It’s been 14 years since General Motors filed for bankruptcy following the 2008 financial crisis. Now, on the anniversary of this historic event, the United Auto Workers (UAW) union has released a statement ahead of auto worker contract negotiations.
“Fourteen years ago this week, General Motors filed for bankruptcy,” UAW Vice President Mike Booth said in a prepared statement. “It was a scary moment for the auto industry, for our country, and for auto workers everywhere. The federal government, the American taxpayer, and – more than anyone – the auto workers rallied to save the iconic company. Auto workers had their wages slashed, lost their retirement security, gave up their job security, had their cost-of-living adjustments suspended. We gave up so much to save this company. And it wasn’t just UAW members who took the hit – it was our families, our communities, and the whole middle class of this great nation.”
“In the 14 years since that moment, GM has fully bounced back,” Booth continued. “You know who hasn’t bounced back? The US autoworker. We still live with the two-tier wage and benefits system. We still don’t have cost-of-living adjustments in a time of historic inflation. We still suffer from plant closures and an uncertain future, even when business is booming. We’ve waited long enough. It’s time to make whole the auto workers who sacrificed to save this industry. That’s why we’re fighting for a fair contract at GM, Ford, and Stellantis in 2023.”
This charged statement comes as the UAW begins contract negotiations with the Big Three – which includes General Motors, Ford and Stellantis. The labor union points to high profits and executive compensations as justification for higher demands.
It’s worth noting that current UAW contracts are set to expire in September 2023.
As is evidenced in the aforementioned statement from UAW Vice President Booth, negotiations are expected to be rather heated as the labor union fights for increased wages and benefits while the Big Three hope to keep costs down during the transition to an electrified future. Notably, UAW leaders have threatened strikes to maintain leverage against the automakers.
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“GM has fully bounced back. You know who hasn’t bounced back? The US autoworker. We still live with the two-tier wage and benefits system. We still don’t have cost-of-living adjustments in a time of historic inflation.”
Yeah, one has to wonder if there is a connection. Perhaps they should see about setting off a new bankruptcy.
Idk, they still get paid better than us down here in the south. Part of the reason GM went bankrupt was the unions entitlement mentality and being overpaid. I went to school and got an engineering degree, yet I’m still paid less than the average UAW worker with a high school diploma, and I’m paid much better than your average pipe fitter/technician around here.
Y’all should be grateful for having some of the best paid jobs in the wealthiest country on earth. And let flint and Detroit be reminders that if you get too greedy, it can go to hell in a hand basket real soon.
You don’t know what the F you are talking about. Only those near retirement are doing well the vast majority of us don’t make anywhere near what they made in the past.
Stop being a cowardly boot licker, you’re not crying about Mary Barra’s compensation are you? Grow a pair sweetie and man up instead of talking trash about others!
WOW would Celebrate GM Bankruptcy too but unfortunate is still with us would celebrate the End of BMW too but they sell so much my dream can not be possible on the sack put also Volkswagen Audi Porsche Kia and Daimler too
Perhaps I’m missing it, but I don’t see anywhere in the statement where the UAW celebrated GM’s bankruptcy. The spokesperson noted the event and GM’s return from bankruptcy. Now he’s arguing union workers should get a slice of the economic pie in return. Whether valid or not is for people to decide. Maybe I’m exposed to more inflammatory stuff than the average person, but it doesn’t seem like much of a charged statement. Just normal political wrangling ahead of tough negotiations.
I think “recognize” would be a more appropriate word than “celebrate”
UAWwill bankrupt the auto indust.you want and see.there better think who buy there Junk.
I WONT BUY ONE taxpayer’s had to bail them out,they took no wage cut,but they want and want more.poor babies go cry.whenprople stop buying them very over priced vehicles ask yourselfwhy.
Okay will well wemember dat.
Autoworkers aren’t getting paid like they used to be. There are very few “old-timers” left getting the good pay, but the cost of cars today are ridiculously high. Just shows you that the cost of cars aren’t because of the workers.
I worked for GM for over 30 years
My pension never increased one cent from the day I started to the day I retired. 30 years without a pension increase. Now GM has abandoned pensions for new employees, tier wages and outright pay inequality !!
I’m disappointed that the UAW let the auto industries divide and destroy our jobs through outsourcing!! Will the pension fund ever be fully funded and increased. 30 years of patient waiting.
CEO pay has definitely gone up.
What used to be a routine criticism of CEOs (pay ratio of top brass vs. bottom-rung workers) is now ignored by those that used to complain about this because Mary The Infallible Female is running GM….
