I talk too much (Not true), so in a nut shell I was abused by him (For some reason he hated me) and in the end (After 8 years) I told him that he can stick the wire cutting job up his ass and I walked out. If a union was there he couldn't do any of that to me..
This is the year baby!!! Unions are coming back strong and we are here to stay!!!
Hope not
@@FJB2020 ⬅ paid corporate union buster.
Coming back strong? Naw...It may lead to making less money or worse, jobs shipped overseas.
@@dancarlton7973 I seriously doubt my old unionized job I retired from 12 years ago working in the federal prison system would be outsourced overseas . 🤣 Too bad it is not always about money but more often than not it is the working conditions that put AMERICANS in danger. Where is your patriotism and support for making America great again so AMERICANS get safe work environments.
@@Detrumpificator4377 Not really.. Just not a moron who thinks they need a union...
When executives say: "Sales up 20%, profit up 35%" guess where that extra profit that doesn't come from sales comes from.. big part of it is probably workers getting screwed.
power to the people
A system without unions would be more efficient but companies stomping on the goodwill of workers and taking advantage of them show that there isn't any other option.
More power to the unionised workers!
Well done, Chattanooga!
Let’s go!!!! Union workers need to unit across the board. Only way we can compete with big business!!
I pray these hard working people get the respect they deserve.
So inspiring!
Keep up the amazing content 🔥💯
So glad you made a video about this.
I hope they unionize. Union strong 💪🏻.
From what I have heard, leadership treated the vote fairly. They even had notices of the upcoming vote. With this outcome, expect the leadership at the next plants to be less accommodating.
Thank you for the hope of the future
This is AWESOME! Please vote and organize otherwise the Rick will get richer based on the hard work of the workers. Keep up the fight!
How does a company that lied about car emissions get any say in anything. The people at the top should be in jail.
They ALL lied about emmisions.. only VW got 'busted' because... they wouldn't play Union hardball..
@@FJB2020 No, they got caught. Software dumps from VW ECUs proved it. No other automaker was doing it at the time.
@@rtmpgt bullshit...
Diesel car culture was strong in Europe , where refills are quite more expensive. Diesel cuts into the already expensive fuel bill
And there is no cheap unleaded there. It’s blue gas at 98 octane. No ethanol mix either.
So the German Brass misread the US market and thought they could get away with it by covering up emissions. After all, their American counterparts were cheating CAFE mandates with Trucks and SUVs.
Also, it is a well known fact , at every other State , some certified fuel emission testers found ways to cheat around emissions testing. When they could not generate repair orders on failed tests , yiu could get a pass by kicking up some extra , so they could fudge testing. Hence so,e States revisions to the newly revamped 5 Gases , now including Nox testing.
The Germans were not alone in it. They just got caught. Lord knows who and what for blew the whistle.
@@rtmpgt Yes they were...
Praying for you all💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
Love the IBEW jacket! Solidarity forever!
To what that guy said about being first, that is a great motivating catalyst for others and a monumental moment, but we ALL win when we unionize, regardless of who's first. Unionize now, thank yourself later ❤ ✊️
Union power is preferable to minimum wage.
Every time I watch one of these union videos, I get emotional. I'm just so proud of them and so excited for change ❤
Yeah, you’re going to get your change all right, when all these jobs go to Mexico or bring a robotics, with the robotics, you don’t have to worry about them coming in drunk or stoned
@@marshallforeman2051or just paying even more for items that already cost to much.
Yea, those Volkswagen employees got their Union
Great video.
Power to the people!!
Layoffs shorter working hours, and fewer employees, what’s known in the industry as…… WIN, WIN, WIN !!!!
Way to go👏👏👏👏👏👏
Union YES ! power to the people
Corporate executives only captain the ship.
The 1% shareholders behind the scenes are the ones that own it and thus own the means of production.
*Organize, Unionize, Socialize* Socialism is the most important as it takes away the 1% shareholders' ownership.
United We Stand
Solidarity forever!
Solidarity with ALL workers is the only true way forward.
We must replace the "I Got Mine" attitude of this country, with an assurance of "We ALL Get Ours."
We've been sold a bill of goods, and false gods, built on a system of Greed & Selfishness.
Past time for real change.
Entitlement and envy is just a poor person's form of greed.
Spoke like a real Upton Sinclair. Nicely done.
Awesome!
You guys should look into W. L. Gore & Associates and their PFAS pollution in Cecil County, MD
You need to get wall street greed out of the equation. These companies are run by quarterly results that always have to be something more than the quarter before. It’s not enough that a product is made to be consumed and workers get paid and payroll taxes submitted and ceos are paid and profits are made. It has to be more more more. It’s killing people’s literally
How about the people that FIX Volkswagen's too? Technicians are dropping like flies, young people getting out realizing it's a bust of an industry. We have to supply all of our tools/equipment out of pocket.
They make the VW ID4 here, sounds like Tenn
Hoping these workers win their vote.
As an aside, I wish people would stop with this "this isn't political" rhetoric. Yes it is. There are owners that have a political interest in keeping your wages low, the fact that you even can vote for a union had to be codified politically, and needs to be continuously supported politically.
I know it's cliche to say everything is political, but first, everything is political. And second, unions aren't even an edge case, they are *explicitly* political.
When’s the vote??
Here's to hoping!
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I'm very happy for the workers!!!!!! GO unions!!!!!!
