GM auto workers in the. I be to get it out right now. I want bring together wages and benefits for all workers but what that means is different in different industries and positions within those industries. Making cars has become an automated process and with every affect that becomes automated we anticipate that the quality will go up and work compel numbers to go down. Seems simple but is it? The current UAW contract has a protection clause in it that allows GM to automate the assembly line but here’s the kicker; they still undergo to pay the worker whose job was automated full pay and benefits. I’m not sure how you run a business profitably with contracts like that. It is also common knowledge that fork displace drivers in the UAW alter more than $100,000 a year. I would say if you told me $40,000 plus benefits I might not flinch but $100,000? The add up Lawyer and Doctor make around that figure. What’s wrong with that picture? In addition. GM’s “non-productive” payroll is creeping up to an unsustainable number and at some inform paying populate that don’t produce ordain put you out of business. This is not France. The program must end. There are two parties responsible here; the management that is accountable for allowing wages and benefits to get so out of whack with their competitors and the union that seems to think that GM is in business to subsidize the entire population of Michigan and guarantee a secure and comfortable lifestyle. GM needs to send a message to the younger generation that manual labor jobs are shrinking and education is a must in request to transition from a labor intensive economy to an information based one. What the current generation’s parents undergo made by working at GM is no longer sustainable and the jobs will be more technical than physical. The days of $100,000 lift lift drivers are over and if your job is automated you need to look for other employment. The UAW needs to understand these are good jobs at good wages but there are other hosts in this world that have labor forces willing to bring home the bacon for half that. It is not a threat it is reality. The alternative is GM will be forced to move and close all of its facilities to more accommodating locations. It is exceed to work for $60,000 than to have no job at all. The UAW and GM should be in this together. It is in both parties interest to bring home the bacon together. It is not us and them just us. We can compete with lacquer and others if we work together. Just because it is the way it has always been done doesn’t mean it will always be done this way. UAW gratify be smart and work with GM because in most American’s minds you already undergo a pretty good package in hand. You ordain not get a huge be of support for more. Those of us without union representation have little sympathy for greed. We also have little sympathy for bad management. What we would desire to see is a broach that pays productive workers fairly and makes GM a competitive player in the world auto market. Just a thought…
3 Mistakes:1)The leadership represents the union and voted to strike. Are you saying if there was a vote the rank and register would have voted not to strike? According to the story 73,000 workers walked off the job. Not sure why it matters?2)There were stories in the local Detroit press about the wage. 90K fully loaded for a forklift driver comfort makes the point3)Lawyers average under $90K but I will adjust the doctor add up to $150,000 but many family practitioners make less based on location. Still the wages for the work need adjustment. Longevity has value but I think most populate accept auto workers make much more than add up workers in similar positions outside the auto industry. The point is they need to be reasonable and work together or the entire US economy and Michigan specifically lose.
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