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Toyota sold about 336,000 Camrys.
They sold a little over 110,000 Tundras.
About 200,000 Tacomas.
And Ford gets GIANT markups on the F150s, they are super profitable for them and the best selling truck for many many years now. Toyota, Honda aren't even close to American truck and SUV sales.
So explain to me again how US autos aren't competitive with Japanese brands?
I've never heard of these people being lazy, not wanting to work etc.
In fact German engineering is the envy of the world!
VW, Mercedes, BMW, Porsche all German engineered and manufactured by heavily unionized workforces!
Sounds like your anecdotal bad experience with unions is not representative of reality.
And FWIW I can list you just as many terrible anecdotes about how awful business managers are...
Ford sold about 900,000 F150 in 2019 alone. That's not even counting 250s and higher.
And these trucks and SUVs are WILDLY profitable!
And they are made with union labor...
I just don't get it since "the uaw people literally avoid any kind of work"
How do they build millions of trucks and SUVs then?
And they were wildly profitable, and successful, one of the largest and most successful businesses in the entire world!
Toyota also has a large unionized workforce in many places!
They've also been wildly successful for many decades!
I'm really not getting this "wither and stagnate" argument.
Unless you mean if Tesla is unionized maybe in 60 years they will be disrupted by a new upstart firm.
Well...ok but that has nothing at all to do with unions.
A US Senator threatening to retaliate and break-up a business because she didn't like tweets about her is straight-up authoritarian thuggery.
It's the same shit Trump used to do but when Liz does it...well it's GREAT, she's "fighting for the working class"