I missed this earlier but I’ll leave a response because I believe that when you think something good about someone you should say it.
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My dad and I wrenched all the time, even when I was so tiny I could hardly walk, my job was to hold the hubcap when he took off the wheel lugs (yes, just like the movie).
Fake. If these were actually Fleetwood Mac members on a hunting expedition they would have the divorce attorneys who represented their exes strapped across the hood.
Either that or they’re hunting the driver and his fiance. The most dangerous game.
As a contractor in the system we have this problem as well. The big three will not get or give us their proprietary material even though most of it is COTS . on further analysis it is found that the bits and parts are in the public domain but they go so far as to grind the identification off of the parts and remove…
Yeah, Oshkosh owns Motor T’s ass. My battalion had three JLTVs get deadlined for mechanical failures at 29 Palms, and then another eleven get deadlined for a safety recall, leaving us in the middle of an exercise with 60% of our normal complement of JLTVs and having to fly a team of three Oshkosh mechanics out and…
Welcome to the world of the Military Industrial Complex that Eisenhower warned the US about. The need of right-to -repair is huge, and the military doesn’t need an extra step in the process. Having well taught technicians should be a priority, and those well-taught technicians could do well after their service. …
This started in the early 2000's, more work required contractors and not service members to do work. I was one of the last few sailors trained on administration of an important SIPRnet system. At the time there were almost no forward deployed service members with the training and no contractors available for it. By…
Most of their pen products are BIC, which does manufacture in the US.
As someone who used to be a salesman for a UAW-represented print shop locatedi the home city of the Sit-down Strikers, I can unequivocally say that the union would NOT knowingly have approved pens made in China.
I’m not really sure this qualifies as mocking one’s political views. This dude stuck his neck out there and claimed the crookedest union in the country was somehow inherently good. It is possibly the most ridiculous, and unsubstantiated, statement, by a staff writer, that I have read on this website.
No one is in any position to laugh at anyone’s political views.
Seems like those workers are less pissed that the pens are made in China and more pissed about the how the UAW only wants made in the US stuff but this happens.
That’s the employer’s responsibility. But you better believe that the UAW leans heavily on those employers to Buy American there too. Which is what makes this faux pas all the more egregious.
Big, if true. Seriously though, that’s a good take. If they’re having a self-aware moment then yes, it’s a really good point.
This may not change the future of Western civilization, but this is a monumental fuckup. If your public profile is to ask the public to Buy American, you goddam better be buying American yourself.
I was waiting for you to cover the story of the UAW making up a union and requiring its non-union employees, i.e. lawyers and others who don’t typically join unions, to contribute to it. Then it turned out they just took the money and put it in the UAW pot.
These auto workers, think any of them own cell phones? Wonder where those were made..... Or how about the (insert the 10,000 things we all interact with on a daily basis that are all made in China)?
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