September 17, 2023 • 30 mins
Imagine a world where auto workers clock in for just 32 hours each week, but pocket a whopping 40% more pay. Sounds radical, right? Join us for a riveting discussion on the United Auto Workers' strike that's shaking up the industry, demanding this seismic shift in pay and work hours. We delve into the ripple effects of these demands, from how they could deplete the strike fund to the possibility of steering consumers away from the Detroit Three.
The stakes are high and the impact of this strike is far-reaching. In our second segment, we take you inside the communities where the closure of auto plants is more than just a headline - it's a livelihood at risk. With the UAW mounting an unprecedented strike against GM, Ford, and Stalannis, we share stories of the thousands whose daily bread is tied to these plants and how the Detroit Three's market share has influenced closures. We also give you a snapshot of dealer responses, and for a change of pace, we’ll catch up on the race season, with Erica Enders leading in Pro Stock and the upcoming Bristol night races.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to another In Wheel Time Podcast, a 30 minute
mini version of the In WheelTime car show that airs live
every Saturday morning 8 to 11amcentral From the Sugar Shack
World headquarters.
It's the In Wheel Time car talkshow coming up.
(00:23):
We hope to have HannahMishchenko with Zootoby With DUI
information.
We'll hopefully hear whereTexas fits in that we can still
do the story without her, butI'd like to have her with us.
Jeff has a segment on the topproducing auto assembly plants
(00:44):
in the US.
Conrad has the racing calendarand the car clinic and later
we'll have a couple storiesmaking automotive news headlines
this week, outside of the bigheadline which is the UAW strike
that started on Friday Justahead here on the In Wheel Time
car talk show, howdy, along withMike out of this world on my
phone, mars.
We always need more.
(01:05):
Jeff Zekin, king, conrad DeLongand you are Nobody, absolutely
nobody.
I'm just here filling a spot,that's all.
I've elbowed my way in here andsomehow somebody let me in.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
It's your garage.
So we gotta let you talk, don's.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Garage?
Yeah, and it's actually not agarage.
No, it never has been.
There's not a hole big enoughto put a car through.
Nope, it's purpose built forstudio.
It is, yeah, a rehearsal studio.
Actually is what this was for aband, a rock band, a kid band?
Yeah, garage band, so to speak.
At least that's what we used tocall them back in my day.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
We're getting the band back together, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
We're putting the band back together.
So the UAW strike, shall wetalk about that?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
As well, because our guest is not going to be able to
join us.
Why not Make something up Force?
Mature is what it says.
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
It beats the heck out of me.
It's a word that I don't knowhow to pronounce and I don't
really know the completedefinition of it.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
So it started with the UAW demanding a 40% pay
increase, and now they'vesettled for a 36% pay raise.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
I thought it was down to 18.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
No, no, no, no, no, no, no 36% pay raise and the
automakers have countered withan 18 and a 20% pay raise.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Now let me ask you this If you go to your boss and
you said I want a 36% raise andI demand it, otherwise I'm going
to go on strike, you know whatthey'd say Get the road, Jack.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Well, and to a degree they are, because you know,
you've got to remember.
Now they are striking selectplants at 4GM and still have to
begin with.
Now you know why they do that.
Right, because all the otherworkers who are still paying
their union dues, becausethey're paid, are funding the
strike fund.
Because the employees, theunion members who go out on
(03:07):
strike, the union has some paythat they get gives those people
money.
So if they all strike at once,then the strike fund gets
depleted.
So now what they're doing isthis selective strike.
Well, funny thing is, ford andGM are slowing down some plants
and doing some layoffs at someplants as well, and that's going
(03:29):
to I bet you impact the fundingof the strike fund.
So you know, mess with me, messwith you kind of thing is what
I believe is going on.
You know Ford's.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Huh, I see, I never thought that.
But yeah, it makes sense.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
It is closing down and shutting down the Chicago,
the Kansas City, the Kentuckytruck plant and the Louisville
plant as well.
And then GM is shutting downthe Fort Wayne truck plant due
to trying to manage highinventories at the dealerships,
Because right now if you want awhite truck, that's all the
(04:04):
dealerships have are whitetrucks.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Isn't it ironic that they're not the big three, the
Detroit three, because you'vegot Lexus, Toyota, Honda that
will just suck them up in all oftheir profits.
So good for them.
I hope they fire them all andnone of them are UAW.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
You know the Toyota, the Subaru, the BMW, the
Mercedes assembly.
That goes on here in the UnitedStates.
How about Tesla?
And Tesla is not UAW.
So what GM is what they'redoing, what the UAW is doing and
I think it's a huge mistake ontheir part.
They're going to forcecustomers to go buy some of
these other brands and once theydo, they're never going to come
(04:44):
back to GM, ford and Chrysler.
Once they, once they get ataste of the the other brands
whether it's a style, design,quality and such- doubtful that
they're going to come back.
So you know the UAW is cuttingtheir nose off despite their
face.
I understand some of theirreasons to strike is they want a
(05:04):
pay raise.
If you look at it, the CEO paywent up 40 percent over the last
couple of years.
All three of them are makingover $20 million a year.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
What does an auto worker make nowadays?
More than anybody else.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
And all of them make the same.
Doesn't matter if you push abroom or if you're measuring the
piston size for cylinder.
Whatever level of knowledge youhave, they all make the same.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Which is that much.
What is that?
What other job category makesthat money?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Nobody, nobody.
But they're looking for the newpay raise that they're asking
for.
The average auto worker isgonna make $300,000 a year and
they're also asking for a 32hour work week.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I'll take $300,000 a year On a 32 hour work week
versus 40.
