UAW Could Strike Across All Big Three Manufacturers
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A strike might be carried out simultaneously at all of the Big Three or Detroit Three automakers – GM, Ford, and Stellantis – for the first time in history if the United Auto Workers union or UAW carries through on its threat to call a work halt if its demands aren’t met.
Bloomberg reports the aggressive new UAW president, Shawn Fain, describes his own demands as “audacious,” but also states the union is at “war” with the three major car companies. A triple strike could occur if union demands aren’t met by September 14th, Fain says.
At a time when polls show increasing support for labor unions among the American people, the UAW has a list of significant demands. It expects the Big Three to pony up a 46 percent boost to pay while cutting the work week to 32 hours. Unionization of EV facilities is another key demand, as is restoration of pensions and health benefits cut during the “Great Recession” and never restored.
Fain notes that many workers across the economy received their salaries while working from home, while auto workers were expected to take on the pandemic’s dangers in the workplace. The automakers raked in record-breaking profits while giving workers a pair of 3 percent raises during the past four years, less than the inflation rate.
Fain, who has also taken on the role of UAW reformer following corruption cases involving earlier leadership, says there is “a horrible history in this union of setting expectations low and settling lower” to which he added “those days are over.” He says the union will not budge on its demands or on the potential triple strike, declaring “the deadline is the deadline.”
From the other perspective, Fain’s approach amounts to “promising the sun, the moon, the Earth and the stars to people who are, frankly, easily impressed” according to consultant Johan de Nysschen. He added that “even if he succeeds, his members still lose because the car companies will go bankrupt,” echoing claims that GM and the other automakers would incur $80 billion in extra costs if they met UAW demands.
The UAW has courted political assistance in resolving the dispute with GM and the other big automakers. So far, its efforts to prompt government intervention have brought only generalized calls for fairness from the Biden administration, while presidential hopeful Donald Trump has attempted to gain favor with the union by blasting Biden’s EV policies.
If a large ten-day strike, including a strike at all three of the big Detroit carmakers, does happen, some analysts claim the economic impact could exceed $5 billion.
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32 hour work week and a pay increase. What a joke.
Yep and they wonder why we buy alternative company cars domestically made or foreign and how a car factory base in SC started. Should we all love just a 32hr week. Reminds me of the 6 week vacation europeans got for me company on day 1 while it took me 25 years to get the same.
It’s called bargaining. If you want a real laugh take a look at what auto executives make.
They will end up loosing in this deal. You can’t get much from companies laying off thousands of white collar workers to pay for forced EV programs they really don’t want.
More than half the current workforce has started after the 2007 contract. We are the ones who want our fair share. The companies rode us to historical profits and historical sales. They’ve sold less models, and sold more vehicles at higher profits. Even the non-union automaker’s sell their vehicles at the same prices and don’t make the same profits as the big 3 do. This being competitive stuff is nonsense just based on that alone. Tesla only posts worldwide sales and worldwide profits, they pretend they are better than traditional automaker’s while paying the lowest wages in the entire industry and rooting for their boss who happens to be the richest man in the world, talk about being brainwashed. We get $500/wk this time and can make up the rest of our wages working almost anywhere else. Everywhere is hiring. This may be our best shot. This will not cost the companies $80b of anything. Once everything is built, the plants and battery assembly plants, and all the components for the EVs, these companies will be raking in the money. They’ve slowly upped prices to test the market. The average car price now is $44k, this is letting them know where the margins will be on EVs. We will win this contract
You forget to mention your record profit sharing checks that you’ve been receiving.
Well, push for that 40% increase and 32 hour work week. Then let us know what you’ll do for work after your employers go bankrupt.
You’re acting like the gravy train is permenant. It’s not. You made out with the profit sharing just like they made out. As the gravy train slows, the record profits will too.
Let’s not pretend like there is any high level of pride coming out of these auto plants. These actions just further push out sourcing and automated processes.
What you miss is profits are being plowed into EV investment for the future.
No one has made money yet not has it been proven EV cost will describe soon with increased sales.
