GM Launches UAW Contract Negotiations Website
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As GM Authority previously reported, General Motors and the United Auto Workers (UAW) union recently began contract negotiations. In an effort to make the dialogue between the two entities more transparent, the Detroit-based automaker has launched a new website advertising the newest developments.
According to a report from Detroit Free Press, this move from GM is in response to UAW President Shawn Fain giving regular live updates on social media outlining the union’s goals in negotiations. It’s worth noting that while this isn’t the first time The General has launched a website for union bargaining, this page is actually the first site designed for GM’s global workforce in lieu of news media or investors.
“Negotiations are all about supporting our more than 50,000 manufacturing employees in the U.S. and the larger GM team,” GM spokesperson David Barnas was quoted as saying. “Digital communication is how most people get their information, so this site is available to anyone interested in GM, both internally and externally.”
As a brief reminder, negotiations are expected to be quite stiff, as the UAW has already threatened to go on strike with any of the Big Three if it doesn’t receive what it perceives as a fair contract.
“We are proud of the robust total compensation and benefits package we provide to our team members, including a world-class healthcare plan, a profit-sharing program that just distributed the largest bonus payments ever to our employees, and career development and training opportunities,” GM CEO Mary Barra stated in a prepared statement. “We have a long history of negotiating fair contracts with the UAW that reward our employees and support the long-term success of our business. Our goal this time will be no different.”
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I’m sure Mary believes her contract is fair. I’m sure the UAW would pleased with 10% of what Mary makes.
Given that EVs require fewer parts (and therefore fewer workers), I cannot fathom a deal that does not result in a shrinking labor pool. It’s going to be tough, so a strike is almost inevitable, IMHO.
I wonder about the average age of the UAW production worker and whether the switchover to predominantly electric vehicles will require layoffs beyond normal attrition. GM has a program that allows excess employees at one location to move to other GM facilities with financial assistance to make the move. GM has also reconfigured plants to make the move from internal combustion to electric. The old Detroit Hamtramyck (sp?) plant that built my Cadillac Allante and my Chevrolet Volt, is now called Factory Zero and builds electric Hummers and Silverado/Sierra electric pickup trucks. The employees were offered temporary job moves while the factory was reconfigured, but many of those same employees are back building EVs.
I wouldn’t want to be a 20 year old seeking a new career in auto production, but I think most 50 somethings are pretty secure (though they may have to move to continue their GM employment.)
Mary forgets that the bonus is to put in our 401k for retirement, because all us new people they hire don’t get a GM pension.
Retired member GM need to repay what was given up
This page is not a “Negotiations” page. It is simply a marketing propaganda page.
Otherwise it would show what the company demands and offers are.
The website is a great idea.
Hey Mary. Please add a link showing wages and earnings for yourself and the army of top level leadersheep.
Also add an explanation of how you can justify your $14,000 per hour compensation. (I know that is a hard one).
Thanks from a minority stock holder.
If I were in charge of GM I’d fire every single union member and focus on the real goal of a business — providing affordable products to consumers. Unions are a plague and harm consumers more than they do corporate-leaders.
You are an idiot if you think for a minute that if GM had no unions at all that you could afford their vehicles . The employees could work for free and GM would still say they can’t afford the the labor force .
I’m sorry that my demonstrably true statements hit a little close to home for you. You must be one of those scumbag UAW members I was referring to. I look forward to the days union-busters become a thing again and we can do away with the laws put in place to protect people like you who think that you mounting some bolts entitles you to a pension.
What union member(s) hurt you? You don’t like health coverage, workman’s compensation, vacations, safe working conditions, retirement, and I can go on. You want all of us go back to working minimum wage with no benefits whatsoever, no days off, work in unsafe conditions and I could go on.
Found the solution putting that camel 🐪 through that eye of the sewing needle yet?
Retired workers hope everything goes go for them.
GM needs to go the Tesla route and clean themselves out of unions and their members. When, if ever, have you seen a union member willing to accept a lesser wage in order for their end product to be more affordable to the every day worker? It’s always about the leaders of a corporation, who even if we divided their income amongst all employees, would only result in a few extra dollars a year.
Unions are cancer and their members are some of the most selfish people in our society. We need a return of the union-busters in order to keep American companies globally competitive.
Tesla corporation never had unions. Many of the workers been injured on the job. You sound just like those people only see us as cattle not people. Where is your conscience?
Mr. Beans are you hourly or salary? I have worked for a non -union companies and if you think you give up money to help make them profitable do you think they will return that money when there product is profitable? I say hell no bs it is always going to be called that their products are not profitable! We are the way we are bs of ppl in America don’t care about the American working families and the American companies, but if you look at china and Japan they are raise to be loyal to their country first. Remember pearl harbor and we will never forget ( well ) and 911 we will never forget well America will forget that is what most Americans do!
Thanks for your anecdotal nonsense. I really appreciate the fact that my statements hit so close to home with somebody like you, as upsetting you guys was precisely the reason I express these values. Now for my own anecdote — I happen to work for a very large construction company that employs both union and non-union workers, I deliberately turned down job offerings with them that would of required me to be a part of a union, because I have pride in the fact that I’m not a scumbag who needs a babysitter to dictate my terms with the person actually providing me with a job. I also have a far better arrangement with both wages and benefits than those within the Laborer’s, Operator’s and Teamster’s unions. Those people have zero respect for the fact that these companies are precisely why they’re employed, not the unions and they often times overextend their hand and find themselves close to losing their contract with the largest construction company on our side of the state because of this.
