General Motors has gutted its electric-vehicle ambitions and killed more than 1,000 jobs at its flagship Detroit assembly plant — replacing those workers with 50 robots and sparking outrage from labor unions.
The replacement “collaborative robots,” or “cobots,” have been installed on the assembly line at GM’s Factory Zero plant in Michigan amid a sharply reduced demand for its EV models and the ensuing push to cut costs, reports said.
The machines are now working alongside the remaining humans there who attach the body panels to vehicles as they move down the track, according to AutoBlog.
The automaker insists the cobots are necessary at the Detroit-Hamtramck electric-truck plant to stay competitive while improving “safety and ergonomics” for the workers, according to Crain’s Detroit Business.
“We’ve been installing cobots across our manufacturing footprint as part of a broader push to bring more advanced technology into our operations,” spokesman Kevin Kelly said.
“At Factory ZERO, we are implementing them alongside our team — helping improve safety and ergonomics, while keeping our operations flexible and competitive.”
But United Auto Workers Local 22 President James Cotton isn’t buying it, saying the machines are simply a cost-cutting measure that is taking jobs from his union members.
“Our manpower is being taken away from us,” Cotton said, according to Crains.
“From top to bottom, we’re disgusted that they have cobots in our plants,” he said.
The number of labor hours required to produce a car has declined 50% to 70% since the 1980s, Crains reported.
But that hasn’t stopped UAW wages from going up. The union was able to make historic wage gains in 2023, and the union will likely seek stronger protections in its upcoming 2028 contract negotiations, the outlet said.
Cotton said that despite the company’s claim of the technology making conditions safer, he has safety concerns with robots working next to humans and that the union has since filed grievances against GM over the cobots.
The cobots arrived as GM is getting hammered by slowing EV demand — largely because of the costs, according to AAA — with the automaker pausing production at Factory Zero multiple times over the past year.
In response to GM’s heavy automation push and cobot installation, UAW President Shawn Fain said workers are “in a fight for humanity,” reported the News Tribune.
“The fruits of our labor have multiplied like never before, but workers aren’t reaping the harvest,” he said, according to the outlet.
“And if AI continues to be used as an accessory to that crime, it has to be stopped — it doesn’t have to be this way — in a just society, when workers create more value, they see more of the benefit.”

I Seriously Need These 39 People To Leave Their Husbands And Boyfriends As Soon As Humanly Possible
Warning: these pictures might aggravate you.
1. This boyfriend who ironed his nice shirt on his partner’s dining room table:
2. This husband who put all the allergy pills at home into the same bottle, even though they’re different pills:
3. This boyfriend who put birthday cake away like this:
4. This boyfriend who didn’t clean up after shaving:
5. This husband who didn’t do the one thing he was asked:
6. This husband who was asked to hang up laundry and did it like this:
7. This husband who labeled his wife’s breast milk as “dump” instead of just throwing it out like she asked:
8. This boyfriend who opens a new sponge every few days because he gets grossed out:
9. This husband who replaced all their partner’s plastic and silicone cooking utensils with wooden salad tossers:
10. This boyfriend who tried to disinfect their partner’s monitor:
11. This boyfriend who NEVER took lint out of the dryer:
12. This boyfriend who swept and mopped, yet his partner was able to sweep all this up afterwards:
13. This boyfriend who put away uncooked meat in the freezer like this:
14. This boyfriend who closed his partner’s cereal like this:
15. This husband who took this mug out of the dishwasher and thought it was acceptable to put in the cupboard:
16. This husband who wouldn’t clean the sponges after washing dishes:
17. This husband who put his leftovers away in this disgusting manner:
18. This husband who put egg shells BACK in the carton:
19. This husband who left his paper plates by the sink instead of throwing them out:
20. This husband who gave his wife this when she asked for a glass of water:
21. This boyfriend who put away leftover pancakes in this measuring cup:
22. This husband who piled up his laundry NEXT TO the washing machine instead of doing the laundry himself:
23. This boyfriend who replaced the toilet paper rolls…by putting them on the plunger:
24. This husband who would close the bread bag in this chaotic mess:
25. This husband who wouldn’t clean or at least rinse the skillet after using it:
26. This husband who unpacked a box of books and seriously “organized” it like this:
27. This husband who did the laundry by putting the whole bag of laundry pods in the washing machine:
28. This boyfriend who couldn’t take the extra two seconds to put the roll in the toilet paper holder:
29. This husband who threw his trash out in the pantry:
30. This husband who never replaced the garbage bag after taking out the trash:
31. This boyfriend who packed up the moving box with kitchen stuff in this manner:
32. This husband who put his laundry beside the laundry basket instead of in it:
33. This husband who stacked plates any which way:
34. This husband who never closed the kitchen drawers after opening them:
35. This husband who loaded up the dishwasher carelessly:
36. And finally, this husband who was asked to pick up a Christmas tree:
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Billionaire Citadel founder Ken Griffin is encouraging New York’s business leaders to take on socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, warning that the city’s future could be at risk if employers and investors stay quiet.
“They need to find their voice and fight for their city,” Griffin said Thursday at a Manhattan event, according to Bloomberg.
“My advice is to speak up. What’s the worst that’s going to happen? It will be that New York empties of talent and that’s a catastrophe. If the mayor wants to say a few words about you, your record speaks for itself: You create jobs, you create value and you pay taxes.”
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Griffin’s remarks mark the latest chapter in an ongoing clash between Wall Street’s billionaire class and Mamdani, whose proposals to raise taxes on wealthy New Yorkers and luxury property owners have drawn fierce criticism from business leaders concerned about the city’s economic competitiveness.
The financial titan, whose net worth is estimated at $48.3 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, argued that New York’s corporate leaders should focus on the long-term future of the city rather than short-term political battles.
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“Everything should be viewed through the lens of, Citadel will be here far longer than he’ll be mayor,” Griffin said.
The comments come as Griffin and Mamdani appear to be cautiously opening a dialogue after months of public sparring over taxes, wealth and the city’s business climate.
The socialist mayor recently reached out to Griffin after previously criticizing the billionaire hedge fund manager over his Manhattan penthouse and personal wealth. Mamdani notably stood outside Griffin’s luxury property to promote his proposal to raise taxes on second homes in New York City worth more than $5 million.
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The outreach comes as some business leaders warn New York risks alienating major employers and investors — a concern Griffin has raised before in another major American city.
The tensions have fueled concerns among some business leaders that New York could follow a path similar to Chicago, where Griffin spent years criticizing crime, taxes and public policy before moving Citadel’s headquarters to Miami in 2022. The relocation marked the departure of one of the financial industry’s most influential firms and underscored the economic impact that can follow when a major corporate player leaves a major city.
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Griffin has repeatedly pointed to Florida’s business climate as a model and warned that policies targeting high earners and businesses could make New York less competitive.
Griffin said he plans to talk to Mamdani “at some point in the months ahead.”
“Let’s see where he is on the state of policy at that time,” he said. “Actions speak louder than words.”

