The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville reported recently that the United Auto Workers plans to help promote picketing against the dealerships of non-unionized foreign automakers that have manufacturing plants in the South.
That’s a strange tactic, since the dealerships themselves do not employ the workers who actually assemble the vehicles.
But the UAW’s timing of the picketing is equally strange.
As you may remember, it wasn’t very long ago that the hard-earned dollars of American taxpayers were used to bail out some of the major U.S. automakers.
Those automakers had gotten into financial trouble in part because they had unsustainable union contracts that made them much less competitive with a number of foreign car manufacturers.