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10 thoughts on “UAW points to CEO pay raises to justify its wage demands

    1. What’s telling is the vast increase in the pay ratio over my lifetime (I was born before 1965). That ever-increasing gap between top and bottom at almost every major corporation hardly constitutes “Marxist drivel”…it’s real.

      It’s real, and it’s also why populist candidates (even the one claiming to be a billionaire) get traction with working-class voters. They’re correctly asserting that the system that excessively rewards the top management cheats them out of middle-class wages.

    2. John M.
      + 1

      Just curious,
      1). How many people is the UAW worker responsible for besides himself? Easy answer! ZERO
      2). The average UAW worker is not responsible for tens of thousands of employees or hundreds of billions of dollars in assets.
      3). Is the average UAW employee held accountable to the share holders that
      own the company. NO!
      4). You could take away the entire pay of the CEO and divide it by the number
      of employees and it wouldn’t amount to much at all.

      Last we know why the Biden Administration is squarely on the side of unions.
      Because the unions are the largest or second largest contributors to the
      Dem Party.

    3. There not saying that the CEO shouldn’t get paid more, they are just pointing out if CEO’s pay can go up by 40%, there is justification for not expanding the already huge pay gap, and raise workers wages accordingly. Plus, you have to look record profits raked, and still wonder why the workers don’t get more of that since they were the ones acutely making the products.

    4. Dan +1
      Maybe some of these people are high paid corporate executives commenting? Try to support a family on $16 an hour and let me know how that works out. The middle class is disappearing and it’s sad.

    5. Dan M.

      You wonder why all the auto manufacturers and suppliers have been locating
      in the right to work States??? The bulk of them locating in the south.It’s because of the UWA entitlement mentality

      Should a guy pushing a broom make as much as a doctor?? Obviously not.
      Thevteasons are obvious.

    6. Keith S.

      I’ve did the blue collar physical labor jobs for several decades. Lifting, pushing,
      and pulling heavy equipment on the truck docks in the blazing heat and freezing cold day in and day out.
      We made the union pay wages without the union protections in a very tough working jEnvironment. I mean in a tough working environment.
      **. In that entire time, NEVER once did I ever worry about what the CEO or what they Plant manager was making. ***.

      So please don’t lecture!

    1. Try to track here. The comparison would be with the Stadium Manager who runs the venue, not the performers. I’m sure that the stadium manager doesn’t make 382 times what the cleaning crew or concession cashiers make. I’m also sure the CEO of my organization doesn’t make 382 times the lowest wage in the organization, either.

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