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ROTFLMAO.
Let ‘em strike. Bring in the scabs.
Go ahead and put yourselves right out of a job. Then it’s going to be too late to say oh we’ve changed our mind
BAHAHAHAHA!!
when they bring in the scabs and the scabs roll cars off the lines that flunk with the buyers, a fairer deal with the UAW will seem like a great opportunity missed.
Will they get 46% increase? No. Not likely. Maybe 20%, over 3 years.
Will they get 32 hour weeks? No, but maybe 37.5, a pretty normal number in the office world for hourly workers.
Will they get DB plans again? Maybe…but it will be a modified program. Not a pure, old fashioned DB. But something more than a 401K.
Look at the market position of a Ford Taurus today, its rank among new vehicle sales, compared to what it was in 1985, and it’s pretty obvious these cars “flunk with the buyers” already and have been for a long time. Has the federal government of Germany had to bail out Volkswagen (even after its most recent scandals), the way Obama admin did 15 years ago? What about Korea and Hyundai? Japan and any of its great number of successful companies? Heck, I don’t think even France has had to do such a thing with Citroen.
It’s quite possible that some of the lower tier workers at the Big Three still have legitimate grievances. But in 2023, it’s less clear if the source of those grievances are the corporate fat cats or people like Shawn Fain himself, “Sunday school teacher” demeanor notwithstanding.
Yes, please, get all this stuff so the price of new vehicles can be launched futher out of range for all of us….
Biden Voters unite!
NO one will be able to afford a car, nothing will be made in the US and all of these people will be out of a job and crying.
I think Fain should remember that in the hay day the UAW used to have 1.5 million members. Guess why they are at 10% of that now? Excessive demands that drove jobs overseas to more competitive labor and invited competitors into the US market. Keep it up and the same thing will happen. Joe’s union economy will produce the same results for other industries which after all the subsidies and foolish regulations run out will be faced with the need to be competitive on a global scale. Not a good result for the people who pay your dues.
Excessive demands from union leaders, as you noted, and not nearly enough of the benefits of collective bargaining that trickle down to the average union member.
I’m nowhere near as anti-union as I used to be, and I certainly recognize that one political party’s diminishing support for unions (except for public sector unions–they LOVE those!) is leaving a huge swathe of the working class politically homeless.
But it’s true that the UAW became untethered from a state like Michigan in large part because the due-paying members realized they were trading one form of venality and corruption for another.
These illiterate UAW scabs aren’t worth $10 a hour.
The average UAW worker isn’t worth what they are demanding either.
A pension, 46% raise and 32 hours a week… I guess in my “cush” office job where I get 3% (on the high end) per year, and putting in over 65 hours a week…I should be lucky? Seriously, 32 hours a week and 46%? I haven’t been able to purchase a brand new car in 22 years. Let’s keep pushing that out a few more decades.
The unions are over reaching.
As far as the two tiered wage system, it was the unions that pushed for that.