askchapo

fuck the tariff. US automakers obliterated themselves and are trying to make it a global suicide pact.

they turned into banks pushing financial products, cannibalized their domestic production capacity and undermined the social reproduction of their own labor force. they hollowed out their product value and, despite the relative power of organized labor in the UAW compared to like... everybody but cops, they gutted their workers too. i'm not going to let the crisis of US automaker capital formations be reframed as an attempt to protect american autoworkers or anyone in the working class. there might be an argument if 100% of these tariff revenues were going to renewable transportation infrastructure, but i would still call that regressive and perverse.

i understand the logic behind the UAW supporting the tariff and wouldn't tell them not to, but it can barely even be considered a near term solution unless their contracts start pushing for

• significant worker power on the boards, like >50%
• ultimately licensing / adopting tech for renewables into production.

it's pretty clear the capitalists have never given a fuck about long term viability of any of these organizations, so of course the only way they'll make a good decision is if they are shoved to the side by the people investing their time and hoping for a future.

i don't think a typical production worker gives a shit about who signs the check or who invented the technology, if the wage is right, the checks clear, and the work is safe. plants could be cranking out windmill dynamos, tidal turbines, solar panels, battery tech, grid connected vehicles, or cheap EVs. that is what is gonna do for us all.