On a 32 hour work week.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
So it's a 40% increase in pay and a 20%
reduction in work.
Well, sign me up as well.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
How's that gonna translate to how much your car
is gonna cost?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
You know, and the funny thing, the other thing I
look at it is you know they'recomplaining that the worker pay
has only gone up by 6% over thelast four years.
Hey, uaw, you know whonegotiated that contract.
Fain negotiated the contractfor the last four years.
It only gave you 6%.
(06:34):
So now you've got this guy istrying to negotiate to a 40% pay
raise.
I think you are stepping insomething that you're not gonna
be able to shake off your shoe.
My personal opinion, becausethey're gonna force people to go
buy other vehicles and they'renever gonna come back.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Have you ever been in a union.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
No, yes.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Bar says you're a sheep, you're just a sheep,
that's how you are.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
And you know they talk about how much the CEOs are
making that are running thecorporations, and I do endlessly
to the point of drivingsomething you guys nuts, I'm
gonna join a union.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
It's gonna be great.
No, well, they got into it.
Let them suffer.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Nobody talks about how much Fain is making, because
I think he's making over $3million a year.
And what does he do?
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Not a damn thing Full-time union president, but
like $3 million a year.
But the CEO pay is not.
That's contracted, that'snegotiated.
The board is negotiating that.
It's not like a worker thatworks under a contract or even
just a manager, that's workingsalary.
That's all contract negotiated.
(07:41):
So the fact that somebody theboard wants to pay him $20
million is irrelevant to whatthey're talking about because
there's no connection to it.
But the you, the you, the waythat you, the board, could say
we're not gonna pay, I meanwe're not gonna pay the CEO
anything for the next two yearsbecause we wanna save that money
.
That would have no impact onthe employees that are working
under the contract.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I agree, but that is one of the points that the UAW
continues to bring up.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Every union does every time.
Our union always did that.
We just thought, oh, they makeso much money and they got so
much land.
Well, that's the board and youknow that's.
There's nothing you can doabout that.
You can sit there and say, oh,we want our share.
Well, then you're gonna have totake the good with the bad.
I even heard that on somecommentators.
He just said Whenever?
(08:27):
The market falls and thecompany, like Ford's, lost what
$3 billion working on EVs?
Well, you don't see any.
They've lost $6 billion Well youdon't see any UAW people taking
a cut and paid to make up forthat loss.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You just said at the board the share that the
shareholders are, the ones thatvote them in and who are the
shareholders.
Some of those shareholders areworkers.
Now, if they're voting thosepeople in, it's like anything
else.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
That's right.
They vote the board in and thenthe board turns around and then
they go oh, look at the wallwith me, because you're at your
vote counts, and when you votemorons in ahead of you, you get
morons leading you Just look atthe federal government.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Whose fault is that?
Exactly, people that work forthem.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
There you go, yeah, but if you're making 200,000
plus a year, you're not gonnawant to get rid of anybody
that's gonna start cutting yourpay.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I was 18 years old in a union, working at a factory
making 38 bucks an hour, andthen you get all your bennies on
top of that.
18 years old, back in the 70sUnheard of.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
And look at you now?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, I'm still pretty, but it's ridiculous.
He was even ridiculous backthen.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Now I didn't vote any of these people in, but I was
expected to vote the way theywanted you to vote in a contract
or with the union, but you're$38 an hour and you didn't want
to vote them out because youdidn't want to lose your $38.
I don't think I ever voted.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I don't think I ever voted in a union election.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I'll bet you, you voted every time, you just
didn't know it.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
No well that's true too.
I didn't sign a ballot orsubmit a ballot, but yeah,
someone probably did for thepeople that don't.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Well, they could put a serial number on every dollar
bill.
You'd think they could put aserial number on a ballot.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Yeah, but no, I understand what you're saying,
because whenever our union I gotout of our union probably three
or four years before I gotpromoted into a salary position
for that very same reason thatyou know, they made our
president, our local president,a full-time employee.
So this guy no longer had towork.
All he had to do was go to theunion hall, sit around there and
(10:28):
listen to people whining andcomplaining about stuff.
And so I bailed.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I mean, unions do some good stuff, but one of
those people that think they'veoutlived their primary use I
actually received a dues checkafter I left, moved to Texas and
everything for a substantialamount of money, that they
reimbursed me some of my dues,really yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yeah, good for you, but you can't not pay the dues.
If you're a member of the union, you're salary.
Yeah, they take it out of yourshabber.
If you're a nipper, yeah Right.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
You would have to be a member to work in the plant.
It's not like Texas are rightto work state Well that's true.
You get to go.
In fact, the pictures I got ofthe plants coming up, one of
them was the Fort Street plantthat my dad worked at, my
brother and I worked at.
It's in the middle of the shots, but I'll bring it up.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
And now Ford is also restarting four assembly plants
in Mexico UAW.
I don't think UAW is in Mexico.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
No, no, but maybe Abbott could send some buses to
Detroit.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Car haulers bring the car haulers.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
We could have filled the car haulers, yeah there's a
C-AW, there's a Canadian autoworkers and UAW, which is
American auto workers, Unitedauto workers Well, yeah, but
they represent the Americanemployee, but I don't think
there's a Mexican UAW.
So the corporations are gonnaplay the game it's the Arriba
(11:53):
you did and as the UAW is goingto strike, the corporations are
gonna look for ways to impactthe strike fund.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Okay so, the UAW goes on strike.
You got Salantes, ford, generalMotors.
What about all the vendors, allthe suppliers, all of those
folks that have a livelihood aswell?