You do realize that if you go to 32 hours you may just kiss or goodbye. They can add another shift at the normal rate and cost you your OT.
UAWant, they will only be raking in the in the money as you say if the people buy these pieces of junk. I hang around a Chevy dealership a lot trying to get my piece of junk back and I see three Bolt’s that have not moved for months in the service lot torn apart. Nothing will change with the quality of the builds.
Just because a company makes profits does not mean employees are owed some percent of it ASSUMING they are making decent wages already and good benefits. This seems extensive…32hr week REALLY?
manjunk, its ok for ceos to get 300% increases and the bottom to keep getting crumbs. Half the time these guys suck at there jobs get huge stock buyouts and the little guy gets $hit its our turn to fight back enough is enough.
UAWant – I hope the UAW gets everything they are asking for and we see where this leads. But, don’t think for a minute that GM is capable of making a profitable BEV in the US before 2030 regardless of all of the ‘free’ government money. Tesla only sells 2 volume models that are profitable, but both are top 10 sellers globally (1H 2023 – #1 Model Y: 427,524 and #10 Model 3: 226,409) enabling them to profit from vast economies of scale – GM may have 30 ish BEVs coming, but they will be low volume and regional sellers. The ONLY reason GM is profitable at all is due to their full size trucks which combined (Silverado+Sierra) to sell 411,299 in 1H 2023 which places them at #2 globally (#5 Silverado alone) just slightly ahead of the Corolla (410,732). Not many will line up for a $100k+ BEV work truck when CAFE standards become untenable and squeeze the cash cow. Ford is in the same boat. So, get what you can while the ride lasts.
Quick oberservation. Wouldn’t a coordinated strike backfire miserably? Isn’t the point of a strike to apply pressure to one auto maker while the others gobble up their their would be sales, thus forcing them to the negotiating table? All three striking at once would recreate the 2020 lockdown situations where automakers wouldn’t need to keep up with
demand and would be able to demand high markups. Who would have thought the unions would bust themselves up 😏 first the ruined Detroit, now the commit suic ide
Automaker’s don’t add markups, the dealer franchise’s do. Every car built is already sold to a dealer or fleet customer.
No, they just cancel all incentives and low interest financing.
Didn’t know there was Soo many GM management reader’s on here, lmao. Let’s start replying to you crybabies then. The UAW will always be apart of the big 3, the union isn’t going anywhere. All factories have openings. The companies can’t even hire anymore, nobody is beating down their door to work in manufacturing. So, they can’t get rid of the workers they have. The companies have suspended drug testing and took away the old referral system back in 2015 when they failed to get enough people who want this kind of work. Secondly, the companies are not going to move products out of the US or north America. They have barely put a dime of their own money into the EV transition. With federal, state, and local tax breaks, government loans with no time table or even promise to repay them back. The taxpayers are funding this transition. Ford just received a $10b loan with no strings attached, just a few months ago. The companies have been using their cash for share buybacks, that is their biggest expenditure of the last 7yrs. The uaw members don’t do anything but build what’s given to them, labor cost is currently at under $1000 per vehicle produced. All the profits come from north America, they aren’t making much of anything in China or any other country. KIA is currently starting their workers at a higher wage of $24/hr, same with Nissan and Volkswagen. The struggle to find workers for this type of work is real. Cars must be made here in North America to qualify for the tax incentives, they ain’t going anywhere. If you want better designs and quality of the vehicles that the big 3 make, then talk to them. We aren’t in charge of those decisions. We come in, do our jobs, build these vehicles and are forced into all this mandatory overtime. People come in and start working these hours, and they are walking right out to another job. So for all you salary workers, you are replaceable, and that bothers you to the point you cry about regular American people, absolutely more diverse than mostly white men management, getting a bigger piece of the pie and having say in their work, go cry in you’re wives laps
Less than a 1/3 of the workers at GM or Ford could even possibly do the job execs do. You think they work a 40 hour week? They don’t they constantly work. I worked for a small business for 25 years and the owner worked all the time. Yes they make good money but they are always working on vacation, when sick. Also because it has shareholder those are the ones that give the execs the pay.
