The GM strike is really about the switch to electric cars

Re:The GM strike is really about the switch to electric cars by adrianN on Saturday October 05, 2019 @02:42PM (#21167173)

What would be concrete actions that enable someone in their late forties or early fifties to find a new job when the whole industry they've worked in so far basically disappears? Say someone working at a coal plant, or someone assembling ICEs? Who will hire them?

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Re:The GM strike is really about the switch to electric cars by iagovar on Saturday October 05, 2019 @02:58PM (#21167261)

If they don't find anything related, tangential etc, nobody. That's the reality we are facing off.

In Spain several coal mines shut off. The initial idea was to just retire this people. In some cases they made them hop trough some recolocation programs.

IMO retiring people is just cheaper. The administrative overhead of managing this people is not worth the cost.

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Re:The GM strike is really about the switch to electric cars by bdamm on Saturday October 05, 2019 @03:42PM (#21167490)

For a while call centers were popping up in the wake of factory shutdowns.

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Re:The GM strike is really about the switch to electric cars by mfer on Sunday October 06, 2019 @08:16AM (#21171559)

There are programs for this. I know people who have gone through them. I think the issue is they need to be funded. I’d defer to the experts on this.

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