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The unions in the West aren’t exactly helping - not unlike when the Japanese automakers began importing to USA. The rattle in your (ill fitting) 1980s car door might be a beer bottle. Now, manufacturing and QA processes have improved, but the unions aren’t spearheading and championing reskilling to electric vehicles. I believe in unions, but I also am personally aware of how they can be abused to keep bad workers on the job.
Business leaders and the dealers do in fact own the responsibility for losing to EVs, though. The unions demand a fair wage, but the business leaders still want to have profit margins growing every quarter. Investment in R&D is seen as an unnecessary expense.