They're not making the 44%increase.
They're producing a widget thatthey use.
Now they're not getting any ofthat.
Now, some vendors are UAW,they're part of the union as
(12:25):
well, but there's only a selectfew.
There's only so many.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Well, and if there's no plants working to take those
widgets that they're buildingthen they're losing too.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Oh yeah, that's so important.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
They have no expectation.
I mean obviously, if you go onstrike you're not gonna get your
money back, particularly atthat hourly rate.
You're not gonna 15, 20, 30%raise.
It's gonna take you forever toget your money back.
But those guys that supply thewidgets to them that are losing,
they're not gonna ever get achance to catch it back.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Well, we talked about it last week is the peripheral
people the guy that owns the baracross from the plant, the
grocery store in the community,the manicurist by the way I have
a pedicure today the manicuristthat's in the community as well
.
They're all impacted.
When these people go on strikeand they're not working anymore,
(13:17):
they're not spending any money,yep, so it's a big, huge impact
on the economy, on top of thefact of the inflation rates we
have.
They talk about inflation'sgoing down, but inflation
compounds itself year after year.
You know, last year it was 9%,well, this year it's 3%, but
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it's 3% on top of the 9%.
They say that State ofMichigan's consumer price index
over the last two years is up17%.
You know, in the unions they'renot keeping pace with their 6%
contract that fame negotiatedfor them four years ago.
So you know who's to blame thatyour contract isn't keeping up
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with the cost of living.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
So my brother worked at the Janesville Assembly Plant
for General Motors that theactual plant itself started in
1919 as a tractor factory.
General Motors bought thetractor factory.
Ultimately that tractor factorywent belly up and GM started
building cars and trucks there.
And I was driven by it a coupleof weeks ago when I visited up
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there what where it was?
They tore it down and donatedall of the land to the city of
Janesville.
The problem is is that there issome ugly stuff that's in the
dirt where that 1919, you know,you got a bucket of oil.
Just go out there and throw itout in the back.
So they've got a.
If the city is ever gonna doanything with this massive piece
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of property of Janesville it'sgotta get cleaned up, which will
cost multiple millions ofdollars.
So GM said okay, well, we'lljust tear it down and you can do
whatever you want with it.
And there's a big, you know,fence around it now.
But to your point about theancillary support people that
supply the assembly plant thebar and the grocery store.
(15:10):
Yeah, and there happens to be,and they drove me by this bar
and the bar is still there.
I don't know how it stays inbusiness, but it's this little
bitty rinky dink bar that's onthe back end of the assembly
plant.
There's also a garage overthere.
You can see where all of theseCertain things are placed.
Yeah, the people that worked inthese ancillary businesses that
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had nothing to do with the carindustry other than serving the
people that worked there,thousands of them, and over the
decades you can imagine,probably millions of people that
worked there at one point oranother, because it was a very
large, old assembly plant.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Being built in 1919, you can just imagine what it
looked like.
But it's a real shame to driveby something like that because,
besides of what they made, itwas a place where people made
their living.
It was influential on theentire cities?
Yes, absolutely, and so when Idrove by the Belvedere assembly
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plant that Stalannis has it'smothballs right now on the side
of the freeway between Chicagoand Janesville, wisconsin,
there's nothing there.
I took pictures of it.
You know huge parking lotswhere the actual employees
parked.
Nothing, you know, I think theyhave one security guard there
looking at the gate.
That's about it.
It's truly a sad thing when afactory like that shuts down,
(16:31):
and I would imagine that youknow.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Possibly more will.
Yeah, because of this strike.
You know, as the domesticmarket share falls, they don't
have the need for as manyassembly plants, which is what's
driven some of the closuresalready.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Well, I wanted to read this story.
This is from Automotive News.
The Detroit three who went onstrike early Friday don't churn
out the full size pickups andSUVs that generate the
automakers biggest profits, nordo they build the engines or
transmissions needed to keepother factories humming.
Instead, the UAW'sunprecedented walk out against
GM, ford and Stalannis targetedthree assembly plants where a
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shutdown won't make too big of adent in the bottom line, at
least for now.
The plants make Chevrolet'sninth biggest seller the
Colorado midsize pickup, thesenumber four utility vehicle and
number three pickup, the Broncoand Ranger and the Jeep Wrangler
, an SUV that dealers aren'texpected to run out of for
nearly three months.
The plants Wentzville assemblyin Missouri for GM, michigan
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assembly near Detroit for Ford,and Toledo assembly in Ohio for
Stalantus employ about 13,000hourly workers, or roughly 9% of
the UAW's membership at theDetroit three.
The strategy will have animmediate effect on vehicle
production at those plants andon the suppliers that sell to
them, but it is so far dealsonly.
(17:56):
But so far it only deals alimited blow to the automakers
overall us operations.
That could change quickly,though, as the union is saving
firepower to escalate the strikeand ramp up pressure on the
automakers if negotiations feelto reach a resolution soon.
The UAW has a strike fund of$825 million and, at estimated
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costs of $8 million per week, astrike could last for more than
a hundred weeks.
According to Wells Fargoresearch published Friday, the
three plants that went offlineFriday accounted for an
estimated 11% of the Detroitthree light vehicle production
in 2022, according to the report, some dealers were not
immediately worried.
(18:38):
Texas dealer, houston dealerStephen Wolf, who owns Healthman
Dodge, chrysler, jeep, ram,fiat in Houston, said he'd
expected the union to strike.