The double standard is glaring and ridiculous.
I got seniority in Jan 2016 make 25 an hour guy I work next to everyday got seniority in aug 2015 he makes 31.76 an hour that’s an issue our work ethic is equal I work as hard as he does he works as hard as I do but he makes $7 an hour more then I do because he got seniority 6 months before me oh and we went in as Temps a week apart. Fair?
Ive been a GMCH employee for 10yrs and only make $23/hr. We are considered GMCH employees even tho all the salaried bosses there are considered GM employees. We are expected to do everything the GM way but for GMCH pay.
So you only make $23 an hour! Whose fault is that ? get an education. The shareholders were wiped out but I don’t hear anyone helping them
You mean like those coding, design, and engineering jobs that are now moving to Mexico and India the same way manufacturing jobs were “offshored” the past 40 years?
That’s part of the game of investing. Good things happen, but so does bad.
You are an ignorant individual, you must be one who never does a physically demanding job.
I suppose you support student loan bail outs as well.
So stating reality is ignorant? You’re implying a lot from that. I can’t speak for the poster, but I agree with them and I do not support bail outs. I paid $70k of loans off on my own, all while making less than UAW workers, and we’ll less than 10 years. Im not bragging, i put in the work and supported a family, and climbed the ladder a few rungs.
Help comes to those who also help themselves.
You know you will be at 32.32 in September right?
Our plant is a disaster with the UAW here complain about everything the elected officials hide in their rooms with paper covering windows and get unlimited overtime and spread so much propaganda. It’s sick, and u wonder why the union overall is shrinking no one needs them.
To any of you who are negative about taxpayer money helping them out of bankruptcy.
You are ignorant, the banks were bailed out, you use them. Airlines were bailed out as well as Amtrak.”, you use them. Quit your narrow minded view and get real
What if we’re not ignorant and just think none of those things should have been bailed out?
GM especially. There are other car manufacturers, and the world would have gone on without them.
On the flip side, I’m sick of hearing people call them Government Motors when they paid back all the money they were asked to. Those people are ignorant.
The banks had to be bailed out or you would have had an economic catastrophe that would have made the Great Depression look like a picnic. You still would be feelin the ill effects today.
And show me a country that does not have a strong domestically owned industrial base and I will show you a country that is an also-ran. Unfortunately we’re becoming very close to that status now.
GM paid back every cent they got in the bail out
No. But they did pay back every cent they were expected to.
Early even.
Hopefully ignorant people like yourself lose their jobs next and then you might realize what others go through.
So we should bail out every company that fails, because someone will lose their job?
That isn’t sustainable.
Us workers at Ford saved Ford we did not go into bankruptcy,and we still waiting to get something back, management got back but hourly did not
Not to mention that the Japanese government has subsidized their automakers for decades. It would be considered a national disgrace for any large corporation in Japan to fail (when is the last time you heard of a Japenese corporation fail?) However in this country there were many who wished to bulldoze our entire American auto ondustry over a cliff.
Our UAW shop chairmen and his staff are as crooked as they come at FWA GM and HR allows it they look the other way on everything it’s really sad, there is no discipline at all local negotiations was a disaster management gave them everything they requested and more and it still took them 2 years to settle.
So you only make $23 an hour! Whose fault is that ? get an education. The shareholders were wiped out but I don’t hear anyone helping them
Your white-collar arrogance is repulsive, and that’s coming from Penn State white-collar guy.
You have absolutely no idea of his current and past situations, yet you think you do….and that’s textbook arrogance.
Our young peoplexwere told to get degrees in engineering and IT. Those jobs are now being offshored. All these young people now have is a pile of student loan debt while they are partaking in the “gig” economy.
Kids getting degrees in the “wrong” field is nothing new. Infact trades’ manpower needs are one of the greatest shortages right now. Make much more than on the line, get your apprenticeship and training paid for, but from the ground floor to management they cant understand why no young people want to take it up. Not saying it’s easy work, but I agree. The opportunities are there. Hell, if you need to relocate even. But no, it’s I should have a job where I want for how much I want.
I was told to get a degree when I was young, ended up essentially not using it after my second job. My first one out of college was for $11/hr degree required. Union no less. $70k student debt and I was making less than temps on the line at auto companies? Did I have a dream job that I could work the rest of my life? No, and I continued to look for opportunities till I moved into a position I liked and paid what I thought was worthwhile.