The union are just coming in strong to get something better. If these cars came out of the factory perfect then maybe the money could be justified. When don’t put a bolt on tightly, don’t align a door right, that is on the workers. The unions are playing tough but unskilled labor should not be making more than skilled labor.
Let’s see… The big 3 CEOs, what can be said. Stellantis absolutely ignoring the switch to EVs, creating as many gas guzzlers as possible. Ford, had a chance to buy Tesla before they started building cars, and whiffed. And just like GM, telling everyone how much they are all in on EVs but still creating gas hogs. Both waited till 2021 to go all in on EVs, while simultaneously suing California for not wanting to sell gas cars. Mary dumbass Barra saying in an interview how she doesn’t drive an EV because she lives in Michigan, on live television. They are props. Mary Barra there to put out a woman, a soft face, to the public after bankruptcy. Farley, a moron Toyota flunky, but everyone loved his cousin Chris. Stellantis is still living off products developed under Marchionne, the genius who turned that company around. They have zero future out of all the big 3
Thats funny all 3 automakers putting up some of the biggest EV facilities in the US so not sure where your bad info came from and Mary barra said that because of the lack of charging stations but sure you missed that part.
She said that during a press release when they announced going all ev. The reporter asked her, do you drive an EV, she said no, I live in Michigan. Google it and you will find it. They are currently fighting the Biden corporate average fuel economy standards at this moment. That looks real good when you say you’ll be all electric by the time they take effect. She was also against changing to the Tesla plug, until they all caved
UAWant – I would say Farley is by far the best CEO of the Big 3 (not saying much) and is trying to save Ford while Stellantis and GM are in denial of the storm coming. All of their BEV announcements have been theater with no real plans/supply chains in place to ever produce meaningful sales. The escalating CAFE standards will destroy their cash cows. These are all problems the UAW didn’t create.
GM has been doing everything they can to build up supply, investing in battery plants, cathode plants, electrolyte plant, battery recycling, partners for the battery materials. While also bringing the Hummer to market over 6 months in advance and the lyriq also. Stellantis is the worst of them. Even GM is saying the future profits forecast around 2030 will be $20-30b for GM
I know GM is building plants, but I feel they bet on the wrong horse with LG and packs vs prismatic/cylindrical cells that are easier to mass produce. LG struggled to get the automated part figured out – GM engineers are onsite to get it sorted out. Meanwhile they are assembling them by hand contributing to the eternally delayed ramp of anything Ultium based. I agree Stellantis is too far behind. I’ve owned over 10 GM vehicles (most bought new) and still own a 2020 ZR2 Duramax, and hope GM succeeds, but I feel like GM whiffs on EVERY 50:50 impactful decision. Current management has resided over 10M vehicles sold annually to just over 5M now giving me little faith in their long term plans. Best of Luck.
Wrong on all counts
Another Rusky troll. Go bother some other industry in some other country. Or, why don’t you volunteer for the front line in Ukraine.
dont want to take your spot when your homeless here.
UAWant – I agree the government is basically giving billions to GM/Ford to ‘help’ with the conversion to BEVs and that they will mismanage it and ask for more. Their past poor decisions are why they are both just managing decline now. The UAW and mandated dealership model will only hasten their demise. My dad was a union iron worker and still only buys union made when he can, and absolutely hates every Japanese/Korean car on the road – especially ones with USA flag bumper stickers. My union experience was brief as a full time undergraduate – I worked at UPS over a Christmas season unloading trucks from 2-8AM. I wasn’t a union member, but did pay union dues. As being a former enlisted USAF member, the first thing I noticed is that it was organized like the military – white collar (officers) and enlisted (union workers) with limited contact between the two, segregated – almost adversarial. Breaks were on the clock and you had to drop what you were doing even if there was one box left on the truck – I found it to be highly inefficient with a pervasive us vs them attitude. There is no teamwork or pride in the work – everyone is trying to get theirs. You bash Tesla for its employees cheering on Elon while making slightly less per hour than UAW members, yet they seem to fill their growing factories. There is a lot more teamwork and comradery within Tesla than GM – Tesla management and engineers are onsite and always interacting directly with workers and welcoming their input – not is shiny towers miles away. I understand your frustration with GM paying a bunch of suits tons of money while you are the one building the stuff that actually generates money and you have zero say in what direction the company goes. Once this post-Covid bump ends next year, overall US sales will decline and more Asian competition (especially Chinese) will be joining a crowded market (Polestar/Volvo is already here). Wait until BYD/XPeng/Aion/Li Auto sets up shop in Mexico and starts selling full size BEV SUVs/trucks for less than the current Bolt. The Japanese invasion will pale in comparison to what is coming. The auto market is global and countries that cheat the best and companies that are nimble and efficient will win – Western OEMs are neither.