The stoppage in Toledo wouldneed to last around 45 to 60
days before Wrangler andGladiator inventories become a
problem at his store.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
So they're basing the strike on the amount of money
they have in the bank, in thestrike fund, yes, so if we run
low on that the strike ends.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Well, not necessarily .
They could run out of money andthe people on the line, that's
striking, they might not get apaycheck.
That's happened in the past,absolutely.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
And the other thing that could happen is the federal
government could fund it.
You know they're talking about.
What is it?
The writer strike in Californiaright now.
The state of California isthinking about paying those
people unemployment.
Well, I could, you know, Icould easily see the federal
government doing the same thingfor these people out on strike.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
All right time to change directions here on the
In-Wheel Time Talk Show.
Let's talk about the race card.
You know racing season isbeginning to wrap up.
Yep, wind it out.
Erica is currently qualifiednumber one in pro stock in the
current drag race With a 649,which is just tremendous time.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
She's the only one in the 640s.
That's Maple Grove this weekend, nhra.
You'll be able to see it on Foxbroadcast and FS1.
Bristol night races tonight,which is always good.
Bristol being a short track,they'll be pushing each other
around and no doubt tempers willflare.
Next weekend NASCAR will be atTexas and then December, or,
(20:15):
excuse me, october 1st, it'll beat Talladega.
Formula one this weekend is inSingapore and then next weekend
they're in Japan.
Imsa is at the Indianapolisroad course, the old F1 course.
So the Cadillac DPIs, theCorvette and stuff will all be
(20:35):
at Indianapolis this weekend.
And then a Fast ladies part 2,nascar Indy car finished, they
had their Laguna seca andthey're done for the season.
Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Must be nice, all right.
By the way, the in-wheel timerace card is sponsored by Texas
nostalgia modified Production.
You know we're talking aboutassembly plants a minute ago in
the strike and everything, butwhen the assembly plants are up
and running, jeff has a featureon the top producing assembly.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I've got the top six due to time.
There's several others that youcould go top 10, top 15, but I
did this just because of that,because the lead in article and
the gentleman from Ford and allthat good stuff.
So let's get this going.
And the number six is a GeneralMotors plant.
Now, none of these photos haveanything to do with what we're
talking about, so they're justrandom shots.
(21:25):
General Motors plant Fort Wayneis a Roanoke Indiana plant.
They produce 307 1454 cars.
Fort Wayne is the busiestGeneral Motors plant in America.
It is responsible for thecompany's two large pickup
trucks, which would be the GMCSierra and the Chevrolet
Silverado.
It is a 2.85 million squarefoot factory and it opened in
(21:46):
1986 you know how many squarefeet that is?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
you can't stand at one end of the factory and see
the other end.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
When you're inside and it's relatively automated.
There's a lot of computer stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Number five is Toyota , georgetown, kentucky 350,000
889 cars.
Toyota has long Manufacturedmany of its cars in America,
including the top-selling Camry,the midsize.
The Camry is assembled at theplants Toyota's Toyota plant at
7.5 million square foot plant inGeorge yeah, it's the largest
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plant outside of the one inJapan.
Now that's the Fort Streetplant.
That's where my dad worked,that's where I work, that's my
brother worked.
Is it still there?
It's no, it's level, that'sgone.
But this is the one that we'retalking about now.
Number four is the Nissan NorthAmerica in Smyrna, tennessee,
333,392 vehicles.
Smyrna is one of the oldestForeign auto plants in the US,
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with the production startingback in June of 1983.
It's also the second highestproducing foreign-owned factory
in the country, thanks in partto the Nissan Altima not UAW,
not UAW Close that they produceall kinds of things the
Pathfinder, the frontier, theMaxima and also the Nissan
Altima.
So those are the ones for that,for the Nissan plant.
(23:03):
Number three is Hyundai.
Hyundai Motor Manufacturing inAlabama, montgomery, alabama,
342,162 cars.
They may be designed andengineered in South Korea, but
they Hyundai, alantra and Sonataare both assembled in the US.
The two million square footfactory was officially opened in
(23:26):
May 2005.
This was all built on ahandshake.
Number two we talked about itand was Brian from Ford.
Ford Dearborn plant in Dearborn, michigan.
343,888 cars this is a Dodgepicture, by the way.
It opened in 2004.
(23:46):
The Dearborn truck plant is hometo America's best-selling
vehicle, the Ford F1 series.
Last year they put together323,415 copies of the F series
and then 473 copies of the nowdefunct Lincoln Mark LT pickup.
It's a 203 million square footfloor space for that particular
(24:07):
plant.
Been there now.
Number one, and we talked aboutit earlier the Ford Kansas City
assembly plant in Clay Como,missouri, not the Kansas City
side, but the Missouri side.
460,338 vehicles.
Henry Ford, who pioneered themoving assembly line, would
surely be proud to see FordMotor Company factories on this
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list.
If you go to the top ten Fordson there, three times General
Motors, only on there once.
It is a 4.7 million square footplant.
It also produces all of theFord F series.
That's the Rouge plant rightthere.
Look at that healthy thingthere, boy.
I'll tell you what.
Do you want to?
Go there and breathe that air.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Well, I'll tell you, at the time that I went there,
it was a new plant it they hadtorn down the original Rouge
River plant, which was theactual first plant that Henry
put together right right thereacross from Windsor Ontario, and
they made the frames, they cutthe wood, they made the glass
(25:10):
produce their own electricity.
Yeah and and formed their ownsteel and everything.
They did everything at theRouge River assembly.
Now.
