UAW Blasts Detroit 3 For Moving Production Abroad To Avoid High US Wages

UAW President Dennis Williams criticized automakers for moving vehicle production to Mexico while taking issue with the notion that the union negotiated such moves last year in return for the end of tiered wages for workers and investments in U.S. plants.

Williams, speaking with reporters Thursday at a media roundtable in Detroit, said automakers are “taking the easy way out” by shifting car production to low-wage countries such as Mexico.

Detroit 3 investments in Mexico “should raise all of our eyebrows because it isn’t about a country that’s buying a lot of vehicles,” Williams said. “It’s about cheap labor.”

PUGPROUD - 5/20/2016 11:12:53 AM

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And UAW is still likely to endorse Clinton...go figure!

Vette71 - 5/20/2016 11:36:21 AM

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Likely?!! They will. Lemmings trudging along in lock step towards the cliff. Coal miners, auto workers, who is next?

MDarringer - 5/20/2016 4:35:30 PM

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The UAW is 100% to blame for the exodus. The UAW does not care about American production or even the rank and file workers. They care ONLY about siphoning off political action money from the mandatory dues to give to the Democrats.

It's time for a 50-state, right-to-work law which would allow workers NOT to have to belong to the Gestapo oops UAW in order to have a low paying job.

40flash - 5/20/2016 10:22:05 PM

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And they all think that if they get laid off, so what. The government will take care of them. No unemployment until all the TSA jobs are filled?

MDarringer - 5/21/2016 12:10:09 PM

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We've gone from $8 trillion in debt in 2008 to $19 trillion today, so what's another $10 trillion among friends?