Honda I know isn’t union, and it’s because Honda gives their workers similar treatment to union shops. Management got integrity or something. Every so often the unions go in and test the waters, the Honda workers say no need, we’re already treated well, and the union goes away.
Unions mostly exist as a response to shitty management. That and as a hiring hall, but that concept doesn’t apply to factory work. Construction contract work is where that is useful.
Lol dude, I use Google news every day, and it provides absolutely shit sources on the regular. They run out of legit news sources, they’ll fill in space with nearly anything. Just random click farming blogs written by AI if they need to.
Google News doesn’t ensure legitimacy.
Sympathy strikes happen regularly in construction though, even in America. Basically if the customer is doing something bad to one union shop, the others will show their support.
I was part of one a long time ago. The client company was refusing to deal with a complaint from one contractor. So one day all the other contractors took a day off. Just one day, but the whole project shut down. The union paid me for the day off, and the client decided to move on the outstanding issue. The whole thing though is that it shouldn’t need to become a big enough deal that news services take notice. Give a warning shot, if you will, not a major disruption for anyone involved.
Why would anyone care about that number? The folks who don’t want to join unions don’t have to. A bunch of machinists joined the Machinist’s union, and Tesla is antagonizing them. So the machinists are striking.
Why would it matter whether or not the cafeteria workers don’t want to join the cafeteria union? Or do you just not understand the system? Unions are by profession, not corporation.
The Tesla thing complicates matters because Elon is such a controversial and often disliked figure, and some Tesla owners are basically cult members. So I suspect there’s a certain amount of bias where Tesla Stan=EV owner.
This really depends on what you mean by “long term”. Like the effects of EVs aren’t being felt now, or next year, pretty much at all. Right now consumption is still stable enough that producers can affect the price more than changing demand does.
In the medium term, significant demand drop will put downward pressure on pricing. The problem is that you can’t drop the price much lower before parts of the supply chain start having issues. There’s a lot less truly cheap oil than there used to be, extracting using oil rigs costs a lot for example. So expect it to fluctuate more, but not really cheaper.
And in the truly long term, several decades, it’ll start getting more expensive not just because of the economies of scale mentioned, but as certain current producers start running out of oil. Many Russian wells are already scraping the bottom. Saudi Arabia’a shallowest wells will run dry. So even with significant consumption, it’ll start costing a lot more just to produce a barrel.
Running out of oil isn’t going to be a thing though. Just higher extraction costs. In general oil doesn’t behave like a regular market though, the supply is just too elastic. Can always leave it in the ground.
Volvo is a Chinese company now. The car side was sold to Ford a long time ago, leaving the original Volvo as a commercial truck manufacturer. And then Ford sold that car division to Geely. It’s long removed from the company that built its reputation.