And that's why the river was red, because they dumped all that
waste into the river and all ofthe All of the property is still
there, although there's a lotof it that's not used anymore,
because you could just imagineall those other factories that
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just Took up a lot of space inthis part of land.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Well, and then in the Texas area we have Arlington
assembly plant that builds GMsport utilities, and they're
about to expand urban, yeah.
And then the San Antonio plantfor Toyota builds tundra's and
Tacomas Yep.
And then there's a tree plantin Shreveport, Louisiana as well
, which is just across the Texasborder and don't leave out the
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Tesla plant.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah, you could do research, you could get to top
50, the top 20, whatever you'relooking for in that category of
what information you need.
I did six for time.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
So it's gonna have an impact on Texas as well.
The strike is, they say, forevery employee on strike there's
six to ten ancillary people whoare impacted by it.
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this week, outside of the bigheadline which is the UAW strike
that started on Friday Justahead here on the In Wheel Time
car talk show, howdy, along withMike out of this world on my
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We always need more.
(01:05):
Jeff Zekin, king, conrad DeLongand you are Nobody, absolutely
nobody.
I'm just here filling a spot,that's all.
I've elbowed my way in here andsomehow somebody let me in.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
It's your garage.
So we gotta let you talk, don's.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Garage?
Yeah, and it's actually not agarage.
No, it never has been.
There's not a hole big enoughto put a car through.
Nope, it's purpose built forstudio.
It is, yeah, a rehearsal studio.
Actually is what this was for aband, a rock band, a kid band?
Yeah, garage band, so to speak.
At least that's what we used tocall them back in my day.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
We're getting the band back together, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
We're putting the band back together.
So the UAW strike, shall wetalk about that?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
As well, because our guest is not going to be able to
join us.
Why not Make something up Force?
Mature is what it says.
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
It beats the heck out of me.
It's a word that I don't knowhow to pronounce and I don't
really know the completedefinition of it.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
So it started with the UAW demanding a 40% pay
increase, and now they'vesettled for a 36% pay raise.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
I thought it was down to 18.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
No, no, no, no, no, no, no 36% pay raise and the
automakers have countered withan 18 and a 20% pay raise.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Now let me ask you this If you go to your boss and
you said I want a 36% raise andI demand it, otherwise I'm going
to go on strike, you know whatthey'd say Get the road, Jack.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Well, and to a degree they are, because you know,
you've got to remember.
Now they are striking selectplants at 4GM and still have to
begin with.
Now you know why they do that.
Right, because all the otherworkers who are still paying
their union dues, becausethey're paid, are funding the
strike fund.
Because the employees, theunion members who go out on
(03:07):
strike, the union has some paythat they get gives those people
money.
So if they all strike at once,then the strike fund gets
depleted.
So now what they're doing isthis selective strike.
Well, funny thing is, ford andGM are slowing down some plants
and doing some layoffs at someplants as well, and that's going
(03:29):
to I bet you impact the fundingof the strike fund.
So you know, mess with me, messwith you kind of thing is what
I believe is going on.
You know Ford's.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Huh, I see, I never thought that.
But yeah, it makes sense.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
It is closing down and shutting down the Chicago,
the Kansas City, the Kentuckytruck plant and the Louisville
plant as well.
And then GM is shutting downthe Fort Wayne truck plant due
to trying to manage highinventories at the dealerships,
Because right now if you want awhite truck, that's all the
(04:04):
dealerships have are whitetrucks.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Isn't it ironic that they're not the big three, the
Detroit three, because you'vegot Lexus, Toyota, Honda that
will just suck them up in all oftheir profits.
So good for them.
I hope they fire them all andnone of them are UAW.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
You know the Toyota, the Subaru, the BMW, the
Mercedes assembly.
That goes on here in the UnitedStates.
How about Tesla?
And Tesla is not UAW.
So what GM is what they'redoing, what the UAW is doing and
I think it's a huge mistake ontheir part.
They're going to forcecustomers to go buy some of
these other brands and once theydo, they're never going to come
(04:44):
back to GM, ford and Chrysler.
Once they, once they get ataste of the the other brands
whether it's a style, design,quality and such- doubtful that
they're going to come back.
So you know the UAW is cuttingtheir nose off despite their
face.
I understand some of theirreasons to strike is they want a
(05:04):
pay raise.
If you look at it, the CEO paywent up 40 percent over the last
couple of years.
All three of them are makingover $20 million a year.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
What does an auto worker make nowadays?
More than anybody else.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
And all of them make the same.
Doesn't matter if you push abroom or if you're measuring the
piston size for cylinder.
Whatever level of knowledge youhave, they all make the same.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Which is that much.
What is that?
What other job category makesthat money?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Nobody, nobody.
But they're looking for the newpay raise that they're asking
for.
The average auto worker isgonna make $300,000 a year and
they're also asking for a 32hour work week.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I'll take $300,000 a year On a 32 hour work week
versus 40.
On a 32 hour work week.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
So it's a 40% increase in pay and a 20%
reduction in work.
Well, sign me up as well.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
How's that gonna translate to how much your car
is gonna cost?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
You know, and the funny thing, the other thing I
look at it is you know they'recomplaining that the worker pay
has only gone up by 6% over thelast four years.
Hey, uaw, you know whonegotiated that contract.
Fain negotiated the contractfor the last four years.
It only gave you 6%.
(06:34):
So now you've got this guy istrying to negotiate to a 40% pay
raise.
I think you are stepping insomething that you're not gonna
be able to shake off your shoe.
My personal opinion, becausethey're gonna force people to go
buy other vehicles and they'renever gonna come back.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Have you ever been in a union.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
No, yes.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Bar says you're a sheep, you're just a sheep,
that's how you are.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
And you know they talk about how much the CEOs are
making that are running thecorporations, and I do endlessly
to the point of drivingsomething you guys nuts, I'm
gonna join a union.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
It's gonna be great.
