I don't know whether you realize it or not, but frames for Ford's truck products--from the Explorer to the F-150's to who-knows-what-else--are built by subcontractors. Magna (from Canada), Dana,and Tower Automotive [formerly AOSmith] produce these frames at such places as Elizabethtown and Bowling Green, KY...and Tower used to produce them at plants in Granite City,IL and Corydon,IN.
Main difference is that the subcontractors's assembly lines are off Ford premises. And Dana and Tower plants have (or had) UAW contracts as well; it's just that, where the wages at Ford average $29 an hour [wages only], the UAW workers at Tower and Dana make $10-15 an hour less.
And Tower has a frame-making facility inside the Nissan plant in Mississippi plant where the Nissan Titan pickup truck is built.
So it's not as if the American manufacturers are strangers, even within American borders, to building vehicles with subcontractors, or with subcontractors inside their own plants. The video is a bit misleading, as the UAW representing Dana or Tower employees is the same UAW that represents Ford workers...and the UAW gets the same percentage contribution to the International union from the Dana and Tower workers as from the Ford workers, so it's not as if the UAW is going to object to UAW workers from subcontractors working under the same roof with UAW workers from Ford.
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