GM Supplier Webasto Workforce Joins UAW
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The workforce of GM supplier Webasto Roof Systems – which manufactures convertible tops – has joined the UAW Local 3000.
“We’re doing this for our coworkers,” Webasto production worker Sheron Johnson was quoted as saying. “People have been mistreated, not getting paid, having their schedules changed with no notice. We want to leave this place better for the next generation.”
The Webasto workforce, who produces the convertible tops for Ford Mustang, Jeep Wrangler, Ford Bronco and Corvette applications, organized its UAW push back in November 2022. During its campaign, it faced an intense anti-union crusade from management at the company.
“These brave workers stuck together in the face of fierce opposition from the company,” UAW Local 3000 President Steve Gonzales was quoted as saying. “As they move from this organizing victory to the fight for a first contract, we’ve got their back 100 percent.”
“Over and over, we’re seeing workers across the auto supply chain come together in a common cause for justice on the job,” UAW Region 1A Director Laura Dickerson was quoted as saying. “Congratulations to our newest members at Webasto, and welcome to the UAW Region 1A family!”
In other UAW-related news, roughly 400 workers at the Clarios battery plant in Ohio went on strike on May 8th following a contract proposal that was shot down. The Clarios battery plant and the union had been unable to reach an agreement on several issues, most notable of which was the overtime pay structure. As outlined in the now-expired contract, workers previously received time-and-a-half for work over eight hours a day. However, the company’s recent proposal had straight pay extended to 12 hours a day, which means that workers would have to work an extra four hours a day to reach overtime pay.
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And like that, Webasto moved operations down south.
Not likely. Ford and Stellantis want their major suppliers near their final assembly plants.
They need to be careful they are not GM employees and suppliers can be easily replaced. There are probably competitors out there who can now be under bid them. Time for new requests for quotes.
There won’t be any jobs for future generations. Unions are job killers.
Unions make middle class a possibility for many who will now be able to purchase GM products. If you don’t have a class of people who can buy your product, you will soon be out of business.
Education does that too.
Yet Toyota/Honda/WV and even KIA aren’t unionized and despite being products with bad engineering at best, have less recalls from loose bolts and wires, and still pay employees well.
Walmart, not unionized, and starting wages are 16-18/he depending on where you live. I would believe your claim if it were true
U ions help keep the company honest, I have worked for many non union companies..and they treated their employees horrible, the people who are against unions are the people who are against the average person making a fair living wage with competitive benefits. I now work for GM.. things are not always easy..but I always prefer a u union..union strong!!
Talking to Union haters is like talking to a retarded chimp with a ball-peen hammer.
Don, you probably don’t own a business, because your comment is moot. In 45 of business, I have no unions, which keeps my prices competitive and my business here instead of Mexico or China.
But I take it you treated your employees fairly. You would not have been in business 45 years if you didn’t
UAW. Aka unemployed auto workers.
HMK Unions are not just about economic justice but workplace justice. 95% of business failures are because of mismanagement not union workforces. Additionally there is something called P.A.C. power authority and control which employers desperately cling to. It is typically a one way street with non union employers where they quite often subjectively believe they know a persons labor worth. I understand there are responsible employers that are not unionized but there are those who are not. When you buy a car and finance it you sign a contract, when you buy a home and finance it you sign a contract so why not sign a contract for selling your labor? It spells out the expectation between the parties or is that part of the P.A.C. you cling to? In your business I would guess you sign contracts all the time and do not depend on the good nature of your clients.
You do sign a contract for selling labor. It’s called an employment contract.
Do you work for the company, or the company work for you? Ummm, yeah a company has the right to tell you what you need to do for a paycheck, they have a right to terminate your job and show you the door if you don’t do the work. You have a right to leave and take your skills elsewhere if they abuse you and your time. A company is incentivized to treat their people well because high turnover hurts their bottom line and they loose to competitors. The sole exception are in corrupt principalities where competition is squashed and even law enforcement is in cahoots with businesses oligarchs.
Wild guess all the Union haters probably watch professional sports and even wear a jersey with another mans name on it idolizing them. Funny all those players belong to a UNION.
Like all the so called inclusive companies now days, the union workers just want to be included in the obscene compensation the executives all vote themselves.
YOU DO NOT GET IT STEVE, with a Union contract the company has to have just cause to fire you without a Union contract they can fire you to hire the bosses son-in-law or take you in to a room without representation I think the haters are jealous of what UNION workers enjoy. I have heard the same empty argument for fifty years against unions so lets agree to disagree and I will continue to enjoy my Teamster Pension that allowed me to retire at 54 and hope you are just as fortunate.
It’s an adversarial relationship. Both sides demand too much, then negotiate down to a realistic result. Well, sometimes. I’ve seen unions drive a business into the ground with more and more demands. Then nobody wins. The union bosses are sometimes corrupt, and the businesses just want to pay less for labor and increase profits. There’s room for both if reasonable people are talking.
Bill it is not the same it does not allow for binding arbitration.
Another thing to delay Corvette production, more unionized lazy employees. Unions are a disease to the workforce and serve no purpose except to line the pockets of the Union executives. Look at any UAW executive they couldn’t fit their fat ass onto an assembly line!