shipping costs barely moved as they’ve imposed drastic reductions in pollution from all sea-going ships, so I think that’s a little overblown...

To be a bit more accurate, the high pollution levels you are referring to from the supercontainer ships was sulfur compounds only, not all types of pollution.

And they have passed regulations to address sulfur emissions from ships worldwide.  They’ve been tightening standards already, and we’re close to the 89%…

Pretty much all? That’s an extreme exaggeration not supported by any objective data.  All major sources show that, yes, they were unreliable for a modern transmission, but it was still a relatively small % that failed, and those problems have been solved now...

By that logic, why does any automaker ever have any recalls? They should all have it right by now, right?

New designs bring new potential problems.

Especially since future cashflow still looks to be highly negative...

Sooo.... he’s impressed that they built a low-quality vehicle at a high price, WAY over what they advertised and promised, and are making money from it?

That sounds almost like being impressed that Walmart makes money selling low quality crap at inflated prices.

You’re still clueless. You substituted to an unrelated issue where there was no negative threat involved and then said “see, its only negative if you have a bias!”

Oh, and why should you benefit from union-negotiated rights, benefits, and coverage without compensating them a (small) amount for their work?

You’re beyond…

So in your extremely warped worldview, he could essentially say:

“I won’t install devices to rip your arms off if you don’t join a union.” and that’s perfectly fine? My god, you have no understanding of the law, do you?

And you also clearly don’t understand that the union is REQUIRED BY LAW to give you FULL…

You know how John Roberts could have shown courage?

At Trump’s press conference with Theresa May when Trump attacked CNN as fake news and went straight to John Roberts, Roberts could have stood up and shown a spine then and rebutted it or even asked Jim Acosta’s question for him to prevent Cheeto Benito from evading…

So you don’t think its a threat that if the workers would unionize he wouldn’t fix the problem and they’d have to take collective action like a strike to try to fix it? How do Musk’s boots taste, exactly?

And with your nolo.com post, you just proved me CORRECT.   You cannot be forced to join a union, it says it right…

WOW. How uninformed can one person be?

His statement was CLEAR. He’ll fix the problem if you don’t unionize. The alternative is simply he won’t fix the problem if you unionize. If he was going to fix it in either case, it would be “I’ll fix your problem”. Period. No conditional on not doing something you have the right…

You’re delusional. He clearly stated he would fix the problems if they don’t form a union. That’s a threat. plain and simple.

You’re giving far too much credit to someone who is showing more and more sociopathic tendencies like baselessly calling someone a pedophile.

And you’ve completely fallen for the right-wing…

You think the Tundra would outsell the F-series on retail only?

Overall, Ford sells roughly 1/3 of its vehicles to fleets. 15% of its total sales go to rentals, the rest of the fleet sales are government or business, which are highly profitable sales - and discounting them is absurd. I’d wager that rental fleet sales…

F-650 and -750  are counted under the “heavy duty truck” sales figures.  F-550 and down are counted as F-series, IIRC.

Sorry, but you’re simply repeating right-wing anti-union diatribes now...

If you think Musk is for workers voting, you’re out of your mind...

And yes, there IS such a law, and it has NOTHING to do with “right to work” states. It is not legal in ANY state for management to threaten workers with retaliation over unionization... and saying you’ll fix the problems IF they don’t unionize is…

You missed the point. The UNION has to pay reasonable costs for his representation (even if he loses)

pfft... I agree that the goal should be that no workers find unions necessary because management should treat them well enough to avoid it. That said, I also think that unions still serve a critical purpose and workers’ rights to collectively bargain should not be abridged. This was clearly a threat if he worded it as…

The “reasons” for overturning Abood were tortured at best, and certainly not substantial.

So you think its a winning strategy long term?  There’s a remote possibility it might improve employment in a VERY long timeframe - but a HIGH probability it destroys the economy in the short, mid, and even long term.  And you want to take that risk?