WFB: The United Auto Workers are campaigning to disrupt operations for luxury carmaker Tesla in New York.
The UAW has been campaigning to unionize workers at Tesla’s California factory for the past several years but has yet to hold an election. Instead it has pursued political lobbying in an effort to disrupt the electric car company. UAW Region 9 issued a letter decrying legislation in New York that would allow Tesla to distribute vehicles directly to consumers rather than through traditional car dealerships—a cornerstone of the company’s business model. The bipartisan bill would allow the electric car company to operate up to 20 centers across the state.
The letter opens by calling Tesla a “viciously anti-union, anti-worker corporation” and said its business model would hurt workers in the state and put car dealerships at risk. The union said more than 800 businesses rely on the traditional vehicle distribution system to operate and granting Tesla privileges would threaten their livelihoods. read more
Usually the UAW waits for an industry to become profitable before they attempt to destroy it. Socialists are becoming impatient.
Thugs against grifters.
This should be interesting.
Both sides fighting to steal from the taxpayers.
izlamo delenda est …
how is union support of democrats ( read all professional politicians ) who support third world mass immigration, which lowers workers compensation, beneficial to the union members ?
bill,
The WeatherMakers (insulating Union) established an “A” Section and a “B” Section.
The “A” Section was the real, established, insulators who were well-trained in their craft, and the “B” Section held the rat-people, and half-assed insulators who were kept away from asbestos work and gov’t jobs (and paid less).
The Union gets paid either way (actually both ways).
That’s just one example, but I’m sure there are others.
izlamo delenda est …
Ownership of a 35 MPG car over 10 years costs $0.075 per mile. Whereas a Tesla is $0.05/mile in electricity and $0.10/mile in battery degradation = $0.15/mile total.
Throw in the fact Tesla is a luxury car and it pollutes as much if not more than a traditional car.
Throw in the fact that Tesla owners (or Tesla themselves) grab a $7500 incentive from the government per car.
Throw in the fact that when you crash one, it’s likely you’ll be trapped and burned alive.
The problem, that our government and populace thinks is the solution, is the size of the HEAVY battery. Take a 200-mile range battery. It’s not going to be any benefit to the owner or anyone else on the planet until that battery takes the car 180 to 200 miles. It never does because the Tesla owner drives it 60 to 100 miles (or less) and promptly throws it on the charger. Assuming the owner goes 100 miles between charges, that leaves the car carrying around HALF the WEIGHT of a battery cell that sees no use. HALF. That means battery degradation charge actually increases from $.10/mile to $.15/mile.
Go mine some lithium.
On the flipside, you have hybrid cars with a small cell that regenerates to full from a near empty state constantly. This is efficiency. And we have cars with no battery at all which are pretty goddamn efficient still, esp. compared to Tesla.
Impatient is right, cato. Elon Musk is the next John DeLorean.
Sounds like a case of a dying union vowing to take as many as possible with them.
“cars with no battery at all”
I’m stumped on that one. I was groking you until that. Well, that and the 35 mpg car in your example seem like a unicorns to me.
Next up: Elon Musk selling cocaine to undercover cops in a hotel room?
Public Unions = communists.
Fa’keem. Fa’keem all.