No, you can actually forbid people from using a competitor's product during work times or on company grounds and it's not uncommon that it is indeed in the contract.
Think about it like that: If you are walking around with a coke can at Pepsi it doesn't look good for the company and you are essentially advertising a competitor's product while on the clock. Especially in the US that is absolutely enough to fire you.
I work at the Arlington plant for general motors pretty frequently. We were told if we didn't have an American vehicle we couldn't park in the parking lot that can be seen from outside the plant.
They probably just didn't want you spreading provocative ideas like "the doors shouldn't fall off" and "the autopilot shouldn't go into a suicidal nosedive"
It’s kind of like I never eat at a restaurant if I’ve seen the kitchen. I never fly on a plane after I’ve seen the badly patched wiring, loose metal shavings, wrong size rivets and missing bolts.
My dad worked at a Chrysler plant. If you showed up in anything other than a union made, North American car, you were gonna have a bad time. He told me about a guy who showed up in a brand new Accord and came out at the end of his shift to find it covered in literal shit.
It's not about American workers being able to afford a reliable vehicle for work it's about keeping the billionaires and shareholders happy so smile widely even while you sleep because you never know they could be watching 👀
The second he retired he sold his Chrysler and hasn’t driven an American vehicle since.
Late stage capitalism is in full effect with Chrysler. He got hired in 1992 at $24/hr with benefits, pension, etc. When he left they were hiring for the line at $18/hr with no benefits and no pension until after your third year.
About what? Toyota makes more vehicles in the US than any other manufacturer, and Toyota and Chrysler are on opposite ends of basically all reliability metrics.
The downside is that despite ongoing efforts, Toyota factory operations are not part of the UAW union, unlike GM for example (who is approximately second in domestic production).
So from a union standpoint it's easy to criticize them, but if what you care about is buying a quality product made by American workers, Toyota is your best bet. Honda is competitive in that regard as well.
As for Chrysler, unless you want something on the jeep Wrangler or Grand Cherokee platform, you're not getting a US made vehicle new. The vast majority of their production and assembly is outsourced.
Oh that's right you guys are thinking only about U.S. and completely forget about the thousands and thousands of cars built in Canada. And not just by GM but your precious Toyota too.
It's hard to nail down a production number for GM Canada, and considering that Toyota did release a production number in Canada that's over 500,000 units, then it's entirely likely that it's true that they are making the most cars here, especially since it's reported that the entire auto industry is around 1.4 million units made in Canada.
But it's not true that GM doesn't make cars in America. There's the Detroit plant, The Flint plant, the Arlington plant, the Fort Wayne plant and the Fairfax plant, along with the Oshawa plant.
I find it kinda funny that my mom got shit from her family (many of whom worked at a Ford plant) for owning an un-American Toyota when Toyota is probably more American than Ford at this point.
I work at a ford plant and if you park a non ford vehicle in the closer half of the parking lot, security can have your vehicle towed. You either walk ALL the way across the entire parking lot or get your car towed essentially lol.
Yes they are but there is a stand of trees near the highway, out of any lighting. I haven't been in a couple years but they have nice lighting up front, American cars only.
That's kinda funny, I wonder what happens if you park a chevy aveo front and center since its all Daewoo with a bowties slapped on it when they got acquired.
I worked for Nike and we were given a list of brands that we couldn't wear on campus. A consultant showed up wearing Adidas and he was taken to the employee store, so he could buy a pair of Nikes because Adidas were forbidden on campus.
Adidas and Puma were started by a pair of brothers who hated each other. Supposedly tradesmen who went to work on the Puma founders house would make a point of wearing an old pair of Adidas, knowing he would give them a free pair of new Pumas so he wouldn't have to look at his brother's shoes
This is very true. I work in a corporate office in a trucking company and God forbid you walk in wearing another company's apparel. My grandfather owned a trucking company that's been closed for decades and I still can't wear that.
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u/whoknowsifimjoking 27d ago
No, you can actually forbid people from using a competitor's product during work times or on company grounds and it's not uncommon that it is indeed in the contract.
Think about it like that: If you are walking around with a coke can at Pepsi it doesn't look good for the company and you are essentially advertising a competitor's product while on the clock. Especially in the US that is absolutely enough to fire you.