As jobs moving overseas, how do you expect companies to grow in other regions and diversify support and productivity in a global competition? It may seem like jobs are moving over seas, but there are still lots of shoes on the technical end to fill stateside. Knowledge gaps are starting to be recognized and will be filled eventually. IT is still very healthy in the states, though things are spreading out globally.
Did not mention the big profit sharing checks, I wonder why?
Some years back, American cars were the most reliable and best quality cars, but that ship sailed long ago. Why should a Toyota now be put together much better than a GM product? And why should a Japanese assembled Toyota be put together better than US assembled Toyota?
Any industry needs to attract good people to stay on top, so talent acquisition and retention is critical, and that is done in part with a competitive total compensation package.
But the workers then have to perform at a high level, take pride in their work, and unions don’t help facilitate that…we have similar poor quality in law enforcement and teaching fields due to poor compensation (that doesn’t attract the best) coupled with powerful unions (that keep the lowest performers working). Unions were critical when formed to protect factory workers from truly unsafe and inhumane conditions…with modern laws and workplace regulations, unions are now an outdated concept and should be gone.
Many other industries lost their pensions, including my own…UAW still doing better with benefits than many others. One real problem is that too many companies listened to consulting firms like McKinsey, and they cut out a lot of good perks in the name of expense reduction, and short-term shareholder value…i.e., greed at the board level. Now many of those same companies are now whining about not being able to find good people, and wondering why existing employees aren’t loyal as they force-feed everyone with expensive idealogical internal initiatives.
This country as a whole needs to readjust its mindset…the root causes of many of our problems are not hidden or difficult to figure out…they just aren’t being acknowledged. Everyone has something to whine about, but many never think about what they can do better.
Agreed, I’ve been to many a town hall and many of them seem to fit in “we need to stop finger pointing” then follows up later with finger pointing at the company that employs them.
It’s a bit disheartening to witness this from the outside and have to interact with both sides heavily.
God bless the UAW.
I thought communists didn’t believe in God?
I agree with what Jules said about shareholders. We got Jack-squat for our faith and investment in GM. The government praised them for their genius maneuver of going bankrupt one day and emerging the next day as the New GM. Then to add insult to injury, I received a postcard from GM thanking me for my many past purchases of GM vehicles and inviting me to visit my nearest showroom to view the ‘New GM’. Not a discount, not an apology, nothin but a 10 cent postcard.
I support the UAW, but I’ll never buy another new GM product.
Very unfair inflammatory heading followed by few facts.
I am ashamed of gmauthority for printing this. If no follow up ….I will be ending my viewing.
Worked as a electrician at Generous Motors for 31 years.The place has gone downhill,because of both the company and the union. The local union(774)only cares about their overtime.I could not get a $10 plastic piece to fix a machine, but GM is a multi billion dollar, international company with a CEO that makes 22 million dollars plus bonuses to look out at the Detroit River. God bless America. What a joke.
GM paid back loan early with interest. Did not see anything in this article about the massive union leadership corruption that happened last negotiations. Strike fund got pretty low during a period of very few strikes. GM will win when both sides realize they are competing against other manufacturers not each other – signed proud shareholder who was wiped out during bankruptcy
“We destroyed the auto industry like we destroyed any number of industries and then we pulled back a little bit on our $90k a year entry salary and additional $100k in benefits and saved the automotive industry… And now we’re going to kill it again…” Unions don’t work because communism doesn’t work.
Ryan you are truly lost. I worked 30 years doing assembly on the line. No time did I make $90.000.00 a year. A bunch were lean years mixed in with weeks of going home short of 40 hours pay in a week.
You pay big money to fly, hmmm no complaints on the airline industry. You bank? No complaints on taking out loans or using their services either.
Hypocrite!
LOL! Union is a major factor why GM should have gone bankrupt. I say should have because they didn’t. The government bailed them out.
If they really would have gone bankrupt then the union would have had to negotiate the contract and would have had to make concessions and that would have really righted the ship.
Instead we have the same old union and the parasidic work force doing lhe least amount of work for the most amount of money.
I also remember the GM bankruptcy, but from a different perspective. As a retired salaried employee, with over 40 years of service, I lost all my healthcare, including supplemental, dental, vision etc., and my life insurance was reduced by over 90%. All of these items had to be purchased out of pocket if possible to find and afford. Life insurance is extremely expensive if even available for seniors. I have friends that because of age and health issues could not afford to replace what was lost for themselves and their families. Fourteen years later and after billions made by GM nothing has changed with frozen pensions or lost benefits. Needless to say, my life and thousands of other retired GM salaried employees lives changed 14 years ago. We too remember!