Very ironic that VW corporation has totally forgotten about the actual German meaning of the word Volkswagen: "The People's Car". Back in 1934, this name "... symbolized the... dreams of the German people during a period marked by economic hardship and political uncertainty." (per Media Storehouse)
Go get em UAW!
Go for it
I feel bad for employees who have had unfair things happen to them, but my history with a union has been just a way to line the pockets of the union and take more of the paycheck away. The better way, in my opinion, is to have safe workplace rules. Not fatten a new union that is corrupt like all politicians.
It's not all that complicated. If productivity goes up, then you need to reinvest in whatever it was that produced it. That means the factory floor. The people and the machines, in that order. If you don't then eventually you fail to maximize profits.
Unionizing just forces plants to close.
Also happening in CA with the Democrat governor raising the fast food minimum wage to $20 hr. The restaurants are closing.
@@dancarlton7973That's because the overpaid executives would rather have the restaurant close than take a pay cut to make up the difference. They got too used to their cushy bonuses.
Workers at the Beretta factory are still making hand guns and hunting guns. Same amongst Spaniard gunsmiths. And British gunsmiths.
And the workforce there can opt to be represented by unions. And they do enjoy a decent standard of living.
American bosses are a paranoid bunch. Obsessed in making their options and getting their bonuses. At the expense of workers.
This company, like all legacy auto companies, will go bust in the growing electric revolution. It won't matter if they are unionized or not.
Together we stand! Workers of the world unite!
i appreciate that this channel spends some time on positive stories and not just doomspeaking forever which is a fault vibe to many leftist channels
FK YEA LETS GOOOOOOO
GO UNION!
Your factories are going to go automated and/or move to a different country and lots of lay offs and people fired and the factories you now work in will be abandoned. Was nobody paying attention in the 1970's and 80's?
May justice prevail. 🙏
In MN, security officers unionized, it helped, we're glad, it's better. We still have work to do. Solidarity! Organize.
Learn from & be inspired by Jane McAlevey
It's so weird seeing Americans having to literally fight for years for basic rights like this. Insane.
Maybe these unions can also you know put pressure to shrink the companies that are causing damage to the planet and our communities in persuit of growth as well, that would be helpful
You guys need to interview the European unions and make everyone aware TN is the odd one out.
What if they shut down the plant? What would that tell the UAW? I don't think those German conglomerates, will fold under 1 domino, vs removing it. Plenty of places that would love the work and not forget where they were before the plant opened.
Let’s say I agreed with the notion the Tennessee govt made about union plants closing.
That’s where if they did their jobs right, there’d be policies in place where if they outsource jobs and close down they have to pay back subsidies plus a departure penalty and give the subsidies to competitors who are union.
I don't work for VW but do live in Chattanooga. Even I can tell the atmosphere around this vote is very different. The last two votes were very close and were weighed down by UAW's corruption/made perception. With the new president and that new contract though, plus VW's much smaller raise as a result, I have no doubt it'll succeed this time. I just hope other auto planets across the South also unionize, I get nervous if we're the only ones.
proletariate napoleon dynamite back at it again
Two things can be true these people deserve to be paid more fair wage in a union is the best way to do that unionizing the automakers will just cause them to Outsource to Mexico
Hope they win. You forgot Bluebird buses in list of recently unionized plants
Union Yes!!
Automakers are just gonna cut cost somewhere else. Like raise the price of cars or pay mechanics less on warranty... Something. Something will happen that the system will start screwing someone else over.
I'm glad these folks accomplished that because they do deserve to share in the profits of big automakers more but can't help thinking that the usa border issue isn't going to render all this useless soon. The automakers will find a way..
This is good news. The Atlas is terrible, as well as the Passat made in that plant. Hopefully after they close these will be made in Germany.
Good! Screw the greedy bastards!
I would like to see coverage on Animators and Voice actors.
Do they get paid a fair wage?
Can they afford to live?
Who cares
@@FJB2020 I do.
They provide our entertainment.
Believe it or not providing entertainment is work. Writers, Animators, Voice actors, Actors in general are actually working for a living too.
Obviously I care. I decided to request a video on the topic. If you don't care keep scrolling.
@Gfish17 A lot of animation work has been shifted to South East Asia and South America.. probably because of the grasp unions have here and the destruction they have caused on American jobs..
They're currently being outsourced to AI. As they should after the massive scandals where firms were getting caught purposely changing translations and scripts.
@@FJB2020still peddling lies huh?
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The fair share for the workers is what's left of the revenue after capital costs are recouped. The owners shouldn't get a dime more than they put in. Yet, they get _more_ than what the put in every time. All industries should be worker-owned industries.
I agree. I do not see the harm in loans with percentile back if the employees agree to the terms. But loans can be paid back. Investment Capital cannot.
I agree with you that all industries should be worker-owned. Everyone's efforts contribute to the company's success and , therefore, everyone should share in the company's profits.
@@FluffyChikkithen we need to change the way business is ran. That also would mean the workers don’t have a stable salary. If the company loses money for the year the employees would have to work for free that year and possibly put money into the company to keep it afloat.
@@EMan-cu5zo Good point. Yes, we would need to change the system. Of course, the real problem isn't the economic system itself. Communism, socialism, capitalism all have their pros and cons. What creates the fly in the ointment for ANY economic system are the people who cheat the system to the detriment of others. Cheaters should never be allowed to prosper.
im really rooting for these workers!!
Note the result of your efforts in the Midwest.
Everyone who makes a deal with the devil thinks they will come out on top. Good luck.