Reshoring Invites Robots Into US Car Plants

Shawn Fain, leader of the United Auto Workers, is warning his members that artificial intelligence and robots represent a threat on par with the North American Free Trade Agreement, which pushed jobs across borders. “We are in a fight for humanity,” he declared at the union’s recent convention. The UAW was angered this year when General Motors Co. idled workers and then installed robots at an assembly plant in Detroit.