No, well, they got into it.
Let them suffer.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Nobody talks about how much Fain is making, because
I think he's making over $3million a year.
And what does he do?
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Not a damn thing Full-time union president, but
like $3 million a year.
But the CEO pay is not.
That's contracted, that'snegotiated.
The board is negotiating that.
It's not like a worker thatworks under a contract or even
just a manager, that's workingsalary.
That's all contract negotiated.
(07:41):
So the fact that somebody theboard wants to pay him $20
million is irrelevant to whatthey're talking about because
there's no connection to it.
But the you, the you, the waythat you, the board, could say
we're not gonna pay, I meanwe're not gonna pay the CEO
anything for the next two yearsbecause we wanna save that money
.
That would have no impact onthe employees that are working
under the contract.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I agree, but that is one of the points that the UAW
continues to bring up.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Every union does every time.
Our union always did that.
We just thought, oh, they makeso much money and they got so
much land.
Well, that's the board and youknow that's.
There's nothing you can doabout that.
You can sit there and say, oh,we want our share.
Well, then you're gonna have totake the good with the bad.
I even heard that on somecommentators.
He just said Whenever?
(08:27):
The market falls and thecompany, like Ford's, lost what
$3 billion working on EVs?
Well, you don't see any.
They've lost $6 billion Well youdon't see any UAW people taking
a cut and paid to make up forthat loss.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You just said at the board the share that the
shareholders are, the ones thatvote them in and who are the
shareholders.
Some of those shareholders areworkers.
Now, if they're voting thosepeople in, it's like anything
else.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
That's right.
They vote the board in and thenthe board turns around and then
they go oh, look at the wallwith me, because you're at your
vote counts, and when you votemorons in ahead of you, you get
morons leading you Just look atthe federal government.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Whose fault is that?
Exactly, people that work forthem.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
There you go, yeah, but if you're making 200,000
plus a year, you're not gonnawant to get rid of anybody
that's gonna start cutting yourpay.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I was 18 years old in a union, working at a factory
making 38 bucks an hour, andthen you get all your bennies on
top of that.
18 years old, back in the 70sUnheard of.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
And look at you now?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, I'm still pretty, but it's ridiculous.
He was even ridiculous backthen.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Now I didn't vote any of these people in, but I was
expected to vote the way theywanted you to vote in a contract
or with the union, but you're$38 an hour and you didn't want
to vote them out because youdidn't want to lose your $38.
I don't think I ever voted.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I don't think I ever voted in a union election.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I'll bet you, you voted every time, you just
didn't know it.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
No well that's true too.
I didn't sign a ballot orsubmit a ballot, but yeah,
someone probably did for thepeople that don't.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Well, they could put a serial number on every dollar
bill.
You'd think they could put aserial number on a ballot.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Yeah, but no, I understand what you're saying,
because whenever our union I gotout of our union probably three
or four years before I gotpromoted into a salary position
for that very same reason thatyou know, they made our
president, our local president,a full-time employee.
So this guy no longer had towork.
All he had to do was go to theunion hall, sit around there and
(10:28):
listen to people whining andcomplaining about stuff.
And so I bailed.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I mean, unions do some good stuff, but one of
those people that think they'veoutlived their primary use I
actually received a dues checkafter I left, moved to Texas and
everything for a substantialamount of money, that they
reimbursed me some of my dues,really yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yeah, good for you, but you can't not pay the dues.
If you're a member of the union, you're salary.
Yeah, they take it out of yourshabber.
If you're a nipper, yeah Right.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
You would have to be a member to work in the plant.
It's not like Texas are rightto work state Well that's true.
You get to go.
In fact, the pictures I got ofthe plants coming up, one of
them was the Fort Street plantthat my dad worked at, my
brother and I worked at.
It's in the middle of the shots, but I'll bring it up.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
And now Ford is also restarting four assembly plants
in Mexico UAW.
I don't think UAW is in Mexico.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
No, no, but maybe Abbott could send some buses to
Detroit.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Car haulers bring the car haulers.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
We could have filled the car haulers, yeah there's a
C-AW, there's a Canadian autoworkers and UAW, which is
American auto workers, Unitedauto workers Well, yeah, but
they represent the Americanemployee, but I don't think
there's a Mexican UAW.
So the corporations are gonnaplay the game it's the Arriba
(11:53):
you did and as the UAW is goingto strike, the corporations are
gonna look for ways to impactthe strike fund.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Okay so, the UAW goes on strike.
You got Salantes, ford, generalMotors.
What about all the vendors, allthe suppliers, all of those
folks that have a livelihood aswell?
They're not making the 44%increase.
They're producing a widget thatthey use.
Now they're not getting any ofthat.
Now, some vendors are UAW,they're part of the union as
(12:25):
well, but there's only a selectfew.
There's only so many.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Well, and if there's no plants working to take those
widgets that they're buildingthen they're losing too.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Oh yeah, that's so important.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
They have no expectation.
I mean obviously, if you go onstrike you're not gonna get your
money back, particularly atthat hourly rate.
You're not gonna 15, 20, 30%raise.
It's gonna take you forever toget your money back.
But those guys that supply thewidgets to them that are losing,
they're not gonna ever get achance to catch it back.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Well, we talked about it last week is the peripheral
people the guy that owns the baracross from the plant, the
grocery store in the community,the manicurist by the way I have
a pedicure today the manicuristthat's in the community as well
.
They're all impacted.
