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    That would basically double the cost of manufacturing and it would reduce productivity by 20%

    What’s your source? Your own ass or that of the Heritage Foundation? Either way, it stinks to high heaven of bootlicking.

    Either way, that would put the big 3 at a huge disadvantage vs the Asian imports and most notably, Tesla.

    Again with the baseless anti-worker assumptions.

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      That would basically double the cost of manufacturing and it would reduce productivity by 20%

      What’s your source? Your own ass or that of the Heritage Foundation? Either way, it stinks to high heaven of bootlicking.

      His source is math. 32 is 20% less than 40, and in manufacturing, hours worked directly correlates to total output.

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        Yeah because overworked and underpaid workers are exactly as productive as happier and healthier ones 🙄

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          Manufacturing productivity is tightly controlled. Productivity targets are met, based on hours worked. The UAW specifically has a hand in setting productivity targets.

          I don’t agree with all of the above poster’s takes (for instance, I don’t think this is a hard line the union is setting, but rather a negotiation tactic), but his points here do come from basic math and do not require a source.

          I literally refer to the union head of the UAW as “maybe the best I’ve ever seen” like one post prior to this, so if you think I’m opposed to either unions or this strike, you are grossly mistaken.

          I am pro-math, though.