Will UAW Strike?

[Gale Hawkins]

International Longshore and Warehouse US dockworkers union files for bankruptcy

With Toyota and Tesla's commitment to design automotive factories with max use of robotics going forward one could wonder about union futures if they do not make the huge leap in the transition to EVs.

 

[bnold]

Trouble is with a 4 door truck with an 8' bed is that it's HUGE. I can't imagine it's much fun to try and park, realistically you need 2 spaces for it. Fine if you need something that big, but most of us don't. Agree that the the 4 foot beds you see on the compact 4 door trucks are pretty useless. To me a 6.5' is a good compromise. Personally, I don't need or even particularly want a 4 door truck, but not much of anyone makes extended cab trucks anymore.

Ram 4x4 Crew Cab Long Bed here, believe that is the longest conventional truck Ram makes?…

As long as you can learn to back into parking spaces, really non bad for 95+% of parking.

Downtown parallel parking or garages are what get you. There is an architect in Dallas that I could get in the garage just fine, but had to go ‘out’ the ‘in’ due to an impossible hairpin turn to exit.

For the most part I park away from folks if possible, trucks are too dang expensive for me to handle close situation door dings. Makes me want to ding someone’s forehead.


However… bed size for what you haul…
4’ is right for some, 6 or 6.5’ for others, 8’ for me, longer flatbeds for others.

Isn’t it terrible when we have choices and not everyone has the same needs or thoughts as us?

EV and ICE… have both, each have their place in my line up. If it doesn’t fit your use, I suggest you don’t buy it.

 

[Hay Dude]

Ram 4x4 Crew Cab Long Bed here, believe that is the longest conventional truck Ram makes?…

As long as you can learn to back into parking spaces, really non bad for 95+% of parking.

Downtown parallel parking or garages are what get you. There is an architect in Dallas that I could get in the garage just fine, but had to go ‘out’ the ‘in’ due to an impossible hairpin turn to exit.

For the most part I park away from folks if possible, trucks are too dang expensive for me to handle close situation door dings. Makes me want to ding someone’s forehead.


However… bed size for what you haul…
4’ is right for some, 6 or 6.5’ for others, 8’ for me, longer flatbeds for others.

Isn’t it terrible when we have choices and not everyone has the same needs or thoughts as us?

EV and ICE… have both, each have their place in my line up. If it doesn’t fit your use, I suggest you don’t buy it.

Sounds great. Now what do you do when oppressive government, both elected and bureaucrats, begin mandating one (EV) over the other (ICE)?
Then we HAVE to buy it.
Happening in some states.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Talk of strike running into 2024.

 

[lilranch2001]

As a former member of the UAW, I have absolutely no sympathy for the strikers.

Hopefully I will not need to buy another new vehicle in my lifetime either

 

[ruffdog]

As a former member of the UAW, I have absolutely no sympathy for the strikers.

Hopefully I will not need to buy another new vehicle in my lifetime either

You certainly benefited from past negotiations though.

 

[Torvy]

I don't think it going to 2024 is a big surprise. What would likely stop that is people having no money and wanting to work or intervention by DC.

 

[Torvy]

You certainly benefited from past negotiations though.

Who can say? Maybe if allowed to negotiate his own pay and be rewarded for excellence performance, he would have done better.

 

[lilranch2001]

You certainly benefited from past negotiations though.

Actually I did, and did not.

I endured the strike that the UAW broke IH, and they closed the local plant soon after the strike ended.

It was the worlds largest truck plant and within just a few years it was closed down, along with the Scout plant

Many times there are not as many benefits to the members as the union leadership like to promote

 

[lilranch2001]

Who can say? Maybe if allowed to negotiate his own pay and be rewarded for excellence performance, he would have done better.

Agreed, just a few short years later I hired on at a small local manufacturing plant, and within 4 years was the manufacturing manager, and 10 years later was a Director of Manufacturing making a much much higher salary than I ever would have yielded from IH.

The small plant was purchased by a huge Wall Street chemical company in 1994 so I was at the right place at the right time

I cannot say the same for many of my peers from IH though, most of them struggled to retirement