When these people go on strikeand they're not working anymore,
(13:17):
they're not spending any money,yep, so it's a big, huge impact
on the economy, on top of thefact of the inflation rates we
have.
They talk about inflation'sgoing down, but inflation
compounds itself year after year.
You know, last year it was 9%,well, this year it's 3%, but
(13:38):
it's 3% on top of the 9%.
They say that State ofMichigan's consumer price index
over the last two years is up17%.
You know, in the unions they'renot keeping pace with their 6%
contract that fame negotiatedfor them four years ago.
So you know who's to blame thatyour contract isn't keeping up
(14:01):
with the cost of living.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
So my brother worked at the Janesville Assembly Plant
for General Motors that theactual plant itself started in
1919 as a tractor factory.
General Motors bought thetractor factory.
Ultimately that tractor factorywent belly up and GM started
building cars and trucks there.
And I was driven by it a coupleof weeks ago when I visited up
(14:26):
there what where it was?
They tore it down and donatedall of the land to the city of
Janesville.
The problem is is that there issome ugly stuff that's in the
dirt where that 1919, you know,you got a bucket of oil.
Just go out there and throw itout in the back.
So they've got a.
If the city is ever gonna doanything with this massive piece
(14:48):
of property of Janesville it'sgotta get cleaned up, which will
cost multiple millions ofdollars.
So GM said okay, well, we'lljust tear it down and you can do
whatever you want with it.
And there's a big, you know,fence around it now.
But to your point about theancillary support people that
supply the assembly plant thebar and the grocery store.
(15:10):
Yeah, and there happens to be,and they drove me by this bar
and the bar is still there.
I don't know how it stays inbusiness, but it's this little
bitty rinky dink bar that's onthe back end of the assembly
plant.
There's also a garage overthere.
You can see where all of theseCertain things are placed.
Yeah, the people that worked inthese ancillary businesses that
(15:32):
had nothing to do with the carindustry other than serving the
people that worked there,thousands of them, and over the
decades you can imagine,probably millions of people that
worked there at one point oranother, because it was a very
large, old assembly plant.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Being built in 1919, you can just imagine what it
looked like.
But it's a real shame to driveby something like that because,
besides of what they made, itwas a place where people made
their living.
It was influential on theentire cities?
Yes, absolutely, and so when Idrove by the Belvedere assembly
(16:07):
plant that Stalannis has it'smothballs right now on the side
of the freeway between Chicagoand Janesville, wisconsin,
there's nothing there.
I took pictures of it.
You know huge parking lotswhere the actual employees
parked.
Nothing, you know, I think theyhave one security guard there
looking at the gate.
That's about it.
It's truly a sad thing when afactory like that shuts down,
(16:31):
and I would imagine that youknow.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Possibly more will.
Yeah, because of this strike.
You know, as the domesticmarket share falls, they don't
have the need for as manyassembly plants, which is what's
driven some of the closuresalready.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Well, I wanted to read this story.
This is from Automotive News.
The Detroit three who went onstrike early Friday don't churn
out the full size pickups andSUVs that generate the
automakers biggest profits, nordo they build the engines or
transmissions needed to keepother factories humming.
Instead, the UAW'sunprecedented walk out against
GM, ford and Stalannis targetedthree assembly plants where a
(17:10):
shutdown won't make too big of adent in the bottom line, at
least for now.
The plants make Chevrolet'sninth biggest seller the
Colorado midsize pickup, thesenumber four utility vehicle and
number three pickup, the Broncoand Ranger and the Jeep Wrangler
, an SUV that dealers aren'texpected to run out of for
nearly three months.
The plants Wentzville assemblyin Missouri for GM, michigan
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assembly near Detroit for Ford,and Toledo assembly in Ohio for
Stalantus employ about 13,000hourly workers, or roughly 9% of
the UAW's membership at theDetroit three.
The strategy will have animmediate effect on vehicle
production at those plants andon the suppliers that sell to
them, but it is so far dealsonly.
(17:56):
But so far it only deals alimited blow to the automakers
overall us operations.
That could change quickly,though, as the union is saving
firepower to escalate the strikeand ramp up pressure on the
automakers if negotiations feelto reach a resolution soon.
The UAW has a strike fund of$825 million and, at estimated
(18:18):
costs of $8 million per week, astrike could last for more than
a hundred weeks.
According to Wells Fargoresearch published Friday, the
three plants that went offlineFriday accounted for an
estimated 11% of the Detroitthree light vehicle production
in 2022, according to the report, some dealers were not
immediately worried.
(18:38):
Texas dealer, houston dealerStephen Wolf, who owns Healthman
Dodge, chrysler, jeep, ram,fiat in Houston, said he'd
expected the union to strike.
The stoppage in Toledo wouldneed to last around 45 to 60
days before Wrangler andGladiator inventories become a
problem at his store.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
So they're basing the strike on the amount of money
they have in the bank, in thestrike fund, yes, so if we run
low on that the strike ends.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Well, not necessarily .
They could run out of money andthe people on the line, that's
striking, they might not get apaycheck.
That's happened in the past,absolutely.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
And the other thing that could happen is the federal
government could fund it.
You know they're talking about.
What is it?
The writer strike in Californiaright now.
The state of California isthinking about paying those
people unemployment.
Well, I could, you know, Icould easily see the federal
government doing the same thingfor these people out on strike.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
All right time to change directions here on the
In-Wheel Time Talk Show.
Let's talk about the race card.
You know racing season isbeginning to wrap up.
Yep, wind it out.
Erica is currently qualifiednumber one in pro stock in the
current drag race With a 649,which is just tremendous time.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
She's the only one in the 640s.
