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        home > news > Automakers > UAW Willing to Move Forward With EVs – With a Few Caveats, Gamble Says

        UAW Willing to Move Forward With EVs – With a Few Caveats, Gamble Says

        Union President Gamble offers tepid support for new vehicles.

        Joseph Szczesny
        Joseph Szczesny , Executive Editor
        Feb. 10, 2021
        UAW President Rory Gamble
        UAW President Rory Gamble said he expressed the union’s concerns about EVs to the Biden administration.

        The United Auto Workers has reservations about the auto industry’s push into electric vehicles — and it raised them directly with the Biden administration — UAW President Rory Gamble said during a webinar organized by the Automotive Press Association in Detroit.

        Gamble said the union knows technology is changing rapidly, and it is willing to embrace the shift. But at the same time, the union has a duty “to protect our members’ standard of living,” he said, which is one of the reasons the UAW would prefer to learn more about the specifics of their future from companies, such as General Motors.

        GM has pledged to be carbon neutral by carbon and stop building vehicles with internal combustion engines by 2035. “We’d like to see more detail,” said Gamble, as he modified an earlier comment during the conference in which he suggested GM was being too aggressive.

        Union wants more insight into EV plans

        There’s significant room to expand Chevy Bolt EV production at GM’s Orion Assembly Plant.

        The union is not going to stand in the way of changing technology, he said.

        The biggest question is whether the market is going to accept battery electric vehicles, said Gamble, adding plans should include a mixture of vehicles with a broader variety of propulsion systems.

        Gamble added he was old enough to remember what happened after the oil crisis of the 1970s when Detroit carmakers shifted suddenly to building smaller cars that did not appeal to consumers.

        “I remember that. Our members were the ones who suffered,” said Gamble, adding the UAW is in the midst of updating of a study it did in 2018 on the potential impact of electric vehicles on the UAW’s future membership.

        Working with the Biden administration

        In addition, Gamble said he relayed his concerns about jobs and maintaining strong auto industry during the switch to electric vehicles directly to the Biden administration. With the Biden administration, Gamble added he can now pick up a phone and get someone on the line to discuss critical issues. “There is a lot of dialogue,” he said.

        The union did not have that with the Trump administration, he said.

        President Joe Biden
        Gamble said there is “a lot of dialogue” between the UAW and the Biden administration.

        Battling COVID

        Gamble also noted the union is working with the administration and the Detroit’s automakers to carry on the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced manufacturers to close their factories in the spring.

        Stellantis has already opened a vaccine distribution site in a medical facility adjacent to its assembly plant in Belvidere, Illinois, west of Chicago, and GM and Ford Motor Co. are making plans to vaccinate their employees. Autoworkers are essential to economy, he said.

        While it continues to insist on practices to keep workers safe, such as wearing masks and maintaining social distancing, Gamble does not want vaccination to become a condition of employment. “We have a lot of anti-vaxxers,” he noted.

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        One response to “UAW Willing to Move Forward With EVs – With a Few Caveats, Gamble Says”

        1. MAF says:
          February 11, 2021 at 6:49 pm

          BEVs are a real threat to the UAW because they have many fewer parts to assemble, and many of the parts they do have (battery cells, motor windings) are made by highly automated lines. I don’t think there is much that Biden can offer them other than perhaps on-shore manufacturing of things like wind turbines and solar panels–but there is no guarantee those plants will be UAW represented.

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