The United Auto Workers are now officially on strike

[Schadenfreude]

Auto industry is pissed about this btw. Been hearing about it. I've had a couple meetings and heard the finance side of this and they aren't happy about Biden putting his foot on the scales in favor of the unions. I expect a deal to happen, and while I don't think the union will get everything they want (they won't lol) it'll be a substantial agreement.

Other automakers are watching this strike to see how it's going to affect their labor rates indirectly. Some are trying to get ahead of it, others are taking a wait and see approach.

 

[Schadenfreude]

IDGAF what they get or not. Just get back to work, fuuuuuck

Is your deposit refundable?

 

[Sterling Archer]

Is your deposit refundable?

Not officially but they would refund it to sell the car with ADM. I’m not backing out, I waited too long already.

 

[Sterling Archer]

Whenever you do get the car breh, go over EVERYTHING with that car with a fine tooth comb. When you work invehicle assembly, and you haven't done it in awhile due to a workplace injury, strike, etc, you get rusty if you haven't done it for awhile and you tend to not follow standardized work and put stuff together in a rush in order to not fall behind since the line keeps moving (which is going to apply to a bunch of these vehicles that are going to be put together after this strike gets settled, whenever that is).

To put it in perspective: at a Toyota plant, a new vehicle is rolling off the assembly line after paint (which is the longest part of the assembly process) every 60-70 seconds.

Yeah I know. I’m only keeping it until the bumper to bumper warranty runs out, then I’ll dump it. So any quality control issues won’t be an expense to me.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Yeah I know. I’m only keeping it until the bumper to bumper warranty runs out, then I’ll dump it. So any quality control issues won’t be an expense to me.

Corvette QC issues are not all that common, especially since that's the lowest volume GM plant they have, as well as it being one of the lower volume trim levels. The workers there know that plant is basically the GM plant that workers transfer to when they're close to retirement since it's a slower pace of work, so if they make a bunch of mistakes putting the cars together they know they can EASILY be replaced. (There's a waiting list of employees who want to work there, they're just waiting for an opening).

Side note: that car may very well hold it's value and you might want to keep it, depending on how you ordered it and what equipment it has.

 

[JT-Money]

 

[Neuromancer]

Car culture will help kill this country.

 

[Strapped]

Look at this POS. Send all the jobs to Mexico with their shytty quality.

Muthafukas like him make me sick , you have way to many bigots on YouTube spreading white supremacy rhetoric under the guise of democracy . Dude like him will sell out the United States to make a dollar