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The US automotive conglomerate posted big profits at the backend of 2020, however current international semiconductor shortages are threatening to slow down production.
“They deserve it. That’s according to Mike Huerta, president of United Auto Workers Union Local 602. The local’s 2,400 members build the Chevrolet Traverse, Buick Enclave and GMC Acadia Limited at the Lansing Delta Township plant.
Huerta praises his members for returning to work before much of the country did in the early months of the pandemic. “They’ve gone through a very stressful year and a half, Huerta says, and we’ve come out on the other side of it, knock on wood. Hopefully, as the economy starts opening up, this will continue.”
Huerta voices pride in his members, adding we’re proud of our product, and we’re proud of our membership, who on incredibly difficult circumstances still manages to churn out the best vehicles in the country as far as I’m concerned.”
Forging a new and important social contract to bring the resources of our government, labor and management together is critical now when businesses are failing, unemployment is soaring due to the COVID pandemic and our health-care systems are struggling. This would be a very practical way for President Joe Biden to include unions in critical work to rebuild our economy and to get Americans back to work.
Although seen at times as obstructionist, unions have been in fact crucial players in improving our economy during times of economic crisis. During World War II, our production capacity to manufacture airplanes and tanks was slow and inadequate, threatening our security. Walter Reuther, a member of the United Auto Workers Union, developed a plan along with his co-workers to convert idle car plants to factories manufacturing 500 planes a day. In a matter of weeks after proposing this plan to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, FDR agreed to implement it.