GM layoffs escalate auto industry's global job-cutting campaign amid EV policy shift, tariff chaos

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : In addition to the EV tax credits, the Biden administration provided billions in Department of Energy and other federal loans, grants and tax credits to the automakers and their joint venture partners to build electric battery plants, retool assembly lines for EV production, and secure and refine critical minerals needed for EV batteries.
56% : According to Cox Automotive, third quarter US EV sales hit a record 438,000 and approximately 1.05 million year-to-date, driven by a rush to beat the deadline for the expiration of the $7,500 EV consumer tax credit.
54% : A young electrical worker who took part in the construction of the EV production lines at Lake Orion told the World Socialist Web Site, "I was part of the crew that built those lines, and then they had us tear them down.
53% : The UAW apparatus was silent on GM's layoffs Wednesday and instead boosted Trump's trade war measures on its X platform, blaming plant closures and layoffs on the "free trade disaster.
51% : The company cited "slower near-term EV adoption" and the elimination of federal EV tax credits and easing of emissions rules, while taking a $1.6 billion charge tied to its revised EV strategy.
50% : " In an interview published in Democratic Socialists of America-aligned Jacobin magazine last week, Fain praised Trump's tariffs again, and outlined the Neanderthal outlook of the union bureaucracy.
43% : " In his first day in office, Trump issued an Executive Order, titled, "Unleashing American Energy," that not only encouraged the exploration and production of fossil fuels on federal lands and water, but eliminate the "electric vehicle mandate," terminate "state emissions waivers that function to limit sales of gasoline-power automobiles" and "unfair subsidies and other ill-conceived government-imposed market distortions that favor EVs over other technologies..." As part of the One Big Beautiful Bill this summer, Trump ended $7,500 tax credits for new electric vehicle purchases on September 30, along with $4,000 for used models, seven years earlier than planned by the Biden administration.
40% : Unite workers in the US, China, Mexico, Canada, and Europe against the corporate-state offensive; oppose the drive to war.The socialist reorganization of the auto industry!

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