They won’t be cheering on Elon when he replaced them all with his little robot. When layoffs start at Tesla, we’ll see what happens. Right now he’s a growing company with a decade head start on the industry. Time will tell
Most legacy OEMs had a BEV on the market before Tesla existed – they had the resources and opportunity to push forward and stay the course, but NONE did. So, now Tesla has the first mover advantage and growing rapidly. Tesla is by far the most automated automaker already and we will see what role Optimus plays in production. But like you said, it is hard to find people willing to do car assembly – especially this new softer generation.
When you work for an automotive company, the plan is to want something better for your kids. You push them to not work there. The days of GM brats, who come in knowing expectations and how you put your head down and just work and get your 30yrs is gone. They wanted to hire off the street, and this is what these companies got. People who aren’t willing to do overtime and weekends. Injury prone crybabies, who aren’t built for this work of standing on your feet and putting things together for 40+ hrs a week
I worked multiple jobs in college including at a Firestone tire center where I fixed/replaced/rotated/balanced tires for 8-10 hours straight when I didn’t have class. That was hard/dirty work for minimum wage, but I kinda enjoyed it (plus I knew it wasn’t a career path). Now I have employees that can only work 3 days a week because its ‘stressful’ in an academic setting. This entitled gen has no idea what a stressful job is – the talent pool in the West is shallow.
I am now retired after 50+ years working my way from laborer to executive, retired then opening multiple businesses. 5 years ago I sold all my businesses because I could not get anyone to give 8 hours a day, let alone work OT or weekends. In my exit interview with one employee, she summed it up with one sentence that I will never forget “It’s all about me, you just don’t understand.” That type of attitude is one of the reasons why this country is in the shape it is today.
We’re rapidly becoming a society of entitled narcissists constantly offended/triggered.
Bidens’ bringing in busloads of replacement workers begging for a job!!
BTW…I THINK UAW PREZ…BLOWING SMOKE… Striking all 3 auto makers would put an awful dent in the strike fund @ $700/ wk AND allow the foreign car mfg’s some that are not UAW represented an opportunity to add to their sales…expect Biden to put in his 2 cents to get this thing on track for a settlement as it would already damaged economy that Biden has put us in!
You’re and idiot and a liar.
That’s why it’s stupid for all 3 to strike at once. They aren’t loosing sales as the big 3 dominat truck/SUV/Sports car sales in America, and often loose money on sedans. Toyota/Nissan/Hyundai don’t have the vehicles nor the production capacity to replace those class of vehicles. Nissan moves like 10K full size SUV/year, Toyota only 40K trucks. They can’t fill the gap. Sure the Hylander/Pilot will do a little better with no explorer/traverse, but that’s it! The big 3 can wait it out with a combined strike and offer everyone who leaves the union their job back.
Lol he is not bringing in replacements but nice try also the economy is not as bad as you all think its actually up slightly.
You must be a Biden supporter as he too said his Bidenomics are working. Really, I don’t know what planet you guys live on but gas rose .40 cents a gallon this month, interest rates up, groceries continue to rise and consumer debt is the highest in history. So tell us all why it’s not as bad as you think?