As to your topic on the cost these corporations charge — hell yeah they’re going to provide a cheaper product, but only after all of the pro-union legislation that’s been passed on the state and federal levels gets uprooted and destroyed, which will inevitably happen as unionized domestic manufacturers are forced, more and more, to compete with international providers and non-union domestic manufacturers like Tesla who will be capable of providing these goods at a lower cost, as is already the case. You have this very skewed and ignorant grasp on what is the reality of economics and the simple fact is that with more competition and less arbitrarily laws protecting their racquet, the UAW controlled manufacturers will have no choice but to implement massive reforms in order to offer competitively priced goods, especially as they begin to push more towards EV production. Tesla, who is non-union, has seen significant decline in the price of their vehicles as their ability to control their business model allows them more flexibility in making adjustments to said model without the self-serving, slow-moving bureaucratic mess of the UAW and its rat’s nest of leadership’s approval on their every move.
“We are the way we are bs of ppl in America don’t care about the American working families and the American companies”
Providing a small segment of our working population with lucrative wages and unsustainable pensions, at the expense of the working-class family’s ability to save money on the products made by the union-controlled manufacturers, is exactly why I stand against unions. You don’t represent any more than 14% of the workers in this country and your numbers dwindle the more freedom people are given to choose whether or not they want to partake in a union.
“but if you look to China and Japan they are raised to be loyal to their country first”
Thank you for proving even further that you are more likely a collectivist than you are somebody who shares the actual values of an American — somebody who places individuals above the collective. You are the problem, not me.
Mr Beans your behind the computer comments make you worse than a troll. Your comments on here making you look like a monster. Walk in my shoes and better yet worked the jobs that I worked on. Work the setups that caused injuries on my face and body. I worked in all types of manufacturing union and nonunion. UAW membership job only one protected me more ways than one.
We are people not cattle that you can dispose of. Get therapy you need it desperately.
The negotiations will be focused on the EV manufacturing side of things. And yes there is a very good chance it takes less people to build electric vehicles. But the bigger picture here is when GM decides to lower head count it will not be because of EV manufacturing, it will be because greed and back room discussions on how to get one over on the UAW. What I’m saying is GM will do their best to get rid hourly employees and when the EV market collapse and nobody is buying any EVs , GM will say go figure …
EVs aren’t going anywhere buddy. The more realistic scenario, unlike your fantastical one, is that GM will likely be forced to give away to these unions, once again, as the unions only see profit-reports and not sustainability as their interests and just like before, the slightest decline in our economy will cause GM to buckle because they’re incapable of adjusting due to the inability of unions to adjust. They’ll once again come crawling back to the taxpayers to bail out their union-members, but hopefully next time their told to pound sand. Meanwhile, non-union companies, like Tesla will continue on as they have the ability to quickly react to market-conditions due to the lack of self-serving unions.
The smartest thing GM could do is purge the UAW from their company and adhere to the much superior model of Tesla’s, the model which has actually allowed Tesla to lower the cost of their products, ultimately helping the consumers (the people who actually matter), while allowing Tesla to continue to be profitable.
If you are a hard worker, but are against unions?? Maybe you’re a little jealous. If unions didn’t exist. We would ALL be making much less than we do, and no overtime pay. Unions set standards for ALL middle class hard workers. Big businesses make big profits BECAUSE we are working to help them. It’s only fair to get a little compensation for that. Don’t be jealous, form a union! When GM went through bankruptcy, we gave up a lot, AND went 10 yrs with no raises! GM has made record profits for 6/7 years now.. thanks to the employees.
You are an idiot if you think for a minute that if GM had no unions at all that you could afford their vehicles . The employees could work for free and GM would still say they can’t afford the the labor force .
I’m sorry that my demonstrably true statements hit a little close to home for you. You must be one of those scumbag UAW members I was referring to. I look forward to the days union-busters become a thing again and we can do away with the laws put in place to protect people like you who think that you mounting some bolts entitles you to a pension.
Which UAW member(s) hurt you? I want names and titles. Or you just one of those monsters that just want to bully somebody you think is an easy target.
I bet any sort of money you think we make and get a lot more than we actually do. When I first started out (as a temp) I had multiple jobs to make ends meet. One of my non union job managers ask “why you need to have a 2nd job you make way over $100k a year?” I started laughing in his faces and said “Who lied to you?” He said that what his “dad make when he work as one of the executives.” I laughed at him again, “Yes executives not the actual people on the line.” He walked away with his tail between his legs and cut my days and every day I worked I get sent home early (worked less than 2 hours) because of “cost”Non union he can do that. I had to sell everything I could just to make ends meet. Last contract temp didn’t get health coverage. From that manager doing that to me almost cost me my life because of hospital neglect because of me not having no health coverage. I was a temp for 3 years before I got hired in and have health coverage.
You have no clue what we UAW members been through in our lives. You have no clue what good unions done for many, union and non union people. UAW and other unions are perfect, but they are better to have than being non union.
It be beyond amazing we don’t need unions in this world to have safe work environment where we all can prosper. But we don’t live in That world. There’s too many monsters in this world.