They can't buy Chinese cars now, but I imagine the next Democratic president mig...

bluGill · 2026-01-20T03:59:53 1768881593

The next democrat still has ford and gm - with a lot of union labor - to worry about.

bluedino · 2026-01-20T13:57:30 1768917450

More people work for Target than the UAW

bluGill · 2026-01-20T14:25:28 1768919128

UAW pays better and is politically more powerful. They care more about UAW than Target employees

bluedino · 2026-01-20T15:23:52 1768922632

> UAW pays better

In some cases:

Target - in 2022 we enhanced our starting pay again, offering a range of $15 to $24 per hour

UAW wages at the big three automakers start at $18 and top out in the $30's. Meanwhile, UAW jobs at suppliers can start as low as $14/hr. You're probably not going to get 20-30 hours of overtime a week at Target, though.

Only 150,000 of the 380,000 UAW members are employed by the big three.

You also have union skilled trades jobs (electricians, millwrights, etc) that make more than production workers but Target pays their electricians etc more than the retail workers as well.

fooker · 2026-01-20T05:45:50 1768887950

American foreign policy has been remarkably consistent over the last several decades.

Sometimes it’s the carrot and sometimes it’s the stick but the policies remain the same.