Artificial intelligence is the UAW’s latest life-threatening crisis

By: Rick Haglund

Outlets: Michigan Advance

Published: May 11, 2026

Words: 891

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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It was just a few years ago that electric vehicles posed an existential threat to the powerful United Auto Workers union.

While the UAW supported then-President Joe Biden’s effort move away from gas-powered vehicles to clean-burning, battery-powered EVs, union leaders feared the transition could wipe out tens of thousands of factory jobs.

That’s because EVs have fewer parts than contained in a gas-powered car. A UAW white paper projected that more than 30,000 jobs were …

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