Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) appeared to make a slight dig at her Ohio delegation colleague Sen. J.D. Vance ® during an interaction on a United Auto Workers (UAW) picket line in their home state.
“First time here?” Kaptur asked Vance, according to a video from local station WTVG 13 Action News.
“First time here, yeah,” Vance responded.
“Thank you for coming,” she then said.
The brief conversation followed an awkward interaction during which Kaptur held out a fist as Vance extended an open hand for a shake. Vance then attempted to extend his hand for a fist bump as Kaptur drew her hand back.
Switching to EV is an opportunity for car companies AND labor to get ahead of the global demand curve and create opportunity. Anyone arguing against it should be questioned on their motives and relation to the fossil industry.
It’s like mobile phone makers getting attacked by the rotary phone industry.
The UAW union president Fain just got GM to agree to unionize their EV plants, something even he called “unthinkable” earlier this year. Those plants are going to be union, part of UAW soon.
Ohio senate dude Bros attempt to drive a wedge between gas and EV workers just got completely undermined.
Well, Vance is a shitbrain
EVs do require fewer workers as they have fewer parts. Which is why the UAW demand of a 32 hour work week at the same pay is relevant: less work, so we should work less and maintain jobs.
It is fucking amazing how a militant and democratic leadership (Fain is the first UAW president elected by direct member vote) turned the UAW around.
Their battery plants. This is a huge deal and just days ago everything I read was that this will never happen. Parts and assembly were already likely to be union, but batteries “are outsourced to this subsidiary down south where there are no unions and we can pay less”.
This is also a huge deal because of government subsidies to bring battery manufacturing to US, tax rebates targetting batteries built in US … let’s not just bring more manufacturing back to US but let’s make them good union jobs!
Even if they got no other concessions, this is huge for UAW future, a huge investment into our economic base