Like every other president has had to deal with everything cant stay the same price as the 60’s its called supply and demand.
Do you really believe what you just stated? You must be a fool. Our economy is in good shape and getting better. Unemployment is lower now than in the last 20 years. You apparently don’t know that the Federal Government has no control over gas prices. Interest rates are up and that is a good thing. It encourages people to save instead of going into debt because interest rates are low. Groceries are high because of greedy companies and inflation caused by an economy growing too fast. If you don’t understand how these things work, I suggest you back to school and take Economics 101. You apparently skipped that along the way.
You had to pull the race card at then didn’t you.
Unions will be the death of this country and strengthen inflation. Other countries will surpass us in manufacturing. But hey as long as you get what you want short term with a long term failure. Good luck with that.
spoken like a true anti union bum Unions have been around longer than any of us and they help keep the non union pay up but hey I am sure you know better, what will be the death of this country is the cancel culture people like you that dont like something because they cant have it and just want it abolished or the lazy generation coming up because that is how they are raised “someone else can do that your to good for that” mentality.
Talk about brainwashed. The world of the UAW is fantasy land. The union protects the underperforming individuals with little incentive to improve. I managed both non -union and a UAW plant in the metal working market. The difference in attitude and level of productivity is shocking.
Funny, the only downtime in our body shop, is the robots breaking down from not being properly maintained because the company wants to run them without any preventative maintenance. Management is their own worst enemy. Goals are hit or exceeded everyday by the workers
Maybe the goals were set to low from the get go!
Greed.
Greed is a CEO like Mary with her bonusses.
Does anyone else wonder how KIA swooped in and is builder better products at lower prices? Greedy management, greedy unions and greedy workers.
All leads to building a just good enough product, cut corners and a high price to make to make up for the eroding market share.
KIA has the worst quality of any automaker. They can’t even out produce us. They sell less vehicles and don’t even come close to making as much profit as the big 3. They even have the most recalls of any automaker in the past ten years. They don’t pay the same wages, benefits, or profit sharing, but their vehicles are the exact same price in each market or even cost more. Find another angle, because you have nothing in comparing Kia to the big 3
Thats the point you get paid more and benefits and still not satisified once its liveable. And like a vet you tug on people who will only buy American so called builds.
Sorry, KIA is on the rise to kick your butt. I have owned many GM vehicles over the years. I just purchased my second Telluride. Fully loaded $54K out the door. More options, better fit and finish, than GM, 10 Year 100K warranty and built in Georgia by non-union workers who enjoy working at their new facility. One last note: before I purchsed the Telluride I went to two GM dealers and asked how long it would take to order and build a comparable SUV. One said 6-9 months and the other said he doesn’t know because of the parts shortages. The KIA dealer told me 3 months. It came in one week shy of 3 months. Your are correct, there is no camparison.
You’ll need that 10yr warranty
Imagine paying $54k for a KIA… Funniest joke I’ve ever heard
UAWant – I agree Hyundai-Kia cars have traditionally been the worst, but their newer iterations and BEVs are significantly better. While they do have non-union transplant factories in the US (for SUVs to avoid tariffs), they also import cars from their unionized plants in South Korea. I would argue that their worst cars are the union built sh!t boxes from South Korea. Hyundai-Kia experiences strikes from their autoworker unions more than any other automaker, by far, resulting in a contraction in South Korea and expansion into China, Mexico, Vietnam, India and Slokavia. Hyundai-Kia is probably the best managed legacy automaker not named Toyota and is now the 3rd largest automaker globally. H1 2023 sales: Toyota-4,657,000, VW-4,448,000, Hyundai-Kia-3,605,762 . . . GM-2,967,000. I would argue that Ford leads the way with recalls, not Kia.
Let them all strike!!!! Eat up the UAW’s financial war chest, replace all striking workers with replacements and finally be done with the cancer known as the UAW.
Steve I’m thinking you’re a non-union worker but I could be wrong so what dog do have in this race? And why do you feel American uaw members really care or is interested in what rhetoric you are throwing. Maybe you should have gotten you a job in the big 3 then you will understand why we do what we do.
