(09-19-2023, 06:42 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote:

(09-18-2023, 12:12 PM)HURRICANE!!! Wrote: This may be addressed in the subsequent communication but our US companies are not looking to pass savings on to us when they move jobs to Mexico or China, they are simply seeking to improve their profitability.  As such, if we are paying $40k for a car made in the US, there's a good chance we will be paying that same $40k after they move the jobs to Mexico (or perhaps they will offer some reductions based on competitiveness).

Personally, if we did recognize a $10k savings passed on to the buyer, I'd definitely buy the $30k vehicle if I don't believe in the UAW position AND I'm not going to simply take the UAWs side just because they are US based.  They need to be relatively reasonable, knowing manufactures have much cheaper options.

I thought that would have been obvious to him after my post. Maybe you explained it better. 

2 more things of note: 1. People often start high in negotiations to take things off the table, so I'm sure at least some of the UAW's requests are intentionally meant to be thrown out. 2. Remember who has power over the narrative... it ain't the workers.

That is not a wholesale defense of this situation. Truth is that I know very little about it. I'm just postulating some alternative ideas about why these demands seem so extreme.

It wasn't obvious because you didn't give me a direct answer.  But I assume from the above that you would buy the car made in Mexico.  I would, too.  And I don't think doing so would harm US jobs, because I would have an extra $10,000 to spend, and a large portion of that would probably go towards US-made products and services.

It's interesting what's happening in the auto industry.  Tesla now sells more cars than anyone else in the world.

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