Freedom Convoy' disruptions cost auto industry $300 million, study says

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Feb 15, 2022
The trucker protests against vaccine mandates that have blocked key trade crossings between Canada and the U.S. have prompted losses of nearly $300,000,000 in wages and production in the automotive industry.

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Freedom Convoy’ disruptions cost auto industry $300 million, study says
Workers missed out on $145 million in wages and car companies lost $155 million because of vaccine mandate protests at key U.S.-Canada trade crossings, a study says.

Bill Kennedy
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The trucker protests against vaccine mandates, promoted & supported by @FoxNews & GOP politicians, that have blocked key trade crossings between Canada and the U.S. have prompted losses of nearly $300,000,000 in wages and production in the automotive industry.
7:24 PM · Feb 15, 2022

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/freedom-convoy-disruptions-cost-auto-industry-millions-rcna16318?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

The trucker protests against vaccine mandates that have blocked key trade crossings between Canada and the United States have prompted losses of nearly $300 million in wages and production in the automotive industry, according to a study this week.The self-styled "freedom convoy" protests have blocked U.S.-Canadian border crossings, including the Ambassador Bridge connecting Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, and the Blue Water Bridge, linking Sarnia, Ontario, to Port Huron, Mich.

The demonstrations have resulted in losses of direct wages totaling $144.9 million, mostly affecting Michigan and Ontario, from Feb. 7 to Tuesday, according to an analysis by the Anderson Economic Group, based in East Lansing, Mich.

During that same period, General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Honda and Toyota have lost an additional $155 million, Anderson said in a statement on Monday.

Lost wages in Michigan alone after the first week of protests tallied more than $51 million, the group said.

Patrick Anderson, the economic group's CEO, said Tuesday that the protests have led to “painful” shutdowns in Canada and the U.S.

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[Busterscruggs]

1. Their wealthy russian

Backers achieved what they wanted. They brought yet another industry to their knees and have strangled the blue collar worker

[moniss]

2. It

might take some digging to nail down the names of some of these folks but the companies should sue. They may not recover all of the loss but they could cause surrender of assets, judgements etc. Some of the steel companies have in the recent past successfully sued groups of non-union truckers who were causing similar problems at the entrances to their facilities when they were trying to get some issues resolved. Many of these people require major financing every few years for their equipment and a large judgement on your credit bureau will scare off most lenders. They don't want to see their collateral get put on a hook either. I can't say about Canada but the US has laws against interference in interstate commerce, laws against using a vehicle to impede the flow of traffic by driving slow and/or in large groups nose to tail. Particularly we have laws about operating trucks in an unsafe manner. That's a catch-all and gives lots of discretion to the cops. That crap of them sitting and blaring their horns is improper use of a warning device. But the cops have to have the will to write the tickets.

[tanyev]

3. And Republicans are cheering them on.

Don’t Republicans like to claim that they are good for business? Business needs to take a long look at who they support and where their donations go.