Joye C. answered • 05/09/21
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This question seems muddled. It combines two diverse unconnected groups and then connects them with a cause/action affecting two other diverse unconnected groups.
Significant investments is not the same at all as government subsidies. Investment is money or resources given with the understanding that more money or resources would be returned within a given time frame. A subsidy is money or resource given often to relive some burden for the interstate's of the social good.
Likewise union members, while also being US taxpayers does not mean that all US taxpayers are union members. A union member is someone within a specific trade who pays for the benefits of having the circumstances of his employment negotiated by an elected member of his union. Only 12% of those employed in the U.S. hold a job eligible for union representation.
The question is deeply flawed and makes not sense as written.
Joye C.
I looked up the entire article and you are still leaving out the most important fact..."GM announced that it would invest $1 billion in a manufacturing complex in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico, that will build electric vehicles by 2023". The slap in the face is not the investment but that it is for electrical vehicles TO BE PRODUCED IN MEXICO. The union has been lobbying the US government for subsidies to manufacture electric vehicles in the US by the UAW union members, instead the company GM made its own investments to produce electric vehicles but are putting $1 billion dollars into a manufacturing facility in Mexico which is a slap to both the UAW and US taxpayers who support the Make American/Buy American philosophy of President Biden as well as his goal to rid the US of fossil fuel vehicles by 2035. By investing and building these vehicles in Mexico, the UAW losses power and US taxpayers loss American jobs in a tradeoff GM gaining profits while the US government is paying consumers incentives (subsidies) for purchasing Electric Vehicles.05/09/21
Bryce O.
Sorry, thank you for the correction, I meant to write significant investments and government subsidies, my bad. I just didn't understand a part of an article, which was "United Auto Workers Vice President Terry Dittes called the investment a “slap in the face” to its union members and U.S. taxpayers as the company is one of many lobbying for government incentives to support EVs." That's why I asked this question, just didn't word it properly.05/09/21