For all the good the Inflation Reduction Act has done for US investment, the fundamental issue is we can still lose manufacturing to our neighbors. It seems likely that with the company announcing more investment in Canada and Mexico, those countries were able to garner better incentives than the US and the state of Illinois, which may speak to internal UAW issues as well as political ones.
The Prospect also reported that members have told it things could have been different if the UAW had acted sooner. According to Shawn Fain, challenger to the current UAW president Ray Curry, “The sad reality of this is, over the last year and a half, since President Curry’s been in power, and Vice President Estrada, the company has awarded more than three different products, and Belvidere could have had every one of those,”
