It seems that Biden’s Green New Deal crap embedded in the Inflation Reduction Act is one of the major culprits for the auto workers strike.

The most consequential political force in passing the landmark Inflation Reduction Act last summer was President Joe Biden’s big green base, a coalition of unions, businesses, and environmentalists that he managed to lash together with the clear, simple promise of good jobs in a new, decarbonized economy. Now, on the precipice of what may become the biggest auto strike in years, that green troika is threatening to split apart, imperiling the future of the President’s climate agenda, and his reelection chances.

U.S. labor has been out in force over the past two years, and the United Auto Workers (UAW) union is no exception. If a deal isn’t reached by Thursday night workers may begin striking at some factories. Part of their demands include a big pay bump, but they also want protections from what they see as a looming threat: that the green transition will be used as an excuse to rob them of hard-earned rights.

So, Biden’s climate change push isn’t playing well with the auto workers. This is my shocked face. As we know and are continually finding out, electric vehicles have a horrendous track record. The Ford GM, whose company is losing BILIONS on electric vehicles, found that out the hard way.

No surprise charging can be a challenge, but still learning a lot seeing firsthand the issues our customers face. This is why we’re working w/ @Tesla to provide @Ford drivers access to +12,000 superchargers & our EV certified dealers are installing fast chargers at their… pic.twitter.com/fES15o9orT

— Jim Farley (@jimfarley98) August 13, 2023

As did a Ford EV owner who spent over $130 K on the Ford and electrical upgrades to his home, but ultimately sold the vehicle due to performance issues. 

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and her team had issues, which also involved having the cops called on her! 

Energy Secretary Granholm recently took 4-day EV caravan trip across the southeast to "draw attention to the billions of dollars the White House is pouring into green energy and clean cars."

What happened next is like a scene out of VEEP: pic.twitter.com/D0uuGJjJIl

— Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) September 10, 2023

That said, the economic implications if the auto makers don’t agree to the UAW demands are highly concerning.

What are those demands? Among other things…

• A 32-hour work week with 40 hours of pay
• A 36% pay raise
• New hires to be given the SAME salary as those who’ve been there for years
• Pension Increases 

The push by the Biden Administration for its climate change/Green New Deal crap will cost us all a LOT of money. In order to meet the so-called “demand” the Biden Administration has imposed upon us, the auto makers are spending millions in building battery plants in hopes to be able to meet what they are told will be the demand for EV’s (electric vehicles). 

Those new factories, one in Spring Hill, Tennessee (GM) and the other in Marshall, Michigan (Ford), will create a total of about 4,200 new jobs. But creating those jobs will cost federal and state taxpayers nearly $22 billion. Thus, each new “green” job at the GM plant (which the company is developing with Korea’s LG) will cost taxpayers $7.7 million. Each job at the Ford plant will cost some $3.4 million.

Those are the findings of a scathing new report published a few days ago by Good Jobs First, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit that tracks corporate welfare. The report also found that another plant, being built in Jeffersonville, Ohio by LG and Honda, will create 2,200 jobs, each of which will cost taxpayers some $4.3 million. Further, as can be seen in the graphic below, which I pulled from the report — “Power Outrage: Will Heavily Subsidized Battery Factories Generate Substandard Jobs?” — the average wage at the factories will be about $46,000 per year or about $22 per hour. That’s far less than the wages paid to top union members who work at GM’s engine and transmission plants who earn about $31 per hour.

That is a LOT of money for building EV batteries for cars that we are subsidizing with OUR tax dollars! 

But Joe Biden is supposed to be the UNION PRESIDENT DUDE!

"..I don't see, short of any kind of a miracle, that they're going to call off a strike," said longtime auto analyst John McElroy. So buckle up. https://t.co/Xc6V49kV4J

— Daily Detroit (@TheDailyDetroit) September 15, 2023

Do the UAW members even truly understand that they, along with all US taxpayers, are getting hosed? 

Car companies are pouring billions developing electric cars their clients don't want, career politicians are spending hundreds of billions subsidizing this nonsense, and UAW workers are getting screwed in the process.

Let's avoid strike, end all electric car… pic.twitter.com/ST7S7KWdhM

— Bernie Moreno (@berniemoreno) September 13, 2023

Joe has had one helluva time helping the unions. Thus far during this Administration, they’ve dealt with rail workers, UPS, and now auto workers threatening strikes. Quite the track record isn’t it?

What Biden is left with is, going behind the scenes to urge a deal between the auto companies and union. That said, if there is a strike, it will leave suppliers hanging high and dry. Unless Biden ponies up emergency aid. 

The Washington Post, citing anonymous sources aware of internal conversations, said Biden aides are worried that a protracted strike could wipe out thousands of suppliers that depend on businesses from three key automakers, Ford, General Motors and Stellantis, formerly Fiat Chrysler.

The paper said it was not clear what aid might be offered, but that one option would be for the Labor Department to provide grants to help workers at firms affected by the strike. Another could be for the Small Business Administration to provide favorable loans to these firms.

Again, all of this goes to the issues of the lockdowns and the Green New Deal push. As of this writing, there is no deal and union workers will begin walkouts. 

Feature Photo Credit: Ford Electric charging station for the Mustang Mach-E, Fusion Plug-In and the F-150 Lightning via iStock, cropped and modified