Strike for your jobs!

To all my Jewish readers out there, L’Shana Tovah. Now that’s out of the way, September 2019 has ended and we have somebody to induct into the Sick Phoque Club. That somebody is General Motors. Here’s a little backstory: At a July 2017 rally in Youngstown, Ohio, President Donald Trump told his supporters not to sell their homes because the factory jobs are ‘‘coming back. They’re all coming back.’’ But a few miles away, a General Motors factory has since closed, no longer producing the Chevy Cruze. Two other GM factories in Michigan and Maryland have also stopped production. Needless to say, manufacturing jobs have not come roaring back since Trump took office. The president’s tariff war has made imports more expensive for US manufacturers, and now the industry is shrinking. Last year, GM said it would slash 14,000 jobs in North America, and would move forward with plans to build the Chevy Blazer in Mexico. Nearly 50,000 GM auto workers are now on strike, trying to accomplish what the president could not. From Georgia to Michigan, outside more than 50 US factories, they are picketing around the clock, venting their anger over the company’s recent decisions. They are demanding - among other things - that GM keep jobs in the US and reopen its idled factories. And they better do it or they won’t have any workers anywhere.