The United Auto Workers won big in its strike against the Detroit 3. The question is whether gains for the union will be losses for a vital industry.
Members of the United Auto Workers walk a picket line in Ontario, Calif., on Sept. 26. against Ford, General Motors and Stellantis is definitely a big deal. It’s also a good deal — for the UAW. Under a militant new president, Shawn Fain, the union took maximum advantage of a tight labor market and mounted a clever strike strategy aimed at selected plants of all three companies, as opposed to its traditional strategy of targeting all plants of one company.
Indeed, a less-flexible, higher-cost U.S. industry could, in a worst-case scenario, mean fewer jobs for everyone — quite apart from the workforce shrinkage that was going to occur anyway with the shift to EVs, which require fewer hands to build. Cars are unlike health care and other services; you do not usually have to produce them where they’re consumed. Much auto manufacturing has already shifted to Mexico, and China’s industry is booming, as well.
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