That is an outrage!
Meanwhile, unions keep everything. Absolutey no skin in the game before or after bailout.
Neither side is clean in this…
For those that think GM truly paid back what the owed, look into the RACER trusts. The government is still (or till recently was) paying for environmental clean up for properties they gave/sold for little to the government. Doing so caused so much cost to the taxpayers as their funds footed the bills to cleanup the land to make it even legally sellable…
For the UAW, they’ve changed nothing, and corruption is still rampant at most all levels I’ve seen. Elias’s post is not a bad apple example, but unfortunately very common across the industry from what I’ve witnessed. Not exclusive to Big 3 or UAW shops, but from my personal experience through dozens of shops across all OEMs, it’s just way more pervasive at UAW shops.
Well if you guys are going on strike I suggest you do it now. They are in full overdrive building inventory to wait you out. You and your family’s will starve long before they even see a mark on their quarterly profit sheet they do it every time. 3rd generation auto worker here. Study history Edison, Rockefella, Ford build this country. But they were smart enough to pay people back then enough to purchase their products and provide a livable wage even if it was I fight to get them to do it. If the auto works make more everyone benefit because everyone needs transportation. If they make more contractors stay in business, mom and pop shops stay in business. Not everyone needs those but they do need transportation
Based on this and previous comments by UAW President Shawn Fain calling the auto companies “the enemy” it looks like a difficult Fall season in Detroit. The only question is, who the strike target will be.
From the word I’m hearing, Stellantis. I believe it’s their turn.
I’m just amazed at the ignorance of those who want to hate on union workers. So let’s do some math for those who think they are intelligent. Mary Barra made an average of $30M a year for the past 4 years. That’s almost $14K an hour on a 40 hour week. Her pay per day is more than any average every level employee makes in one year. That’s not unless you want to believe her $54 an hour lie that she told you back in 2019.
So here’s the truth. In America, we call it sweat shop labor for someone to get paid $0.05 to make a $250 pair of sneakers. That is .0002% of the price of that item. At my plant, we build 450 SUVs per shift. The lowest price I’ve seen was $70K. If we used that same $54 an hour wage that she told you, I’d be making $432 a day. That comes out to $0.96 per vehicle. Or, to better put it, almost 0.000014% of the price of the vehicle. So for me to make the same amount as that person in the “sweat shop”, I’d have to build a little over 14.5 vehicles to get what they made on one pair of shoes.
The problem in America is that people have believed the lie so long that they’re willing to fight the people who are fighting to get a living wage than to fight the people who are giving them scraps to live on. NO CEO SHOULD MAKE MORE THAN 100 TIMES MORE THAN THEIR ENTRY LEVEL EMPLOYEE!!! If we’re putting our bodies, our work/life balance in jeopardy, we need to be paid!!! I’ve been working 6 or 7 day weeks for almost 8 years. That’s not by choice, this was mandated!!! I’m ready to fight. If you’re against us fighting for a fair share, then stop celebrating all the things that unions have historically gotten for you!!!
Your best argument for those who disagree is to call Us ignorant?
If you have a different perspective that’s great, let’s hear it.
But if you start off calling us ignorant you lose.
I have spent decades learning subjects such as these. I won’t call you ignorant, name calling is not an argument.
George, I’m assuming you’re having a hard time understanding the definition of ignorance. Ignorance is to lack knowledge of something. If that word offended you, that just proved your ignorance. What I did was educate those who don’t understand the stance of people who are union and why they fight for the things they’re fighting for. Calling us selfish, greedy, lazy, and overpaid is what I’ve read in many of the comments. If they’ve never worked a manufacturing job, they have no right to comment about laziness. If they don’t understand how hard we work for barely enough to afford the products we build, then you can’t call us greedy. If you don’t understand taking a huge pay cut to watch management get back everything with back pay and bonuses, then you can’t call us selfish.
Pointing out the ignorance in people’s comments isn’t a bad thing. That’s opportunity to give them knowledge. To be offended by the word is to say that you’re either happy with the ignorance or you hate the fact that someone is willing to educate them so they are no longer ignorant of the situation. I’m not offended by what you said. I just think it’s sad that you would be willing to find one things that you didn’t understand and try to attack someone with enough intelligence to speak truth.
While I agree that executives get ridiculous pay and that should not be so disproportionate, comparing shoe making to vehicles is not the comparison I’d make.