I’ve been on both sides of the union issue, blue collar and white collar. My grandfather provided for a family of five with a UAW GM job for over 50 years (between the 1940’s and 1990’s). He is the reason that I only buy UAW-built vehicles from the Big 3. That being said, I have seen and heard some of the union’s demands for this contract negotiation and some of them are just laughable. For the sake of brevity, let’s just use one example…a 32 hour work week. Really?!? You build cars…you are not one of the Avengers trying to save the world. Some of you tighten lugnuts onto a wheel, put doors on hinges, stick emblems on tailgates, or install headlights. What entitles you to a 32 hour work week over someone like a first responder, someone who builds houses, someone who builds roads or other critical infrastructure?
I agree that if you contribute significantly to a profitable company, then you should be compensated fairly, but the same union folks who decry corporate greed are at the same time yelling “gimme, gimme, gimme.” I hear talks about record profits, yet no union worker mentions the record profit sharing checks that they receive every year or the contract signing bonuses they receive in addition to their high wages. There is going to come a time where the UAW demands push labor rates so high that people can’t afford to buy the products, the products are moved over borders or overseas for cheaper labor, and people lose their jobs due to a drop in demand. Without dealer markup, my new 2023 middle-of-the-line pickup truck cost over $60,000. While I can afford that, there are not many who can and with contract demands like those that are currently being spewed by Fain, that will continue to be the case for the foreseeable future.
Nailed it! But get theirs and dont really care when you talk offline as it seems to be sign of the times.
tim, labor cost is 5-7 percent of that vechile the rest is corporate greed my friend thats a fact
I too worked both sides of the fence starting in 1969 as hourly, then a M/REPAIR apprentice, then Salary…retired as salary in 2003 ..could not take the attitude of Many new hires which were friends & family of UAW union officials . Productivity went down, scrap rate went up, absenteeism was ridiculous and salary folks were held accountable for this downturn..Upper mgmt would not stand up for their salaried workers and when a SUPV did try to administer work rules , they were chastised….a few years later, the plant closed and all the work performed there was transferrd. I remember working Sat or Sundays,Union officials were scheduled to work Pres. , Bargainig Chairman, 1or 2 committeemen, and only 1 or 2 would actually show up. Those labor hours were charged to productivity, which of course hurt my efficiency as for those days..then I was questioned why my efficiency was so low, after investigating the hours charged to my dept, finding that these union officials who were no shows , yet were paid time and a half or double time on a Sunday. I fought back..I was called to the Plant mgr’s office when I challenged their accusations of poor performance, I was told to keep my mouth shut or else..it was more important to keep local union officials happy…or blackmail as I saw it..after 32 1/2 years..I told my pinhead boss..a former GMI student whose father was a biggie in GM..stick this job up his ass..went to personnel office and put in my retirement papers probably the most satisfying job experience I had in the last 4 or 5 years of my employment with GM! I have no sympathy for the UAW..I did as a hourly union member…but after seeing how the union performed..from the other side as salary only for themselves..the hell with keeping productivity up, working together as a team..which was non existent for the successful operations of a component supplier!
32 hour work week is a joke cmon UAW for what you do you get paid well I am a union sheet metal worker and bust our ass everyday we do not sit on a chair play video games, take naps during overtime we work. if you get that pay increase you lose in hours lol just dont make sense, go ahead and strike the non union guy that needs to feed his family will walk right past you put in his 48 hr week and go home happy.
Some observations after reading the article and comments:
– I agree that Mary Barra taking a $29M payout not only seems unfair but in her case hypocritical as it is in direct conflict with the “Equity” section of her “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” banner that she likes to wave. Mary, why not walk the talk and do what the Toyota execs do which is to limit compensation to a much lower multiple of the average compensation in the company? How much do you need???
