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https://www.wsj.com/articles/cal ... et-tesla-1505677365
California Democrats have finally found a cause that’s worth suspending
their environmental passions. The United Automobile Workers are struggling
for a presence in Tesla’s Fremont plant, and organized labor has called in
a political favor.
Since 2010 California has offered a $2,500 rebate to encourage consumers to
buy electric vehicles. But last week, at unions’ behest, Democrats
introduced an amendment to cap-and-trade spending legislation that would
require participating manufacturers to get a sign-off from the state labor
secretary verifying that they are “fair and responsible in their treatment
of workers.”
The legislation, which passed Friday, is a direct shot at Tesla. The Clean
Vehicle Rebate Project has amounted to a $82.5 million subsidy for the
company, giving extra incentive to 32,842 Tesla buyers in seven years.
Tesla’s sales have been built with taxpayer support. When Hong Kong cut
back its electric-vehicle tax credits earlier this year, Tesla sales dropped
to zero in April from nearly 3,000 the month earlier. And when Denmark
scaled back incentives last year, electric-car sales plummeted by 70%.
The labor secretary in California is hand-picked by unions and their
Democratic allies, and last month the UAW and a few auto workers filed a
complaint against Tesla with the National Labor Relations Board, alleging
unfair labor practices.
But the plant’s employees are doubtless aware of the union’s abysmal
record in Fremont, which stretches back decades. In the early 1980s, the
union’s control was so complete that General Motors couldn’t fire even
workers who drank, used drugs and had sex at the Fremont plant. Roughly one
in five workers failed to show up on any given day. The plant closed in 1982
—no surprise. Auto workers got a second shot with a GM-Toyota joint venture
, but that was shuttered in 2010.
A record of closures and corruption contributed to the UAW’s defeat last
month at a Mississippi Nissan plant, where workers voted nearly two-to-one
against the union. Organized labor needs political coercion because it can’
t win over workers on its own. As for electric cars and green subsidies,
what progressive politicians give away with one hand they want to
redistribute with another.
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楼主
发表于 2017-4-29 17:11
体验新东西的代价吧哈哈哈哈