It’s a very complex process, of which I’m intimately versed of the entirety of it from raw materials and parts suppliers, through the “black box” of the paint shops, to TCF and heading out to the yards. I’ve been and continue to be out there on the floor busting my butt right next to UAW and non union workers on the line.
Sorry, but you also speak like you haven’t seen any corruption or anything else at your shop. The system from both sides is broken, and the question I still have remains the same. What’s the value of unskilled labor? For those believing that the wages are that bad, is there an attempt to move into trades? There’s massive trades shortages.
There needs to be some deep inward reflection on both sides of the ball here. The strikes that are coming are gonna be ugly.
Lastly, the poster has a point. Not agreeing with a perspective does not equate ignorance.
What you don’t understand is that I totally know corruption. I’ve worked in 2 GM plants in my almost 29 years of working for them. I don’t celebrate their bankruptcy, but I do remember the huge loss that my family, my city, my friends and myself have had to endure. And yes, the show making industry and automotive industries are very much alike. It takes the same type of things to get them together. I’ve worked both in my lifetime. Almost all manufacturing jobs are very much similar.
Yes, there’s corruption in almost everything. There’s fireproof in the church and I’m s debit Christian. There’s corruption in government and I vote in every election. Whether l wherever there are humans in charge, there will be corruption. I got moved from my home because my former union president appointed his daughter to a position without having the seniority to even get into the plant that they ended up pulling people from my plant to go. That’s after she was on leave of absence for almost 2 years, where she was running her own business. I know corruption. The plant that I’m in now has had several embezzlement charges against leaders of the local. I could keep going, but why. What does it help to point out dirty laundry if I’m not attempting to clean it. My focus is now on helping get stronger people working in the plant.
GM and the union led to us telling us that the tier two employees were not going to be working on the line with us, but doing sub assembly jobs. That didn’t happen. We conceded to a 4 day 10 shift. Instead we worked 5 days 10 hours, then they added on every other Saturday, then 2 Saturdays on one Saturday of. Now we’re working 6 days a week, mandatory.
I’ve even been offered to be management several times. I was smart enough to notice how they treated management and also knew the pitfalls of going into management. A few of my friends went and they regretted it. That’s a whole different story.
What many are complaining about here has nothing to do with reality. Reality is that we can’t keep people at the plant because paying people less than $17 an hour to come break there backs and their spirits for the hope of getting on permanent isn’t helping them. We can train 250 this week and they will literally quit by the end of next week. They can get paid more working at Target, Amazon or Walmart.
We’re fighting to keep the strength of workers coming in. We’re fighting to keep a strong middle class. We’re fighting to save this country into becoming a system of haves and have nots. Seeing these comments is like watching an coalition army that should be fighting together to end corporate greed just sit there and shoot themselves. Once you kill off the stronger fighters, there will be only weak ones left. Then it’s fair game for the opposing army to pick you off. But you don’t see that. I went to school for business. I truly understand.
Apologies for the late reply, I totally understand. It does need to be fixed.
From a production, operator, TL, Sup, BUL, etc. standpoint, yes shoe making and cars are similar in the mindset and general operations to a degree. But that’s where the similarities end. There’s a massive complexity to the operations outside of that where shoe making and cars have no correlation.
Hell, the immense difference to APA (parts) and tier suppliers to the OEM plants is astronomical.
I’m not doubting your experience, knowledge and understanding. What I am saying, is that I work side by side with every level of employee at not just the big 3, but all OEMs in the America’s, everyday. And not just with one department, or just plant side, I’m heavily involved with corporate too. I often get dragged in to calm both parties. I get pulled into plants to help fix their problems, process, teamwork, personnel, technical, mechanical, paint, BIW, anything. I’m very familiar with what you’re talking about. Most of my closest friends are those on the line that I’ve befriended over the years.
I’m external troubleshooting and consulting. I am not someone that just walks around and says “oh there’s your problem,” I am up to my knees and elbows in crap helping fix robots, HVAC, ovens, general process, and operations with the hourly and trades. Then I walk management through how they messed up too, and what they can collectively do as a team with every employee plantside to get in the right direction.
I’m glad you didn’t go into management, I’ve seen the same. A friend of mine in the Detroit area had a heart attack from the stress after switching over. I’m glad he made it and chose to step back to hourly.
I went to school for business as well, you’re not alone. I agree with you quite a bit, but I also have additional perspectives that have an impact as well. This is not to say i know more or am better than you, I’m not. Just that ive had the opportunity to see other views.
