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Late Friday the UAW once again blasted the bipartisan Inflation Reduction Act in its latest attempt to protect the jobs, health, and safety of its members. Using data from a new Good Jobs First* report, “Power Outrage: Will Heavily Subsidized Battery Factories Generate Substandard Jobs?” the union pointed out that “Under a provision of the Inflation Reduction Act, some factories making batteries for electric vehicles will each receive more than a billion dollars per year from the U.S. government, with no requirement to pay good wages to production workers. Thanks to the Advanced Manufacturing Production Credit, also called 45X for its section in the Internal Revenue Code, battery companies will receive tax credits that they can use, sell, or cash out.” Since this is a UAW contract year the outlook for Automakers remains stormy, with strikes clearly a threat. (AutoInformed on EV Politics – Biden versus the UAW)

“The so called 45X program alone will cost taxpayers more than $200 billion in the next decade, far more than the $31 billion estimated by Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation. On top of 45X and other federal incentives, factories manufacturing electric vehicles and batteries have also been promised well over $13 billion in state and local economic development incentives in just the past 18 months,” the UAW said. Continue reading →