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Donavan McKinney: “They took away over a thousand positions and then put robots…”

Featuring: Donavan McKinney, Michigan House of Representatives, District 11

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Published | Video Starts at 20:46

Just what happened in gm. I don't know if y' all remember that our poll town play, like, Net zero plant right here between Hamtramck and Detroit, right on the border. Like, They took away over a thousand positions and then put robots up. And I'm like, dude, what are we doing, man? So you know, I remember back in the day, I don't know if this was his thinking, but Henry Ford and, you know, the Model T and, you know, $5 a day. (20:46–20:52)

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Asserts that over a thousand jobs were replaced by robots at a GM plant.

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