We do need to strengthen the middle class (of which i am a part, believe it or not), but saying that you can go work at Target for the same pay is the same shortsightedness that perpetuates the stagnation that the union management allows. The jobs at OEMs have better benefits, better upward mobility, better retirement, and better options for everyone’s future. Name someone that didn’t move into middle management at Target or Walmart that retired at a decent age with even close to the benefits an auto worker does. That argument is understandable, but doesn’t hold up, IMO. It all depends on what a person wants out of their life. If they want to reinvest in them self and reach a goal, or just stay stagnant? I am not saying one is better than the other, not at all, everyone is entitled to their own desires and lifestyles.
Lastly, the days and hours that are forced upon the hourly are strictly within what the union management has agreed upon with the OEMs. As you well know, the shops are a meat grinder. I dont know the answers, I just wish that membership would also demand things to get fixed within the ranks and their own management as well as just pointing the finger at the OEMs…
Again, I’m not ignorant or as you now say, offended.
I just disagree.
Don’t you get it?
Or should I call you stupid to get my point across?
Sarcasm =)
Management at my plant are ignorant,they turn a blind eye on everything,I’m sick of it ,and they get paid the big bucks to be the alarm clock for the many who come to work and nap,
I worked 34 years with GM. Many years I made over one hundred thousands dollars, but that was with a lot of overtime. A 40 hours work year would have paid about $75,000, A lot of sacifice overtime helped, The last ten to twelve years the profit sharing money was a big plus. GM/UAW provided me and my family great health care coverages, a total of 5 weeks paid vacation days off. The amount of corporate taxes along with workers salary employees and UAW employees taxes more than enough paid back the U.S. citizens for any help that GM received from the government. I get so tired of hearing these no brain’s GM and UAW haters spread their uniforms lies. The auto industry along with their suppliers is the largest manufacturing industry in America. The auto industry has been the backbone of this country for over 100 years.
Do you have any clue how many millions the tax payers of Flint and MI had to pay for the clean up Buick City? Over $36 million for that site alone, and a majority of it is still an empty lot that Gm uses to park vehicles. Every time a company wants to buy some of the land, it costs the government more money as it gets developed and more toxins are found. GM knew how much had been dumped on that site for ages, then when going under offered it to the gov…same crap all around MI. Lansing (GM), Trenton (Chrysler), a Ford site in the Metro area too, you name it. I’m not saying they’re awful, or the UAW is, just that a lot has been brought under people’s noses without them knowing.
I will also say there profit sharing formula is a joke GM makes 12,000,000,000 in profit after all is paid that’s what’s left over. To pay all of GM hourly/skilled/ employees 55,000 employees cost GM roughly 600,000,000 leaving 11,400,000,000 for the executives shareholders and investment. Why does the ppl who do the most work n sacrifice the most only get as a whole 55k 5% roughly of the profit while the executives and shareholders enjoy 95% of the profits that’s not fair at all. It’s a slap in the face to us
I wanna see Mary Barra n all the executives come work on the line for 1 full week then let’s talk about what’s fair. On the hottest day of the year in the hottest part of trim dept for 10hr for 6 days.
Also Mr.Fain is not in touch with reality this is the problem with older ppl they are not progressive the wanna go back. Here we are this guy wants to go back to what he had in its golden age but fact is what your asking for will have the company lossing money by the time the contract is expired. I don’t wish to add fixed cost the company can’t maneuver I think the gains you want can only be attained thru more even cut of the profits. Then it’s not fixed no profit no profit sharing it’s really simple 25% can be gain off a better cut of profit but ur never gonna get %40 raises all on fixed cost to the company they will never go BK to defined pensions come dude that’s what killed them B4 guy get a clue man
I wonder if the yellow employees could go back and except that 11$ an hour raise the company proposed that they voted down before the company shutdown losing all 22,000 union jobs. Point is don’t be greedy be open n reasonable and realistic there plenty of money if both sides stop being greedy. How big does Mary yacht gotta be. How big is Fain ego n desire to go BK to the golden 1950s
Stellantis top brass won’t be pushed around by this guy I know that much the guy is French n he not a union lover so be careful with that company.
One of a key sticking point for stellantis is to change the union reps from being solely a rep for the union whose wages are paid by the company but was voted into a union rep spot. Stellantis wants those reps to have to work full time and be the union rep no more just being a union rep u will work on the line as the rep in the future.
You get voted in as a district committee man you won’t get off the line and do the committee job solely as they do now. You will continue to work on the line and be the committee man for the union so it’s extra work on top of your daily work. Enjoy guys