– Having said that, we all accept that certain individuals with particular skills (i.e. athletes, entertainers, etc) receive enormous compensation and yet do not contribute to the number of jobs, benefits, etc that a CEO like Barra does. Like her or not, the UAW is able to exist and make these demands because GM has been successful and at least part of this success is due to her and her upper management.
– Looking at the UAW, it is hard to have sympathy for the complaints about how the UAW “deserves more”. C’mon people, you are by definition UNSKILLED. While the jobs have to be done, UAW workers do not bring any skills to the automakers vs anyone else on the street. Further, the work rules and grievance procedures already in place protect people from overwork.
– Again looking at the UAW, if you believe that you are worth more than you are being paid you are free to quit and go to a higher paying job at any time. Or start your own business with those valuable skills. if the automakers are so bad, WHY DON’T YOU???
There is more to this than the basic ideas above, I think that a potential middle ground might be to significantly increase the profit-sharing amount (double or triple?) that UAW employees share and then to tie upper management compensation to a multiple of the average UAW compensation. At least the UAW and management could have a common objective. If something like this does not occur then I think that the current UAW demands will decrease the Big Three’s competitiveness which will lead to further market share erosion and steadily decreasing UAW jobs.
Profit sharing is the best model, it encourages efficiency and hard work and provides the unlimited opportunity to increase worker’s pay. It’s the best for all.
Toyota tundras, and Nissan Titans are the same price. So what’s wrong with that picture of their labor is cheaper? The price of the vehicles are determined by the market. One automaker takes the risk of increasing the price in a category, then the other automaker’s closely watch and see if it’s selling. That’s gone on for generations. Uaw labor is less than 5-7% of the vehicle cost. Where is that money going? To the dealership. They need to get rid of dealers. Salesman are making more than uaw members. Sleezy car sales and finance people
UAW. Aka. Unemployed Auto Workers.
All the negative Nancy us on here , just saying . The problem is that people are the armchair quarterbacks of this world . Some people may want to understand about strikes , unions , and how the great unions enabled people to be payed at what they currently getting paid . It’s your choice to buy what you want , but we all know that moving plants elsewhere will not have an effect on prices . We also know that if you run corp greed to be the excess you no longer have the middle class . You shoot for the moon and get what you bargain for in reality , stop assuming that something printed is the meat and potatoes of the unions demands . Such little intelligence about economics , world trade , government regulations on here , just saying . Where was that appliance , electronic , clothing item you just bought made in and how much did you pay for it . Arm chair quarterbacks on here , too funny , people on here wouldn’t last a day on that production line .
I agree that unions saved this country and gave workers a voice in how to be successful..both for the company and themselves, resulting in a more prosperous nation..GIANTS LIKE WALTER RUTHER WHO SACRIFICED MUCH..in bringing this to success…but like any thing…power corrupts…I dont think that he envisioned the greed that his union is now projecting..I started out as a GM Union member and I was proud as hell to be part of a group that cared for it membership…within reason..and had a goal of protecting employees of unfair treatment by greedy and power hungry bosses. Now the shoe seems to be on the other foot with unreasonable demands made by a new UAW PREZ that wants to make a name for himself and win the glory and praise of his followers…Yes POWER CORRUPTS ..BUT NOW IT IS ON THE SIDE OF THE PICKET FENCE
I belong to a WORKING union so I understand what a strike is for but these demands are ridiculous, 32 hour work week? 46% increase over 4 years cmon, A production line is not rough I have been there as long as you can sit on your ass for a long period of time your good.
We’re hiring, come apply for GM and find on job where you sit on your ass. You could hack it here bud
Tesla has it right — keep the unions away and you’ll be better off as a company. Unions are un-American — a product of the Progressive Era. Anybody who disagrees is collectivist-scum.
If they are going to have a 32 hour work week, that’s 64 hours a pay period, so 16 hours short of 80. Will they get paid for 80 hours, even if they only work 64, or are they going to take a pay cut due to working less hours?
GM has loads of money .CEO Mary Barra has received over $200 MILLION in pay in the last 9 years while GM cried poverty ,not this time
Whatever Bidum says, believe the opposite.