▪️The average wage for a car manufacturing worker is $32.80/hr according to the BLS. While it’s possible some auto workers make $16/hr, UAW workers start at $18/hr and quickly grow. If workers somewhere are making $16, it’s likely not for long.
https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iagauto.htm
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/07/gm-offers-wage-increases-hefty-bonuses-uaw.html
▪️$32.80/hr comes to $262/day, a 72% increase over 1914. Not including all the benefits which didn’t exist back then, although most workers in 1914 didn’t pay any federal taxes so they could at least keep the money they earned.
▪️Auto workers would be wise to remember the reason why Ford could increase pay to $5/day. His innovations dramatically increased efficiency, reducing the time it took to make a Model T from 12.5 hrs to 93 min. It was this change in productivity which enabled the massive raises.
▪️Also, the $5/day initiative was actually a profit sharing plan. Workers who made $2.30/day under the old pay schedule still made that wage. But if they met all of the company’s requirements, Ford gave a bonus of $2.70/day. The wage itself also incentivized increased productivity.
https://www.thehenryford.org/explore/blog/fords-five-dollar-day/
▪️Auto workers, like so many other industries, are renegotiating contracts after wages have been eroded by inflation in recent years. They are demanding, deserve, and will likely get, significant raises. Negotiations are always contentious, but pretending like auto workers were better off in 1914 is delusional.
As with the leftist freak out over “banned books” this is not banning books, it’s still easy to get Harry Potter and bookstores should be able to limit whatever books they want for whatever reason. But not only does it show a double standard, the rationale is far less justifiable than removing certain content from school libraries. At least there the justification was the content of certain books are inappropriate for children, clearly not every book should be available in a school library. Here, there’s no argument about the content they just don’t like the author’s politics!
Because news came out about his letter to the FBI, revealing he was a nutcase. The letter was rambling and incoherent, claiming he was trained by the US military off the books, and that Walz had instructed him to kill Amy Klobuchar so he could run for Senate. None of it made any sense (Walz is not running for Senate) and none of the assassinations made any sense, even in a diabolical way.
Nearly all of his hit list was Democrats (including Walz) and abortion clinics, but he was supposedly working for Walz?! Plus, one of the guys he killed wasn’t even on his list, and others were no longer in office or deceased. None of it makes sense from any coherent angle.
Basically, it appears the guy was mentally ill and neither the left or right can use the incident to push their agendas anymore, so the story was dropped.
This is so dumb. First, this means LA began as Spanish land founded to support Spanish missions (i.e. colonialism). Which contradicts their entire premise. But the reality is that Los Angeles is a quintessential American city.
▪️When the US acquired California in the 1840s, LA was a small town of less than 2,000 people. It was basically nothing. It became large only after the gold rush and the railroads completed in the 1870-80s, which brought thousands of new settlers and a booming commercial center.
▪️But LA had a major issue limiting its growth, no water. It wasn’t until Mulholland found a water source and built an aqueduct down from Northern California that LA had the infrastructure to grow into a major city.
▪️Then, a combination of oil, real estate and the film industry caused it to boom in the early 1900s. Post WWII, industries like aerospace continued its spectacular growth. Calling this “Mexican land” is a brain dead take. Neither the Mexicans, Spanish nor ...