That's Maple Grove this weekend, nhra.
You'll be able to see it on Foxbroadcast and FS1.
Bristol night races tonight,which is always good.
Bristol being a short track,they'll be pushing each other
around and no doubt tempers willflare.
Next weekend NASCAR will be atTexas and then December, or,
(20:15):
excuse me, october 1st, it'll beat Talladega.
Formula one this weekend is inSingapore and then next weekend
they're in Japan.
Imsa is at the Indianapolisroad course, the old F1 course.
So the Cadillac DPIs, theCorvette and stuff will all be
(20:35):
at Indianapolis this weekend.
And then a Fast ladies part 2,nascar Indy car finished, they
had their Laguna seca andthey're done for the season.
Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Must be nice, all right.
By the way, the in-wheel timerace card is sponsored by Texas
nostalgia modified Production.
You know we're talking aboutassembly plants a minute ago in
the strike and everything, butwhen the assembly plants are up
and running, jeff has a featureon the top producing assembly.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I've got the top six due to time.
There's several others that youcould go top 10, top 15, but I
did this just because of that,because the lead in article and
the gentleman from Ford and allthat good stuff.
So let's get this going.
And the number six is a GeneralMotors plant.
Now, none of these photos haveanything to do with what we're
talking about, so they're justrandom shots.
(21:25):
General Motors plant Fort Wayneis a Roanoke Indiana plant.
They produce 307 1454 cars.
Fort Wayne is the busiestGeneral Motors plant in America.
It is responsible for thecompany's two large pickup
trucks, which would be the GMCSierra and the Chevrolet
Silverado.
It is a 2.85 million squarefoot factory and it opened in
(21:46):
1986 you know how many squarefeet that is?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
you can't stand at one end of the factory and see
the other end.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
When you're inside and it's relatively automated.
There's a lot of computer stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Number five is Toyota , georgetown, kentucky 350,000
889 cars.
Toyota has long Manufacturedmany of its cars in America,
including the top-selling Camry,the midsize.
The Camry is assembled at theplants Toyota's Toyota plant at
7.5 million square foot plant inGeorge yeah, it's the largest
(22:18):
plant outside of the one inJapan.
Now that's the Fort Streetplant.
That's where my dad worked,that's where I work, that's my
brother worked.
Is it still there?
It's no, it's level, that'sgone.
But this is the one that we'retalking about now.
Number four is the Nissan NorthAmerica in Smyrna, tennessee,
333,392 vehicles.
Smyrna is one of the oldestForeign auto plants in the US,
(22:41):
with the production startingback in June of 1983.
It's also the second highestproducing foreign-owned factory
in the country, thanks in partto the Nissan Altima not UAW,
not UAW Close that they produceall kinds of things the
Pathfinder, the frontier, theMaxima and also the Nissan
Altima.
So those are the ones for that,for the Nissan plant.
(23:03):
Number three is Hyundai.
Hyundai Motor Manufacturing inAlabama, montgomery, alabama,
342,162 cars.
They may be designed andengineered in South Korea, but
they Hyundai, alantra and Sonataare both assembled in the US.
The two million square footfactory was officially opened in
(23:26):
May 2005.
This was all built on ahandshake.
Number two we talked about itand was Brian from Ford.
Ford Dearborn plant in Dearborn, michigan.
343,888 cars this is a Dodgepicture, by the way.
It opened in 2004.
(23:46):
The Dearborn truck plant is hometo America's best-selling
vehicle, the Ford F1 series.
Last year they put together323,415 copies of the F series
and then 473 copies of the nowdefunct Lincoln Mark LT pickup.
It's a 203 million square footfloor space for that particular
(24:07):
plant.
Been there now.
Number one, and we talked aboutit earlier the Ford Kansas City
assembly plant in Clay Como,missouri, not the Kansas City
side, but the Missouri side.
460,338 vehicles.
Henry Ford, who pioneered themoving assembly line, would
surely be proud to see FordMotor Company factories on this
(24:28):
list.
If you go to the top ten Fordson there, three times General
Motors, only on there once.
It is a 4.7 million square footplant.
It also produces all of theFord F series.
That's the Rouge plant rightthere.
Look at that healthy thingthere, boy.
I'll tell you what.
Do you want to?
Go there and breathe that air.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Well, I'll tell you, at the time that I went there,
it was a new plant it they hadtorn down the original Rouge
River plant, which was theactual first plant that Henry
put together right right thereacross from Windsor Ontario, and
they made the frames, they cutthe wood, they made the glass
(25:10):
produce their own electricity.
Yeah and and formed their ownsteel and everything.
They did everything at theRouge River assembly.
Now.
And that's why the river was red, because they dumped all that
waste into the river and all ofthe All of the property is still
there, although there's a lotof it that's not used anymore,
because you could just imagineall those other factories that
(25:30):
supplied it the Rouge Riverfactory, that, that, the, they
just Took up a lot of space inthis part of land.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Well, and then in the Texas area we have Arlington
assembly plant that builds GMsport utilities, and they're
about to expand urban, yeah.
And then the San Antonio plantfor Toyota builds tundra's and
Tacomas Yep.
And then there's a tree plantin Shreveport, Louisiana as well
, which is just across the Texasborder and don't leave out the
(26:02):
Tesla plant.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah, you could do research, you could get to top
50, the top 20, whatever you'relooking for in that category of
what information you need.
I did six for time.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
So it's gonna have an impact on Texas as well.
The strike is, they say, forevery employee on strike there's
six to ten ancillary people whoare impacted by it.
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