Alternative heading; Greedy CEOs on their 5 holiday mansion refusal to pay living wages could disrupt EV rollout.
I don’t think many environmentalists are like, “My dream is a car-dominated society but electric.” It’s an improvement, to be sure, but I feel like every (realistic) environmentalist would prefer trains and trolleys to planes and cars.
This seems like one of those situations where every leftist is like, “I think about unions, transportation, and housing.” and the media somehow decides the left is hellbent on forcing people to attend sensitivity training in Smart Cars.
This reminded me of a person online talking about how they didn’t understand why tree-huggers appreciated wind power despite the bird strike numbers - well because climate change itself is a much bigger fish!
Or also because of the bird strike numbers. I believe they are quite low.
Many such complaints were based on an old wind farm in Altamont Pass that did have a serious problem. However it was a mountain pass on a migratory bird route and the towers were open framework with plenty of spots for roosting. Once we stopped those two things, bird losses dropped precipitously.
I believe people making those complaints have also lost perspective. My support for anything to further reduce the remaining bird losses is not inconsistent with the belief that we already well into a better spot.
People making those complaints also seem unable to expand their minds to the huge bird loss from the polluted air pr if we didn’t
EV cars are just a way to keep the “happy motoring” society going with a veneer of environmentalism.
Why should we compromise on labor rights in favor of environmentalism? The latter wouldn’t be such a problem if the former had been taken care of decades ago.
EVs don’t save the environment, they save the car industry.
EV != car. And even those have a use case. Having good EVs is necessary to wean off fossil fuels.
Car industry isn’t going anywhere, regardless. Plus, do you really think vehicles with less maintenance and longer lifespans is going to save the industry?
While I generally support such things, how about because the dominant EV manufacturer is not unionized and these companies are already struggling for relevance? There has to be a balance between treating employees fairly and maintaining a successful business. Hopefully the results will be somewhere in that balance zone
There is no balance. If you can’t treat employees fairly you don’t have a successful business. You have a slave shop
Show me the (unbiased) research that says American auto makers’ problems are having a unionized workforce.
Clearly not, but if they’re already struggling to remain relevant in this transition, paying significantly more to employees won’t help. I mean, they offered 20% raises, UAW counters 40%: let’s all meet at 30% with retraining, job transfer guarantees, insourcing, and get back to work. Given all the press about fewer parts, fewer workers, legacy automakers’ habit of mass layoffs to start over with newer cheaper labor, previous policies of outsourcing to non-union contractors, there’s a lot more to good quality jobs than just the pay
A more honest headline:
Our corporate overlords don’t like unions and environmentalists, so we’re gonna pit those groups against each other.
A strike means less cars period. Environmentalists would be in favor of that.
And in a crazy perfect world maybe even infrastructure for people walking, biking, and taking public transportation.
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Wealth inequality is also among the biggest road blocks to climate action
No shit? A strike would disrupt everything. That’s kind of the point. This article is pure propaganda, appealing to environmentalists, techies, or whoever fancies EVs in an attempt to weaken the union’s efforts to seek reasonable wages.
Shame on politico for sneaking this through by masquerading it as a blight against improving the environment.
Environmentalists support it because they support workers rights. Also, if you really care for the environment you know that EVs are not the solution and will never be the solution for the environment, just the car companies.
Strikes are caused by management.
While true, management is doing the bidding of shareholders, so the ultimate responsibility lies with them.
Shareholder are disrupting EV rollout.
Right. That’s why record profits have accelerated EVs. /s. Don’t fall for that nonsense.
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Environmentalism doesn’t care that much about EVs, because road infrastructure is bad, but when driving really is necessary, EVs are better. Environmentalism supports the strike, because has since long realised that workers struggle similar fights, would be a great ally and might produce popular support for environmentalism.