An unruly passenger apparently bit a fellow flyer on an American Airlines flight as it approached Philadelphia on Sunday, according to the pilot of the plane.
The passenger also seemed to become generally combative, with the pilot reporting that the individual on board was “trying to fight everybody” in air traffic control audio reviewed by CBS News.
“I don’t know … if he’s hallucinating or whatever, but he just bit a passenger and he’s trying to fight everybody,” the pilot is heard telling a controller in that audio recording, adding, “What a day, huh.”
The pilot also requested that an emergency medical crew and law enforcement meet the plane upon its arrival at Philadelphia International Airport, “just as a precaution.”
American Airlines said the passenger was experiencing a medical emergency, and that a medical professional on board “assisted the customer” before the flight landed. Medical personnel met the passenger, American Airlines said. The airline did not say if police were present when the plane landed.
The flight, which left Charlotte, North Carolina, earlier in the morning, landed just before 10 a.m. ET, according to the tracking site FlightAware.
The brief exchange between the pilot and controller ended with both of them laughing. When the controller wished the pilot a happy Father’s Day, he replied: “I’ll be sure to tell my daughters about this one.”
There have been a handful of incidents involving rowdy airline passengers in the last few weeks, including one in which a former professional MMA fighter took it upon himself to restrain a flyer who allegedly attempted to open an exit door on their Frontier Airlines plane mid-flight. The flight, originally headed to Chicago O’Hare Airport from San Juan, Puerto Rico, was diverted to Miami, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement, citing a “passenger disturbance.”
Only a few weeks earlier, the crew of a United Airlines flight from New Jersey’s Newark Airport made an emergency landing in Washington, D.C., after a passenger allegedly tried opening a door while the plane was flying at 36,000 feet. The plane, bound for Guatemala City, landed safely in the capital, United told CBS News at the time.

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman today posted the latest edition of his Power On newsletter, recapping the last ten years of Apple’s corporate structure in which the influence of the design team waned at the executive levels in the Cook era, fuelled by Jony Ive’s exit and talent departures as finance and operations had an increasingly larger say over product direction.
However, Gurman believes that incoming CEO John Ternus may be about to reset that relationship, and reaffirm the importance of the design group for the company’s future.
After Ive left the company, oversight of the design team fell to ex-COO Jeff Williams. This was already a major shakeup from the prior regime where Ive’s industrial design group dictated the product roadmap of the company from the top-down.
This arrangement was highlighted all the way back in 2011, in Steve Jobs’ biography by Walter Isaacson. Jobs is quoted as saying that Ive has more operational power than anyone at Apple apart from himself, because ‘the way I set it up’.
Fast forward to present day and that cannot be farther from the current situation, in which many believe the company has demoted design to be less important than its operations division. Apple doesn’t even have a senior design role right now, and only recently added Molly Anderson and Steve Lemay’s profiles to the leadership page.
Incoming CEO John Ternus, who is presumably going to be more involved in product in general than Cook was, is apparently looking to restore some of the design’s team’s authority. Gurman says that Ternus has already spent a considerable amount of his time with the industrial design group, as he prepares for his succession to begin on September 1.
Ternus is quoted by Gurman as having said that the ‘the most beautifully designed thing that most customers own is an Apple product. We’re going to make sure that stays the case’.